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• Symposium o n The Glassy State will be sponsored by the Polytechnical Institute of Brooklyn, April 26, at the auditorium of the Brooklyn Law School. A program of four papers is scheduled. • Endeavour, the British quarterly scientific review published by Imperical Chemical Industries, will give prizes for essays on a scientific subject in order to encourage younger scientists to take an interest in the work of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The prizes will be presented at the meeting of the association to be
held in Sheffield Aug. 29 to Sept. 5. All entries should be received by the Assistant Secretary, BAAS, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W . l , England, by June 1. > A Statistical E n g i n e e r i n g S y m p o s i u m
will be sponsored by the Army Chemical Corps' Engineering Command at Army Chemical Center, Md., April 26 and 27. • Phi Lambda Upsilon chapter at Northwestern University, Evanston, 111., will sponsor its 8th annual meeting-inminiatûre on May 12. A program of
seven papers has been arranged, which will be delivered by graduate students of the department of chemistry at Ν orthwestern. • A Symposium on Analytical Micro biology will be staged by the com mittee on analytical microbiology of the Society of American Bacteriologists dur ing the annual meeting of the society at the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel i n Hous ton, Tex., May 3. • Instrument Society of America will hold its 11th annual Instrument-Auto mation Conference and Exhibit in N e w York City Sept. 17 to 2 1 . A program of technical sessions, clinics, and work shops will be featured. • Canadian Agricultural Chemicals Association will hold its 1956 annual meeting and conference at the Hotel Sheraton-Brock, Niagara Falls, Ont., Oct. 16 to 18. Convention chairman is A. W. Hutchison, Shell Oil Co. of Canada, P.O. Box 400, Terminal "A", Toronto, Ont.
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American Chemical Society 130th National Meeting. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 16-21, 1956. 131st National Meeting, Miami, Fla., April 7-12, 1957. Division of Rubber Chemistry, 69th meet ing. Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. May 16-18, Other Organizations American Drug Manufacturers Association. The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. April 30-Mav 2. American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, La. May 6-9. American Institute of Chemists. National Meeting. Hotel Statler, Boston, Mass. May 9-11. American Physical Society, Washington, D. C. April 26-28. Chemical Progress Week. April 23-28. Society of Chemical Industry, American Section. Waldorf-Astoria, New York, Ν. Υ. April 27. Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufac turers Association. Annual Outing. Skytop, Pa. May 16-18.
