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CHEMICAL SOCIETY for 1948.
Several additional symposia have been announced for the 113th national meeting of t h e Society to be held in Chicago April 19 to 23. The Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry will sponsor a symposium on galvanic cells and batter ies which i s being arranged by AYalter J. Hanier of the National Bureau of Stand ards, Washington, D . C. It is expected to occupy two full sessions. Glenn T. Seaborg of the University of California will be chairman of another symposium on the transuranium elements. H e will be assisted by J. C. Hindman and C. C. Katz, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, 111. T h e division will also hold a sym posium on aerosols, and will cooperate with other divisions in the High Polymer Forum and an organometallic com pounds discussion. The Division of Biological Chemistry and t h e fermentation section of the Divi sion of Agricultural and Food Chemistry will cosponsor a symposium on antibiotics. Information regarding the requirements for abstracts and manuscripts of papers to be included in any of these programs may be found i n the preliminary program of the meeting, C&EN, Jan. 5, page 31.
Chemical Society Publications Available
AMERICAN H e succeeds
Dave E . Truax of Stein, Hall & Co., Char lotte. Other new section officers are: Norman D . Doane of the Permutit Co., Charlotte, chairman-elect, and Francis K. Burr of the Monsanto Chemical Co., Charlotte, secretar3'-treasurer. Charles H. Stone of Char lotte was named to the Society's national council for a three-year term, with David F. Mason of the Southern Dyestuff Corp., Mount Holty, N . C , as an alternate. Laura T . Hall of Kendall Mills, Paw Creek, N . C , was chosen to serve as a member of the section's executive committee for three years.
Election of Two
Results Sections
At t h e December Northeast Wisconsin
meeting of the Section of the
AMERICAN
SOCIETY,
CHEMICAL
officers
were elected for the year 1948. They are: president, Abbot By field, Kimberly-Clark Corp.; vice president, Paul F. Cundy, Lawrence College; and secretarytreasurer, Merle Heath, Institute of Paper Chemistry. The Detroit Section announces the elec tion of section officers and councilors for 1948. They are: Geo. Rieveschl, Jr.,
chairman-elect; Ralph L. Seger, Jr., secretary; F . Leslie Bates, treasurer; and Geo. Calingaert, E. L. Henderson, Thomas H. Vaughn, C. F. Graham, A. W. Bull, W. G. Fredrick, and Leon A. Sweet, coun cilors.
Cleveland Section Holds Elections Elections resulted in selection of G. M. Juredine as chairman a n d councilor and A. G. Bowers as chairman-elect of the Cleveland Section. Mr. Juredine, a tech nical coordinator at Harshaw Chemical Co., has long been associated actively with the section, having served as coun cilor, editor of Isotopias, and on various committees. Named vice chairman last year, Mr. Bowers has been lining up pro grams and will continue with that effort during the coming year. Associated with Gerson-Stewart Corp., h e has been active in section activities for a number of years. Re-elected secretary-treasurer was L . L. Winter of National Carbon Co. Elected councilors for three years were E. A. Arnold and H. P. Lankelma, and for two years, M. J. Bahnsen. Alternates elected for one year who will serve with the councilors on the local executive committee are O. Grummitt, N . A. Lange, F. Ε . Carlson, and G. R. Fernelius.
Maine Group Uses Flask Rings for
Decoration
The Chemical Society (London) makes its publications available to members of the A M E R I C A N
CHEMICAL SOCIETY a t
a
substantial discount. For 1947, the price schedule is as follows: ACS Public Members" £ . s. d. £ . s. d. Journal per annum 3 . 1 5 . 0 . 6 3 . 0 . 0 . per part 7. 6 . 6. 0. Quarterly Reviews per annum 1. 5 . 0 . 1. 2 . 6. per part 8.0. 7.7. Annual Reports Vol. X L I V 1 9 4 7 1. 0 . 0 . 17. 6. β P o s t free. 6 A p o u n d is equal t o about $4 and one éhiliing'is'20 cents a t present rate of exchange. Orders, accompanied by the proper remittance, should be sent to The Chemical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W. 1, England.
Carolina-Piedmont Section, Election B. S. mental, Carolina has been
Amy Thomas, Marion, Stanley, and Eugenia Meltser, chemistry majors at the University of Maine, decorate a Christ mas tree with condenser coils, cork rings, distillation flasks, red rubber tubing, test tube brushes., and red alh^fg^eeri^n^le^utar models. if tie party was given for members of the student affiliate group and the faculty of the chemistry and chemical engineer ing departments of the university
Liles, head of research, experiand development work of the Aluminum Co., Badin, Ν . ·".'., elected chairman of the Carolina-
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