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Hapwood vs. Hewitt, 119 U. S. 226. Dalsell vs. Dueber Watch Case Manufac turing Co., 149 U. S. 315. Clark Thread Co. vs. Willimantic Linen Co.. 140 U. S. 481. Symington Co. vs. National Castings Co., 250 U. S. 83. Solomons vs. United States, 137 U. S. 342. Lane & Bodley Co. vs. Locke. 150 U. S. 193. Gill vs. United States, 160 U. S. 426. Heywood-Wakefield Co. vs. Small, 87 Fed. (2nd) 716. Houghton vs. United States, 23 Fed. (2nd) 386. Keyes vs. Eureka Mining Co., 158 U. S. 150. Massie vs. Fruit Growers Express Co.. 31 Fed. (2nd) 463. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. vs. Miller, 22 Fed. (2nd) 353. Magnetic Mfg. Co. vs. Daings Magnetic Separator Co., 16 Fed. (2nd) 739. Membership HE Membership Committee of the SOCIETY is pleased to report that the membership is still in a very healthy condition and again increased in 1938. A detailed statement follows: Individual members elected 1938... 2.447 Corporation members elected 1938. 20 Members resigned 1938 381 Members deceased 1938 110 Total members at end of year 1938 22,185 Members dropped for delinquency, December 31, 1938 732 F o r W . D . BIGELOW (Deceased), Chairman
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L o c a l S e c t i o n Officers B r e a k f a s t T THE Local Section Officers breakfast, a discussion of a number of problems concerning local sections ended in a lively impromptu debate on the question as to whether meetings of local sections should be closed to all except members of the
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Divisional Reports Agricultural a n d Food Chemistry HE Division of Agricultural and Food T Chemistry held five sessions. On Tuesday there were two symposia. A two -hour session in the morning was devoted to a tripartite analysis of the new Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by compe tent representatives of the food and drug industries and the federal regulatory agency, respectively. The attendance of between 600 and 700 overtaxed the ca pacity of the auditorium and the great interest in this subject was evidenced, not only by absolute disregard for personal comfort, but by the enthusiastic discus sion which unfortunately had to be termi nated because of the business luncheon of the division which followed immediately thereafter. At the business meeting the group of 71 in attendance suggested nine topics for future symposia. Out of these the Executive Committee has tentatively selected two for the Boston meeting in September—namely, "Plant Hormones" and "Clarification of the Term 'Nitrogen -Free Extract' through Improved Methods for the Determination of the Various Fractions Thereof." The afternoon session was also well at tended, as the Symposium on Industrial Utilization of Dairy Products appealed to between 150 and 200 people. The all-day Wednesday joint program on vitamins with the Divisions of Biologi cal and Medicinal Chemistry was par ticularly valuable and many of the papers excited considerable discussion. Attend ance varied between 100 and 200 during the day. The general program held on Thursday morning contained several papers of broad interest which were delivered to an audience varying between 25 and 65 dur ing the session.
F. O. RICE, Secretary
recent systems were discussed in detail, es pecially from the teaching standpoint. The young men who presented the 11 papers in the student session are to be com mended highly on the excellence of their productions and their presentation. Five papers on various problems con cerned in the teaching of chemistry in the high school were the outgrowth of recent activity of the division in this field. Three lecture demonstrations, on the liquefaction and fractionation of air, the oxidation of aluminum, and on dyeing, ex cited considerable interest. One paper, "Pictures of Acid-Base Reactions," illus trated the possibility of representing atomic and molecular structures in accord ance with the modern quantum theory. Some excellent pointers on the construc tion and use of lantern slides were also given in two other papers.
G. A. FITZGERALD
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In connection with a committee that has been formed to consider ways and means of helping small sections, Dr. Whitmore asked for constructive suggestions in ad dition to those pertaining to an increased grant from the funds of the SOCIETY. Dr. Lind and Mr. Ross discussed some prob lems of financing, conducting, and organiz ing local section meetings, and Dr. Howe and Mr. Emery reported on the touring service. The meeting was attended by 45 members.
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Abstracts of Meeting Papers r 1 F HE bound abstracts of meeting J. papers have become so popular that those for Baltimore have had to be reprinted. There is, therefore, a limited supply available for those who have not ordered. An increasing number are main taining sets of these abstracts. For those who may be interested, the A. C. S. News Service, 706 Mills Bldg., Washington, D . C , has on hand a small supply of those for the Rochester and Dallas meetings, but there remain available only three sets for Chapel Hill and six sets for Milwaukee. The price in all cases is one dollar per copy, post paid, money with order.
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APRIL 20, 1939 The divisional luncheon brought out the usual enthusiastic attendance. Although not a part of the regular program, the student breakfast, sponsored by the division, was one of the high lights of the meeting. One hundred were in attendance, fully three fourths of whom were students from various parts of the country. The delegation from Texas dominated, both in numbers and enthusiasm. A number of informal and extemporaneous speakers, both old and young, nelped make the event one long to be remembered. NORRIS W. RAKESTRAW,
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Gas and Fuel Chemistry HE Division of Gas and Fuel Chemistry held two sessions at which eight papers were presented. The morning session was given over to a miscellaneous group of papers covering coal carbonization pressures, the surface tension of coals, carbon dioxide reduction by carbon and the phenols present in low-temperature tar. The afternoon session was devoted to reports covering researches on the following phases of coal hydrogénation: testing of catalysts; kinetics of the hydrogénation reaction; application to the study of coal constitution; and the amenability of splint coal to hydrogénation. Attendance at the sessions averaged 40. The division plans a group of papers on the combustion of solid fuels for the Boston meeting, and is inviting papers.
