jllne^m*^™' }  ^^'it^^^^ational  Congress  Applied  Chemistry.  307 
a  Constitution  and  By-Laws,  and  further  provided  for  25  scientific 
Sections  and  Subsections.  One  of  these — on  the  leather  industries 
— still  remains  to  be  organized  if  those  interested  in  leather  and 
allied  manufactures  desire  to  have  a  special  Subsection  in  the 
Eighth  Congress.    Sectional  Executive  Committees  for  each  of  the 
24  Sections  and  Subsections  have  been  organized.  The  task  of 
completing  the  working  committees  (comprising  a  total  of  about 
25  members  each)  for  all  of  these  24  Sections  and  Subsections  is 
going  rapidly  forward. 
The  responsibility  for  the  conduct  of  the  Eighth  Congress  is 
vested  in  the  Executive  Committee. 
The  responsibility  for  the  conduct  of  business  before  the  various 
Sections  and  Subsections  at  their  sessions  during  the  Congress  is 
vested  in  a  Committee  on  Sectional  Procedure,  which  Committee 
is  composed  of  all  the  Presidents  of  Sections  and  Subsections,  and 
tentative  rules  have  been  framed. 
The  Committees  of  Sections  and  Subsections,  and  particularly 
their  respective  Executive  Committees,  are  charged  with  the  re- 
sponsibility of  procuring  papers  for  all  their  sessions,  not  only 
from  chemists  and  others  resident  in  the  United  States,  but  also 
from  those  resident  in  all  other  countries  of  the  world.  To  the 
end  that  the  most  effective  co-operation  may  be  secured,  it  is 
earnestly  urged  that,  in  all  countries  outside  the  United  States, 
there  be  very  soon  formed  Committees  of  Sections  and  Subsections 
corresponding  to  those  established  in  the  United  States,  or  so 
many  of  them  as  will  provide  fully  for  the  interests  of  chemists 
and  allied  professional  and  business  men  in  such  countries  as  ma 
not  be  interested  in  all  the  Sections  and  Subsections  of  the  Eighth 
Congress,  and  that,  upon  organization  and  announcement  of  such 
Committees,  all  chemists  and  all  chemical  and  allied  societies  resi- 
dent in  such  country  and  interested  in  the  Eighth  Congress  com- 
municate with  those  of  their  Committees  in  whose  activities  and 
purposes  they  are  interested,  giving  the  titles  and  scope  of  papers 
or  other  communications  they  may  contemplate  contributing  to  the 
Eighth  Congress.  It  is  suggested  that  all  such  societies  within 
or  outside  .the  United  States,  which  desire  to  co-operate  with  any 
particular  Section  or  Subsection  of  the  Congress,  communicate 
that  fact  to  the  President  of  the  corresponding  American  Sectional 
Comlmittees.  It  is  further  suggested  that  Chairmen  of  Committees 
of  all  Sections  and  Subsections  outside  the  United  States  com- 
