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AMERICAN C H E M I C A L SOCIETY Special Subscription Rates for Foreign Journals Continue
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The reciprocal arrangement between the AC'S and The Chemical Society ( London) and the Netherlands Chemical Society will continue in 1953. In each case a 10% discount from regular subscription prices is available. Chemical Society ( London ) rates to the public and to ACS members are as follows:
Journal of the Chemical Society Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry Quarterly Reviews α
Price to1 Public* £ s. d.
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The discount also will apply to orders ior back numbers. Back numbers of the Journal are priced at £6 per annum to the public ( 1 9 5 2 and earlier), back numbers of ' Quarterly Reviews at £1.10s.0d., An nual Reports £1.5s.0d. (Reports for 1951, published in 1952, and earlier years). Orders should be sent to The Chemical Society, Burlington House, London W l , England. The foreign member dues in The Netherlands Chemical Society, regularly 22 guilders, are 19 guilders 8 0 cents to members of the ACS. This includes a subscription to either of the publications, Recueil des travaux chimiques des PaysBas, published in English, French, or Ger man, {price to nonmembers, 2 6 guilders 50 cents), or to the weekly Chemisch Weekblad, published in Dutch, (price to
iioimiembers is 22 guilders). Both pub lications are available to foreign members who belong to the ACS for 2 9 gurilders 80 cents. Price to other foreign members, 32 guilders. Orders should b e s e n t t o Nederlandsche Chemische Vereenuging, Lange Voorhaut 5, T h e Hague. Before entering an order for a n y of these publications, a member s h o u l d con sult his local bank for the exchange rate.
Olin Chosen C h a i r m a n by St. Joseph Valley Section Stephen M. Olin, Miles-Ames Research Laboratory, Elkhart, Ind., has been e l e c t e d chairman of t h e ACS St. Joseph "Valley section. Dr. Olin served the section as chairman-elect and program chairman in 1952, and previ ously as treasurer. He succeeds James V. Quagliana of the University of Notre S. M. Olin Dame. The chairman-elect is Elton Huff, U. S. Rubber, Mishawaka, Ind. Helen Free, Miles-Ames Research Laboratory, w a s re elected secretary and Leslie A. Sherman, Whitehall Pharmacal Co., was elected treasurer.
Christmas Symposium on Flow Through Porous M e d i a The ACS Division of Industrial and Engineering- Chemistry has selected flow through porous media as the topic for its 20th annual chemical engineering sym-
Dan Mcintosh Chosen f o r Winheim A w a r d Dan L. Mcintosh (left) receives the A. H. Winheim Memorial Award from W. H . Elliott, chairman of the ACS St. Louis Section, at a recent meeting of the section. A. V. Schopp, chairman of the Award Committee, is at center. The a w a r d w a s established in memory of Ade H . Winheim, an alumnus of Washington University. The award is given annually to an outstanding senior chemical engineer at the university
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posiuxn to be held Dec. 2 8 - 2 9 , 1953, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Tentative plans are t o assemble papers which demonstrate the similarity of under lying principals of such diverse applied fields as filtration, packed beds or towers, sludge settling, and flow i n oil and g a s reservoirs. J. L. York of t h e University of Michi gan's department of chemical and metal lurgical engineering is program chairman for the meeting. Abstracts of papers to b e considered for the symposium must be in his hands by Sept. 19. Inquiries for fur ther information should be addressed di rectly to Professor York.
Thompson Elected Chairman By Northeast Wisconsin Section The Northeast Wisconsin section of t h e AMERICAN
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elected James O. Thompson as chair man for 1953. Last year Dr. Thompson, w h o is a research associate at the I n stitute of Paper Chemistry, was chairman-elect and program chairman; h e had served as publicity chairman
in 1951. James H. Dinius, chemical engineer w i t h Kimberly Clark Corp., Neenah, Wis., w a s named chairman-elect. Herbert T. Peeler, Western Condensing Co., Appleton, w a s continued as secretary-treasurer.
Daniels Appoints A C S Representatives President Daniels has announced the following appointments of ACS representa tives : Third Annual Conference of the Ameri can Association tor the United Nations, held in Washington March 1-3, A. K. Brewer, R. E. Gibson, Raleigh Gilchrist, Walter H. Hartung, G. E. Hubert, George W. Irving, Jr., Charles C. Price, Mark W. Westgate and Edward Wichers. Eighth National Conference on Higher Education, Chicago, March 5-7, Warren C. Johnson. Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Academy o f Political and So cial Science. Philadelphia, April 10-11, Thomas O. Jones and Floyd T. Tyson. The Inauguration of Raymond B. Allen as Chancellor, University of California. LOS Angeles Campus, March 2 0 , Harry L. Fisher. The Inauguration of Clark Kerr a s Chan cellor, University of California. Berkeley Campus, March 23, Robert E. Swain. AND
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