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Ν Ε WS Last Call for Meeting-in-Print Papersl A L L papers t o be included in t h e Fall ^ ^ Meeting-in-Prinf, together with their abstracts, must be in the hands of the secretary of t h e appropriate division not later than August 1. If. t h e complete manuscript already has been transmitted to a SOCIETY editor, send only the abstract to t h e secretary; please tell him t o whom and o n what date the paper was mailed, and what action has been taken. Any contribution t o a Spring Meeting-inMiniature also can be included in the Fall Meeting-in-Print. This is desirable be cause it permits distribution of the ab stract in the booklet that will be prepared by t h e ACS N e w s Service. Full particulars about this "meeting"
H. Lutz, Pratt & Lambert, 73-97 Tonawanda St., Buffalo 7, Ν . Υ . PHYSICAL AND INORGANIC.
Henry Eyring,
Frick Chemical Laboratory, Princeton Uni versity, Princeton, N. J. RUBBER. Howard I. Cramer, Sharpies Chemicals, Inc., 123 South Broad St., Phila delphia 9, Pa. SUGAR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY.
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Whitman Rice, 3033 Scenic Place, New York 63, Ν. Υ . WATER,
SEWAGE,
AND SANITATION.
H.
Gladys Swope, Mellon Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pa.
Amendment to Constitution The following Amendment to the Con
were printed in CHEMICAL AND E N G I N E E R
stitution
ING N E W S , April 25, page 704. T h e pro gram for the Division of Petroleum Chem istry has been completed; i t consists of twenty papers. The Division of the His tory of Chemistry temporarily is inactive. Some of the divisions are n o t soliciting papers, but will accept such of those which are submitted as meet their standards. The names a n d addresses of t h e secre taries to whom papers and abstracts should be s e n t promptly arc as follows:
SOCIETY is proposed b y the undersigned members in good standing in conformity with Article X I V of the Constitution.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD.
Paul Logue,
Monsanto Chemical Co., 1700 Second Ave., South, St. Louis 4, Mo. ANALYTICAL
AND MICRO.
Chester
M.
Alter, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, 688 Boylston St., Boston 16, BIOLOGICAL. Erwin Brand, Department of Biochemistry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, 630 West 168th St., New York 32, Ν . Υ. CELLULOSE. John S. Tinsiey, Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington 99, Del. CHEMICAL
EDUCATION.
Paul
H.
Fall,
Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio. COLLOID. Robert D. Void, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Cali fornia, Los Angeles 7, Calif. FERTILIZER. Charles A. Butt, Inter national Minerals and Chemical Corp., Box 69, East Point, Ga. G A S AND FUEL. G. Robert Yohe, State Geological Survey, Urbana, 111. INDUSTRIAL
AND ENGINEERING
CHEMIS
TRY. William A. Pardee, Gulf Research and Development Co., Box 2038, Pittsburgh 30,
Pa. MEDICINAL
CHEMISTRY.
Maurice
L.
Moore, Scientific Laboratories, Frederick Stearns & Co., Detroit 31, Mich. ORGANIC. Ralph W. Bost, B o x 135, Chapel Hill, N . C. PAINT, VARNISH, AND PLASTICS.
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AMERICAN
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A. Article V shall be deleted in its en tirety and the following article shall be sub stituted: Article V—Council Section 1. The Council shall consist of the President, the President-Elect, the im mediate Past President, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Secretary, the Treasurer, the Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the Editor of Chemical Abstracts, the Editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, the Chairmen of the Divisions, all ex-officiis; and the Councilors or their alternates elected by the Local Sections. The Council shall be divided into voting and nonvoting mem bers. All ex-officio members shall be non voting members. All members represent ing the Local Sections shall be voting mem bers. The President and Secretary of the SOCIETY shall be President and Secretary, respectively, of the Council, and the Presi dent may vote in case of a tie. Section 2 . The Councilors of the Local Sections shall be elected by the Local Sec tions in proportion to the number of members each may have as of December 1 of the* year preceding. On December 1 of each year the Secretary shall establish a base number which shall be used to determine the repre sentation of each Local Section. The base number so established shall be divided into the number of members in good standing of each section and the number so obtained shall b e the number of Councilors to be elected by each Section. Fractions obtained in this method of computation shall be con sidered as whole numbers. The base num ber shall be established in such a manner that the total number of elected Councilors shall be as nearly as possible equal t o twice the number of Local Sections. Section 3 . Each Local Section shall elect a number of alternates equal to its number of Councilors in such a manner that each shall b e an alternate for a given Councilor.
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Each alternate shall receive copies of all docu ments sent to Councilors. In the event of inability of any voting Councilor to exercise any of the functions of his office, his alter nate shall act in his place. An alternate so acting shall have all the rights and privileges of a voting Councilor. Section 4. Necessary traveling and hotel expenses of voting Councilors or alternates in attending meetings shall be paid by the SOCIETY.
