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one-day Pittsburgh symposia into a joint three-day meeting of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Pittsburgh Section of the American Chemical Society and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh. This merger reflected the "phenomenal growth of analytical chemistry,. . . and the growing importance of analytical symposia held annually in various parts of the country", according to Walter J. Murphy. T h e program of the Conference was planned so t h a t the conferee could attend papers of interest with a minimum of conflicts resulting from concurrent sessions. This early and continuing a t t e m p t to coordinate proliferating symposia and meetings was tried again in 1974 when the American Microchemical Society, the Association of Analytical Chemists Inc., the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, the Eastern Analytical Symposium, the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (SAS), the Chicago Section of SAS, and the Analysis Instrument Division of the Instrument Society of America combined to form the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS). Sponsoring organizations were to.abandon or limit their national meetings and to only hold local meetings so t h a t emphasis could be placed on the FACSS meeting. Symposia on varied topics have been gathered together at both the Pittsburgh Conference and the FACSS meeting so t h a t scientists can cover a variety of subjects without attending a large number of meetings. Those young chemists urged to attend local symposia in 1948 now get the same benefits from attending just one meeting. T h e problem of conflicting dates for geographically separated symposia of common interest is also eliminated. Of the approximately 30 meetings listed in A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y ' S
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Calendar of Meetings during all of 1951, a t least one third seemed to fit the definition of symposium, "a meeting at which several speakers deliver short addresses on a topic or related topics." Of the 67 meetings listed in just this issue alone (page 317 A), about half are on special topics. T h e question seems to be whether these special topics meetings, often still called symposia, serve the same purpose t h a t the symposia of 1948 did. Or should they? T h e large meetings (Pittsburgh and FACSS) are now with us as are an ever growing number of special topics symposia. T h e perplexing problem of where to go and when is still with the analytical chemist but now to a much greater degree. A. A. Husovsky
