Change of Name Approved
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proposal t o change the name of the Dixision ut Analytical and Micro Chemistry to the Division of .\nalytical Chemistry has been approved by an overwhelming vote of the division members. We believe the change is a highly desirable m e ('ertainly it does not mean any reduction in the attention paid the field of microchemistry by either the division or this publication. It does provide a more all-inclusive name for the division and an opportunity t o serve better the needs of analysts in all branches nl il nalytical chemistry , We are now presented with a great challenge t o build the division into the largest, most active, and most effective division within the Society. The groundwork has been laid this year under the able leadership of Kayne A. Kirklin. Still further gains will be achieved in 1950 when Grant T. Rernimont takes over the chairmanship. What is needed are interested analysts in each analytical laboratory \Tho will solicit division memberships. In hize there are strength and the possibility of increased wrviw t o the profession of analytical chemistry.
nil1 act as the diret.tor oi thr tion until the tiirie oi the 1951 meeting. Professor Kolthoff is vice president, Professor Wenger of Geneva i s the European .ecretary, and Dr. Ashley of Pittsfield (General Electric,, is the American secretary. Certainly the establishment of a Section of Analyt~cal Chemistry will be looked upon as a very progressive step by analysts the world over and should encourage analytical chemists to siippnrt the 1951 meeting to be held in New York City. Most heartening were the informal remarks of Edward Wichers, chief of the Chemistry Division, National Bureau of Standards, and a delegate to the Amsterdam meeting, speaking before the luncheon meeting of the advisory boards of AXALYTIC XL C H E M I S T R Y and Industrial and Engineering Chemistry in Atlantic City last month. Real solid progress was made a t the union meeting in Amsterdam and the outlook for the success of the union never wa.: better, according to Dr. Wichers.
Women as Analysts
ORNELIA T. Snell of Foster D. Snell, lnc.. speaking before the Division of Chemical Education in Atlantic City last month, described the expanding opportunities for \yomen in the field of analytical chemistry. ARGELY as the r e d t of a proposal by I. N. Kolthoff at the 1947 meeting of the International The distaff side of the chemical profession compiled rnion of Pure Chemistry held in London that the union an enviable record during World War 11, particularly in (indertake the standardization of physicochemical data analytical work. It is encouraging to hear from Dr. rised in analytical chemistry, a decision was reached at Snell that representatives from a number of concerns the recent Amsterdam meeting to organize under the now visit the placement bureaus of some of the women's union a Section of Analytical Chemistry. cdleges, looking for new talent. Heretofore the. union has had only one commission The erroneous idea that chemical analysts (and we do dealing specifically with analytical chemistry--New not mean technicians) are somehow inferior to chemists Analytical Reactions and Reagents. The desirability in other branches of the science of chemistry has disof the step taken in *Im:.terdam need not be elaborated appeared to a considerable extent. As a result of this upon before an audience of analytical chemists. trend in the thinking of the profession as a whole, young The new section nil1 be governed by a board of men and women are viewing a career in analytical tn-elve, which will ha1.e authority to appoint com(.hemistry with more favor than in the past. mittees to deal \\-ith -pecific problems and TI hich is also If we accept Dr. Snell's devxiption of' analytical authorized t o offer it:. Yervires in the organization of chemistry--"It is the cornerstone of all chemistry, international meetings on analytical chemistry. whether research or some other seemingly unrelated There is a t rresent no analytical chemist among the aspect of science"---then there is no necessity for any ice presidents of the union and for this reason Sir Ian one, man or n oman, to view n career in analytical work Heilbron has been placed in nominal charge of this secwith misgiving, prorided, of course, the randitlate postion, hut C. J. Van Xie\in-enbirg of the Setherlands sesses the many necwsary qualifications. 1155
The Union Meeting at Amsterdam
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