chemists everywhere in securing legislation, in making contracts and in seeking improved working conditions or salaries. To make such a study ~- properly . will require the expenditure of about $20,000, and the active cooperation of a representative proportion of the chemists of the country in securing the necessary data. It is believed that one of the educational foundations would be willing to finance the task if seriously undertaken by the American Institute of Chemists.
former privilege of duty-free importation on scientific supplies for educational and research institutions; (2) that an international conference be called, the United States participating, t o consider the calendar question without being committed t o any special principle of revision. A paper of unuslial interest t o chemistry teachers was presented by Dr. R. A. BAKBR of the University. of Syracuse, N. Y., on "Building upon the High-School Chemistry Course." The annual research prize of $50 was Virginia Academy of Science. The awarded t o Mr. J. C. Street, a graduate ~ n i a student in physics a t the University of seventh annual meeting of the V i r. Academy of Science was held a t Staunton Virginia, whose topic was "The Time Lag Military Academy, Staunton, Va., Msv of the Spark Discharge." 10th and 11th. Sixty-five papers were The following officers were elected for presented, distributed among the different the coming Presidat. DR. G A R ~ T T .year: . sections as follows: section of astronomy, RYLAND, professor of chemistry, Univermathematics, and physics, 18; section of sity of Richmond, Richmond. Vn.: s e w biology, 13; section of geology, 9; section tary, DR. E. C. I,. MILLER,Medical Colof psychology and education, 8 ; section of lege of Virginia, Richmond, Va.; counchemistry, 10; section of bacteriology, 7. cilor, DR. L. R. GEISSLER. Randolph The followingresolutions were adopted: Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Va. (I) that the Virginia Academy of Science The next meeting will he held with protests against a higher duty on scientific Randolph Macon Woman's College, apparatus and urges the restoration of the Lynchburg, May, 1930.
Information on Aluminum. A group of four interesting pamphlets on the uses and properties of aluminum have just come to hand from the British Aluminum Co. "Aluminum Chemical Plant" is a reprint of a lecture given on the subject by Mr. E. T. Painton, a t the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, which was reported in The Chemical Age of December 1, 1928 (pp. 510-2). "The Lightest of Common Metals" is a group of interesting photographs of the varied products into the manufacture of which aluminum enters, ranging from flying boats and racing cars to portable typewriters and bathroom fittings. "Aluminum Bronze" gives a very interesting and compact account (76 pp.) of this interesting substance, dealing with the foundry technic, the influence of other metals, heat treatment, nates on die-casting, wrought alloys. etc. It is addressed t o those who are attracted to the obvious possibilities of aluminum bronze, and who fear its pitfalls. It is pointed out that we stand as a nation much in regard t o aluminum bronze as we do to many similar advances in metallurgical science. That is to say, while retaining a lead in fundamental research, we have left the practical application of that research largely to foreign enterprise, notably American. A number of concerns in this country have, however, done valuable pioneer work and established thriving industries in this material. The fourth pamphlet deals with "Aluminum Sheet Metal Work."-Chem. Age (Mo. Melallurgical Section), 20, 21 (Mch. 2, 1929).
