3o8  International  Congress  Applied  C7it'////^/r3;{^'",;/,';;f'jy\'i'*'™ 
municate,  at  stated  intervals,  preferably  the  first  of  every  month, 
to  the  President  of  the  American  Committees  of  the  corresponding- 
Sections  or  Subsections,  the  titles  of  papers  or  other  communica- 
tions promised,  together  with  the  names  and  post  office  addresses 
of,  tlieir  authors,  so  that  the  American  Committee  may  be  able  to 
form  an  approximate  estimate  of  the  probable  activities  of  the 
respective  Sections  for  the  guidance  of  those  responsible  for  the 
conduct  of  the  Eighth  Congress. 
In  order  that  there  may  be  beneficial  co-operation  and  a  close 
affiliation  between  the  Eighth  Congress  and  its  Sections  and  Sub- 
sections on  the  one  hand  and  other  scientific  or  professional  bodies 
meeting  in  or  near  New  York  or  Washington  at  or  about  the  time 
of  the  convening  of  the  Eighth  Congress,  on  the  other,  a  Committee 
on  Co-operation  has  been  established;  this  Committee  will  be  glad 
to  communicate  with  any  such  associations  in  an  endeavor  to 
bring  about  such  co-operation. 
The  President  of  the  United  States  has  shown  his  deep  interest 
in  the  objects  and  purposes  of  the  Eighth  Congress  by  consenting 
not  only  to  act  as  its  Patron,  but  also  to  preside  at  the  Opening 
Meeting  of  the  Eighth  Congress,  which  is  to  be  held  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  on  Wednesday,  September  4,  19 12.  The  President  of  the 
United  States  has  also  shown  his  great  solicitude  for  the  success 
of  the  Eighth  Congress  by  causing  invitations  tO'  be  sent  to  all  the 
Governments  of  the  World  to  take  part  in  the  deliberations  and 
the  work  of  the  Congress.  The  chemists,  individually,  and  col- 
lectively as  Societies,  not  only  of  the  United  States,  but  of  all  other 
countries  of  the  world,  therefore  owe  it  not  only  to  their  science 
and  to  their  profession  to  exert  every  effort  to  make  the  Eighth 
International  Congress  of  Applied  Chemistry  completely  successful, 
but  they  also  owe  it  to  their  own  countries  and  their  own  Gov- 
ernments to  use  every  means  in  their  power  to  see  to  it  that  every 
interest  in  their  respective  countries  is  properly  and  fully  repre- 
sented at  the  Eighth  Congress  and  to  demonstrate  to  their  own 
Governments  and  their  fellow-countrymen  that,  in  accepting  this 
invitation  of  the  President  of  the  United  States,  the  confidence 
reposed  in  the  chemists  of  the  respective  countries  by  their  Gov- 
ernments has  been  fully  justified.  To  this  end  the  hearty  and 
enthusiastic  co-operation  of  chemists  and  allied  professional  and 
business  men,  and  particularly  of  societies  of  chemists,  and  of  allied 
professional  and  business  societies  the  world  over,  and  along  the 