Section 5. T h e Council shall have the power to initiate and direct the policies of the SOCIETY, except as to routine matters of custody and management of all property, real and personal, of the SOCIETY. The Council shall also perform any other duties which may be prescribed by the Constitution or the BylawsSection 6. One or more regular meetings of the Council shall be held at convenient times in connection with each general meet ing of the SOCIETY. The time of the first Council meeting a t a general meeting shall be set by the program of the general meetings, and the Council itself shall decide whether further meetings are desirable and, if so, shall decide when t i e y shall be held. In any regular session a majority of the Councilors or their alternates shall constitute a quorum. Special meetings may be called by the Board of Directors. B. The following changes shall be made in Article V I I : Section 2. T h e words "and to suggest up to four members of the SOCIETY for Councilor-at-Large" and the words "and sug gestions for four Councilors-at-Large" and the words "provided that no name proposed for Councilor-at-Large shall be so included unless it has received the endorsement of two or more Local Sections" shall be deleted. In line II the words "these positions" shall be replaced by the words "this position". Section 3 . T h e word "nominees" shall be replaced by the word "nominee", and the words "and four Councilors-at-Large" shall be deleted. Section 4(fc) shall be deleted in its entirety. Section 5 (6) shall be deleted in its entirety. Section 11. The words "or eighth place for Councilor-at-Large" and the sentence "If there be a tie vote for fourth place in the election for Councilors-at-Large, the tie shall be decided b y ballot at the next meeting of the Council" shall be deleted. C. Section 3 , Article VIII, shall be de leted in its entirety and the following section substituted : Article VIII, Section 3 . The Council shall have a Council Policy Committee con sisting of the President, the President-Elect, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, and six Councilors, two to be elected to member ship on said committee each year for a term of three years by ballot at the annual meeting of the Council. Ex-officio members of the Council and alternates not in official attend ance shall not be eligible for election to the Council Policy Committee. A Councilor or alternate elected t o the Council Policy Com mittee shall remain a voting Councilor dur ing his term of office on the committee. The
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Council Policy Committee shall have author ity t o act, ad interim, for and on behalf of the Council but only in matters concerning the internal affairs of the SOCIETY. It shall exercise in addition the Usual functions of the Executive Committee of the Council. D. This amendment shall become effec tive on the first day of January following its adoption as provided under Article XIV of the Constitution. Signed by the following (all members of the Kalamazoo Section) : Ε. Η. WOODRUFF MITCHELL Z I B N T T C. T. CALDWELL T. W. CONGER G. F. CARTLAND M. H. KUIZENGA A. V S R N MCINTOSH, JR. STANLEY ROLFSON Ε. G. KOLLOFF J. W. GREINER JARED H. FORD HANS P. ANDERSON A. W. SCHNEIDER R. V. HEINZELMANN .
D. E . WEXSBLAT LEON E. TENBNBAUM SAUL R. B U C CURTIS E . MEYER BYRON E . LEACH ALAN H. NATHAN SAMUEL EPPSTEIN ROBERT H. LEVIN MILDRED M. WBSNER HERBERT C . MURRAY H. F . M E I E R A. I*. CKNTOLBLLA JOHN T. CORRELL
A copy of the Constitution will be found printed on page 4S of the Jan. 20, 1938, N E W S EDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEER
ING CHEMISTRY, or a copy can be obtained from the Secretary's office on request if anyone wishes to study it in detail.
Patent Abstracts in Chemical Abstracts Beginning w i t h the July 20 number of Chemical Abstracts, a new patent-ab stracting procedure will go into effect. This new method of obtaining patent ab stracts is expected t o result in improved, more complete, and much prompter ab stracts of U. S. patents It is hoped that the new method and its advantages can be extended t o the patents of other na tions as time goes on. Patent abstracts will hereafter b e signed. In the past most of the patent abstracts published in Chemical Abstracts have been made at patent offices. Wartime condi tions in various nations, including man power shortages, have interfered con siderably with Chemical A bstracts' patentabstracting service. The new method will involve obtaining copies of patents and distributing t h e m according to subjects or fields among a considerable number of ab stractors according t o their special inter ests. With the generous help of J . W. Perry and Ε. Μ. Symmos, special "instructions for the Abstracting of Patents" have been written. Copies of this dozen-page pam phlet can be obtained b y interested read ers from the office of Chemical Abstracts. Patents are looked o n as a form of chemical literature and they are abstracted primarily for chemical information rather than t o bring out business o r legal in formation. P a t e n t abstracts are thor oughly indexed in Chemical Abstracts.
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Local Sections Elect Officers T h e Rochester Section has elected the following officers: Chairman, Leslie J. Ross, Eastman Kodak Co. Vice Chairman, John F. Flagg, Univer sity of Rochester. Secretary-Treasurer, Earnest R. Taylor, Bldg. 14, Kodak Park, Rochester 4, Ν . Υ. Executive Corrwiiitee: John A. Leermakers, Eastman Kodak Co.; Philip L. Harris, DistillalicurProducts, Inc.; Ralph L. Van Peursem, Rochester Institute of Technology. T h e Virginia Section has elected the following officers: Chairman, William R. Harlan, Ameri can Tobacco C o . Executive Vice Chairman, Clifford M. Smith, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Vice Ctiairman, Robert L. Riggs, Solvay Process Co. Secretary, Mary E. Kapp, E. I.