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History of Chemistry EVEN of the 13 papers presented before the Division of the History of Chemistry concerned the major contributions during the last century and a half of Baltimore chemists and medical men (including Elisha D e Butts, Samuel Baker, John Richardson Young, Rembrandt Peale, Isaac Tyson, Ira Remsen, and John J. Abel), educational institutions, and the gas industry. Henry E. Sigerist, of the Institute of Medicine of The Johns Hopkins University, and John C. Krantz, Jr., professor of pharmacology a t the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and general chairman of the Baltimore meeting, were among the speakers at the Symposium on the History of Medicinal Chemistry in Baltimore, held jointly with the Division of Medicinal Chemistry. The historic mine and museum of the Kopparsberg Co., Falun, Sweden, John Clayton's investigations in the field of soil science, Lazarus Ercker's influence upon the mining and metallurgical industries of Great Britain during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and a delightful appreciation of Georges Urbain were some of the other subjects discussed. Throughout the day the composition of the audience was as varied as the subjects of the papers; the attendance was good, the maximum during Dr. Getman's paper on Remsen approaching 125. The unveiling of a tablet to commemorate the first commercial production of illuminating gas in America in 1816 and the seven attractive windows in the Enoch Pratt Free Library depicting past and present chemical history in Baltimore were pleasing outcomes of suggestions of members of the Division of the History of Chemistry.
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MILDRED W. GRAPPLIN, Secretary
Industrial a n d Engineering Chemistry HE program of the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry included separate divisional features, as well as joint symposia. The Symposium on Thermal Insulation, organized by R. H. Heilman and attended also by the Division of Petroleum Chemistry, drew an interested audience that entered into lively discussion. The session devoted to general papers was well attended. For tne first time, the division held a social program in the form of a divisional luncheon. As a special feature, W. S. Landis gave a carefully considered talk on "Fascist vs. Democratic Chemical Industry." The 35 members present were in favor of continuing the policy with a similar luncheon at the Boston meeting. The division participated in the Symposium on t h e Role of Catalysis in Petroleum Chemistry, and in the Symposium on the Application of Micro- and Semimicromethods t o Industry. Plans for the Boston meeting feature a Symposium on Industrial Wastes, with the Division of Water, Sewage, and Sanitation Chemistry. The joint symposium committee consists of W. A. Schmidt, Chairman, L. W. Bass, and A. L. Fales. A third consecutive Symposium on Unit Processes will be organized by R. N. Shreve, who will welcome communications from prospective authors.
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Medicinal Chemistry HE Symposium on Endocrines, sponsored by this division, was most enthusiastically received. Seven outstanding contributors to the field of endocrinology participated, with papers on the chemistry, biology, and clinical application of the sex hormones, insulin, pituitary bodies, and the adrenal cortical hormone. Perhaps the most striking feature of this symposium was the realization that enormous strides have taken place, in the last 10 years, in the field of endocrinology. These advances are mainly due to the elucidation and elaboration of pure hormone preparations by the research chemist, who has placed invaluable tools in the hands of the clinician. A somewhat similar type of symposium will probably be arranged for the Boston meeting. On Tuesday, the division cooperated with the Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in a Symposium on the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. During the Wednesday session the division cooperated with the Divisions of Biological Chemistry and the History of Chemistry, in Symposia on Vitamins and the History of Medicinal Chemistry in Baltimore, respectively. The Thursday session, which was given over to general papers of the division, was well attended, particular interest being displayed in t h e papers on sulfanilamide ana related derivatives, four of which were included in the program. Many other papers of an important character were included in the general program and emphasized t h e increasingly important role that the chemist has assumed in creating chemotherapeutic agents useful to medicinal science.
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277 Microdbemistry HE Division of Microchemistry held its program in three sessions. Twentyone papers were presented a t the first two sessions before an audience of 125 t o 150 people. The papers described many subjects in whicn microscopy, colorimetry, and microchemical methods were used t o serve the organic, inorganic, biological, and various industrial fields of chemistry. The luncheon of the division was held on Tuesday noon at the Longfellow Club with about 60 present. Chairman Hallett made a few announcements and B. L. Clarke asked for suggested topics suitable for review papers which could be
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Poiarigraphic, chromographic, and biological analyses were mentioned. J. A . Kuck, Secretary of the Committee on the Standardization of Microapparatus, announced that the preliminary report o n carbon-hydrogen with planographed drawings was ready for distribution to t h e members of the division. The third session was presented as a symposium jointly with the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry o n the application of micromethods t o industry. Dr. Lundell, of the Bureau of Standards, acted as chairman and opened the meeting with an excellent paper o n "Microchemistry as an Analytical Tool." His general paper told how the researches of Behrens, Chamot, and others in chemical microscopy near the turn of the century and of Emich, Pregl, and a host of other workers in microchemical analysis during the first 25 years of this century have emerged as indispensable analytical tools. Two papers, illustrated by photomicrographs, described the way chemical microscopy has found use in the rubber and resin industries. In the synthetic organic chemicals industry, certain advances in the Pregl organic micromethods have given faster and more practical procedures. A Kodachrome motion picture was used t o illustrate some of the microchemical and chemical microscopic methods which are applied in the dyestuff industry. The discussion of the application of microtechnique in communications research was limited to the specific use of the electrographic method in connection with the problems on metals. The application of micromethods to the pharmaceutical industry was the final paper on the symposium, and it described the many uses in the field of medicinal chemistry for which the organic micromethods were originally developed by Dr. Pregl. Between 200 and 300 attended this session. On Wednesday evening the executive committee of the division met for dinner and discussed some of the problems confronting the newly organized group. Several committees were appointed and the future policy of the division was outlined. GEORGE L. ROYER, Secretary/
Organic Chemistry HREE full-day sessions were given
