CHEMISTRY IN THE UNITED STATES. 
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York body became a local section of the reorganized society, 
and the Washington organization did the same. The old 
journal of the society was consolidated with the flourishing 
“Journal of Analytical and Applied Chemistry,” with the 
editor of the latter, Professor Hart, in charge. Other local 
sections were provided for, and it was agreed that the society 
should hold two general meetings a year—one in winter, the 
other in cooperation with the American Association. Thus 
all interests were reconciled, and the scattered forces of the 
chemists began to converge toward a single point. A strong 
society was created with a good monthly journal, and today 
it numbers over a thousand members, with nine local sec¬ 
tions in various parts of the country carrying on continuous 
work. Hereafter the summer meeting will be held jointly 
with that of Section C in the American Association, making 
both bodies stronger and more efficient; all opposition has 
been overcome, the membership of the society is rapidly 
growing, and the future seems bright. The example which 
has been set by the chemists may be a good one for others 
to follow. “In union there is strength.” In New York 
there is also a section of the British “ Society for Chemical 
Industry; ” and in addition to the journal already mentioned 
there is the well established “American Chemical Journal,” 
managed by Professor Remsen at Baltimore, and a new peri¬ 
odical devoted to physical chemistry, which has just been 
started by Professors Trevor and Bancroft at Cornell Uni¬ 
versity. Our chemists are now well provided with means 
for publication, and there seems to be no dearth of material 
with which to fill the pages of the three separate journals. 
The “American Journal of Science,” the “ proceedings ” of 
some local academies, and the foreign chemical periodicals 
also receive a share of our output. The facilities for publi¬ 
cation seem to increase no faster than the activity of the 
American chemists. 
On the purely scientific side the Government of the United 
States has as yet done little for the advancement of chemical 
research; but indirectly, for economic reasons, it has done 
