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Detroit Follows Suit A check has been received b y officers of the American Chemical Society for t h e larger p a r t of t h e residual funds on h a n d after all obligations were m e t incident t o t h e recent successful na tional meeting of t h e Society in Detroit. A t t h e express wish of t h e Detroit Section, t h e s u m is t o b e applied t o t h e Endow ment Fund being created as a revolving fund for issuing De cennial Indexes to Chemical Abstracts. Support of this sort is highly encouraging to those w h o are confronted with t h e problem of financing t h e increasing de mands for publication in t h e field of chemistry and t h e whole science, n o t alone t h e American Chemical Society, is appreciative of this check from t h e Detroit Section.
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Second Decennial Index t o Chemical Abstracts
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No. 23
D E C E M B E R 10, 1927
Vol. 5
An Encouraging Growtli A comparison between t h e circulation of INDUSTRIAL AND EN GINEERING CHEMISTRY for 1926 and 1927 indicates an encourag
ing growth. I t should be noted t h a t t h e d a t a given below are based upon actual fully paid subscriptions o n t h e 15th of July in both 1926 a n d 1927, and if t h e 1927 figures were to b e brought strictly down t o date, there would be a n additional 7O0, giving a total of well over 16,000 a t t h e present time. Additional copies are printed for various purposes, b u t t h e figures here given refer t o n e t paid circulation. T h e trend of growth among corporations, executives, and others identified with management, technical direction, and research, are particularly noteworthy. The increase i n circula tion among professors is equally important, for many of them serve in a consulting capacity and are frequently the only ones consulted with respect t o t h e purchase of large-scale equip ment, machinery, and devices for chemical works. W e are also encouraged b y t h e increase in circulation among students, who will direct t h e chemical industry of tomorrow. W e are sure t h a t those who have in mind t h e welfare of American chemistry will share our feeling of encouragement over the showing indicated by these statistics. Classification Corporations (subscribing in their corporate names) Executives of firms a n d corporations : Presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, treasurers, and chairmen of boards Managerial : Directors, purchasing agents, general managers, sales agents, superintendents, directors of departments, chiefs of de partments, and heads of departments Technical direction: Chief chemists, metallurgists, chemical engineers, a n d consultants Chemical d evelopment : Research chemists Chemical control: Works chemists and laboratory chemists Professors of chemistry Instructors in chemistry Students : Graduate a n d undergraduate students Libraries Miscellaneous Unclassified Total
1926
1927
924
1,465
1,004
1,206
2,423
2,593
2,697
2,716
1,236
1,865
1,167 1,387 805
1,044 1,670 740
710 348 262 821
1,014 422 212 519
13,784
15,466
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Chemistry a t t h e Nashville Meeting A. A* A. of S, T h e program of Section C (Chemistry) includes several halfday sessions, mainlj^ on Tuesday a n d Wednesday, December 27 a n d 28, to avoid as far a s possible conflict with t h e Symposium in O r g a n i c Chemistry t o b e held in Columbus, Ohio, later in the week. Professor Lauder W. Jones, t h e retiring vice presi dent for t h e Section, has spent a considerable p a r t of t h e p a s t two years in E u r o p e and in his address will speak on t h e sub ject, "A Glimpse a t Chemistry Here a n d Abroad." Among others w h o will address Section C m a y b e mentioned a t this time Professor W . A. Noyes of t h e University of Illinois, Pro fessor H a r r y B . Weiser of Rice Institute, a n d Professor J a m e s Kendall of N e w York University. Professor Noyes will speak on " V a l e n c e . " Professor Weiser h a s chosen as t h e title of his address " I o n i c Antagonisms in Colloid Systems." Professor Kendall will give a paper entitled "Separations b y t h e Ionic Migration M e t h o d . " I n addition to t h e above there will be a number of shorter papers. Section C will meet with Section Ν o n Wednesday forenoon for a joint session on "Contributions of O t h e r Sciences t o Medicine." T h e headquarters for Section C will be a t t h e Sam Davis Hotel.
Gomberg t o Give Chandler Lecture a t C o l u m b i a F r i e n d s of Professor Chandler presented in 1910 t o t h e T r u s tees of Columbia University a s u m of money which constitutes the Charles Frederick Chandler Foundation. T h e income from the fund is used t o provide a lecture b y a n eminent chemist a n d to p r o v i d e a medal to be presented t o t h e lecturer in further recognition of his achievements in Science. Previous lecturers of this Foundation were: Leo H . Baekeland, W. F . Hillebrand, W . R . Whitney, F . Gowland Hopkins, Edgar F . Smith, Robert E . Swain, E . C. Kendall, S. W . Parr. T h e lecturer this winter will be Dr. Moses Gomberg, professor and head of t h e department of chemistry, University of Michi gan. D r . Gomberg's subject will b e " F r e e Radicals in Chemistry Past a n d Present." X h e lecture will be in Havemeyer Hall, Columbia University, on December 16, 1927, a t 8:15 P . M.
