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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS FOR THE GOLDEN JUBILEE NUMBER Since the publication of the Golden Jubilee Number of the Journal of the American Chemical Society a few corrections which require to be mentioned as a matter of record have been brought to the attention of the editor of the Golden Jubilee Number. In the list of the chemists on page 5 in the group at the Priestley Centennial in Northumberland on August 1, 1874, the name of W.George Waring should be included as No. 69 in the key to the photograph. Mr. Waring’s name was not given in the list of those who registered a t the meeting, which accounts for the fact that he was overlooked. Mr. Waring wrote a long account of the Priestley Centennial meeting for the New York Times at the time of the celebration. He became‘a member of the Society in 1904 and is still active as head of the Waring Laboratories for Metallurgical Research a t Webb City, Mo. Dr. Marcus Benjamin informs the Editor that Malvern W.Iles, another attendant of the Priestley Centennial, is still living a t 5532 Brookdale Avenue, Oakland, California. Dr. Benjamin believes that a mistake has been made in naming three of the chemists in the keys to the Priestley Centennial Groups. He is confident from his acquaintance of the men that in the Columbia School of Mines Group (p. 6) No. 13 is Arthur Macy and No. 15 M. W. Iles; and that in the large Group (p. 4) No. 12 is Macy and No. 27 Iles. No. 14 in the Columbia School of Mines Group and No. 22 in the large Group may possibly be M. S. Thompson. On page 11, in the list of chemists who attended the organization meeting of the American Chemical Society on April 6, 1876, which is copied from the Proceedings as printed in the American Chemist for May, 1876, (p. 401), the name Prochalzka should have been George A. Prochazka. Mr. Prochazka, while attending the organization meeting, did not become a member of the Society until the following year. He is now President of the Central Dyestuff and Chemical Company of Newark, N. J. In his account of the early days of the Society Mr. Prochazka writes as follows: “At the time of the organization of the Society and for several years later, I was assistant at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in intimate association with Leeds and other members of the Faculty. I became a member in 1877, was librarian after Waller for a short time when business took me to New Jersey, preventing me from further active participation in the Society for many years. I proposed quite a number of new members in those early days, among them my old fellow student of Heidelberg and lifelong friend, William F. Hillebrand. There were only very few American chemists at that time-an advantage in a way. As a consequence, and as a matter of course, in their enthusiasm for a common cause, they became very well acquainted with one another. There is one intense regret-that of the old timers, only very few are alive today.” The statement at the top of page 16 of the Jubilee Number should also be corrected so as to include G. A. Prochazka. On page 164, third line from the bottom, Dr. Atwater’s first name should be Wilbur instead of William. On page 181, first line, Naumberg should be substituted for Fritzlar. A few letters have been received which call attention to the omission of important pieces of work by American chemists in the reviews of progress during the half century 1876-1926. As explained on page 9 of the Introduction, limitations of time prevented the inclusion of reports upon other branches of chemistry besides those contained in the Jubilee Number. The requirements of space also obliged the reviewers to pass over many deserving lines of work. There is need of preparing other articles upon the progress which has been made in the fields of analysis, apparatus, biology, constants,
250 pharmacy, pharmacology and other branches of chemistry in which American chemists have done excellent work. If the fragmentary account of progress contained in the Golden Jubilee Number will stimulate our chemists to complete the unfinished record of American chemistry by writing other reviews one important purpose of the anniversary publication will have been accomplished. C. A. BROWNE,Editor
