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Chromatographic Symposium Covers Many Topics T h e overlapping interests of a n a l y t ical chemists and those in t h e field of carbohydrates was evident in t h e 16 papers comprising t h e symposium on carbohydrate chromatography. Appli cations of this technique t o various sugar mixtures, carbohydrates in animal tissues, alpha-methyl isomaltoside a n d its homologs, and hydrolysis compo n e n t s from m e t h y l a t e d corn fiber are typical of t h e t y p e of analytical methods described.
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Frederick D . Tuemmler, Shell D e velopment Co., was elected secretary of t h e Analytical Section of t h e Inter national Union of Pure a n d Applied Chemistry a t t h e recent meeting a t Zurich, Switzerland. T h e analytical group m e t in conjunction with t h e X V I I I t h conference of I U P A C . Tuemmler, who is active in t h e
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his new post until 1959. H e succeeds Samuel E. Q. Ashley, General Electric Co. (Louisville), who held t h e post since 1949. Elected t o t h e Analytical Section's committee, in addition to Tuemmler and Ashley, are Ceroid Schwarzenbach, Uni versity of Zurich, and Roland Belcher, University of Birmingham (England). I. M . Kolthoff, University of M i n n e sota, is president of t h e Analytical Section, a n d R. Clarke Chernside, General Electric Co. (Wembley, Eng land), is vice president.
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lUPAC's Analytical Section Elects Officers
Emphasis will be placed on new or novel contributions, rather t h a n review papers, in t h e International Analytical Congress t o be held a t Lisbon in 1956. T h e meeting will be sponsored b y t h e Analytical Section of t h e International Union of P u r e and Applied Chemistry. Seventeen nations are represented in t h e Analytical Section. T h e National Research Council, adhering body t o I U P A C for t h e U.S.A. has appointed H . A. Laitinen, Univer sity of Illinois, chairman of t h e com mittee t o screen all papers contributed b y Americans. Pierre A. L a u r e n t of Portugal is secretary general of t h e organizing committee. Plans call for 10 sections dealing with microchemical, biological. ANALYTICAL
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