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Committee Reports HE mimeographed copies of all reports T were distributed t o members of the Council before the meeting but additional copies were available at Chapel Hill for those who did not have them in hand. Of those presented, that of the Committee for Accrediting Educational Institutions appeared on page 167 of the N E W S EDITION
for April 20. Suggest ions embodied in the report of the Committee for Improving the Professional Status of the Chemist were included in the account of the Council meeting (page 166 of the April 20 NEWS EDITION) and are not reprinted here. Some of the other committee reports follow:
Hazardous Chemicals and Explosives HE committee wishes to report that it continued its activities during the T last year as consultant to the Committee on Hazardous Chemicals and Explosives of the National Fire Protection Association. The committee reviewed and criticized a report submitted by H. A. Knapp, of the National Fire Protection Association, on the Life, Fire, and Storage Hazards of Common Hazardous Chemicals. This report listed about 160 additional items for suggested addition to the Table of Common Hazardous Chemicals, prepared b y our committee in cooperation with a similar committee of the National Fire Protection Association, tentatively adopted in 1928 and amended in 1929, 1931, and 1935. The committee has about 5 0 items under consideration at the present time. The fire and life hazards of each item are being investigated and recommendations are being made relative to storage and fire-fighting phases. In the case of many of the items under consideration, there is a scarcity of trustworthy information on life hazards. The committee has hesitated t o proceed with the classification of many of the proposed items until more exact Knowledge about them is available. The work of the committee is far from complete, and in view of this fact and that new materials of a toxic or combustible nature are being put on the market from time t o time and will require considérât ion, we recommend that our committee be reappointed for another year. G. W. JONES, Chairman
Formulating Proposition for Establishment and Administration of Chapters of Student Affiliates 1
has given further careTfulHIS committee study to the establishment of a definite relationship between existing groups of students in chemistry and the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, as well as
between individual students and the national organization, and recommends that a means be provided for closer identification of the interests of these students with the aims and program of the A. C. S. There appears to be a definite desire on the part of certain undergraduate chemistry clubs for a connection with the national SOCIETY which will form a permanent background of organization and a means
of contact with similar groups in other academic institutions, and with older chemists engaged in the practice of the profession. There is already in existence an informal grouping of such clubs in ten Middle Atlantic colleges and universities which has termed itself "Intercollegiate Student Chemists." Existing provisions for student membership in the national SOCIETY may satisfy the professional consciousness of individual students, but does not afford a channel for that sense of chemical fellowship which grows out of a community of interests in the same direction. Moreover, the minimum provision of an annual fee of $6.00 (provided the student member subscribes to at least one journal of the SOCIETY at membership rate
