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or until their successors are elected. Officers may be reelected, but, with the exception of the Secretary, shall not serve in any one office more than two consecutive years. 5. The Executive Committee shall fill any vacancies that may occur among the Officers of the Division. Article 3.-Duties of Oljiccrs. It shall be the duty of the Chairman to represent the Division in the Council of the SocieLy, to preside at meetings of the Executive Committee, to carry into effect the decisions and recommendations of that committee, to prepare a program for the general meeting, to presid a t State Meetings of the Division and to deliver an address to the Division a t its general meetings. 2 . I n absence of the Chairman, the Vice-chairman or Secretary a t any stated meeting their places shall be filled temporarily by the Executive Committee. 3. It shall be he duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a record of the proceedings of the Division and of the Executive Committee, to maintain a list of members, to send to members such notices as the business of the Division may require, to transmit to the Secretary of the Society the names of all officers and standing committees of the Division within ten days of their appointment; and in like manner to notify the Secretary of the Society of any changes of Officers or standing committee during the year. 4. The Recording Secretary shall be the custodian of the records, communications, documents, and papers of the Division. He shall have charge of the funds of the Division and shall make all disbursements, subject t o the authorization of the Executive Committee. He shall report to the Division a t its general meetings. 5 . The Executive Committee shall conduct the business of the Division and direct its activities. At each general meeting of the Society the Committee shall, as early as possible, hold a meeting to consider the affairs of the Division and receive reports of its committee. The Executive Committee, exclusive of the Secretary, shall be responsible for all expenditures not authorized by the Council, and shall audit the accounts of the Secretary previous to the annual meeting. I.
.4rticle 4.--iMeetings. There shall be a meeting of the Division a t each general meeting of the Society. Business effecting the organization (Amendments, elections of officers, etc.) of the Division shall be transacted only a t meetings coincident with the annual meeting of the Society. 2. The order of business shall be as follows: ( a ) Reading of the Minutes. (a) Reports of the Chaikman and Secretary. ( c ) Reports of the Executive Committee. ( d ) Reports of Committees. ( e ) At the annual meeting, election of officers. ( j ) Reading of Papers and Discussions. (g) Miscellaneous Business. The regular order of business may be suspended a t any session by the consent of three-fourths of the members of the Division present. Article .j-Special a?fd Standing Committees. The Chairman shall appoint, from time to time, committees of the Division to consider, conduct and report upon such special matter as may be delegated to them. I.
Article 6 .-Expenses. The Executive Committee may make an annual assessment of not to exceed 50 cents per member, to meet the expenses of the Division, including non-serial publications. .4rticle 7.-Amendnierits.. These By-Laws may be amended a t any annual meeting of the Division by a three-fifths vote of the members present, provided notice of the proposed amendment together with the
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text thereof has been sent to each member of the Division a t least two weeks before the annual meeting. Amendments, to be effective, must be approved by the Council and accepted by that body as not inconsistent with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society. These By-Laws presented were discussed a t some length by the members of the Division present and were finally adopted as tentative, in order to govern the meeting, with the exception of Article 6 which relates to the annual assessment. I t was decided to publish these By-Laws and bring thcm u p for final action before the Division a t the next meeting. Following officers were elected for the ensaing year: Chairman, H. E. Barnatd; L’ice-Chairmafi, E. IV. Robison; Secretary, G . F. Mason; Executive Committee, C. D. Wood, H. S. Bailey, W. & Allen. ‘I. G . F. MASOX, Sccvelavy.
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DIVISION OF CHEMISTRY.
PHARMACUETICAL
FIRST SESSION.
The first session was called to order by the chairman, B. I,. Murray, a t 10.00 A.M., December 27th, a t the McKinley High School, twenty-two members present. The Secretary reported a n increase in membership from seventy a t the beginning of the year to one hundred and sixtyfour a t the present time; and, as treasurer, reported total receipts of $75.00, total expenditures of $61.35, and a balance of $14.15.
Dr. L,. F. Kebler presented a reportfor the ExecutiveCommittee and expressed his satisfaction a t the progress of the division. The report of the Committee on Quantitative Xethods was read by the Secretary in the absence of the chairman of thc committee, F. 0. Taylor. The report mas formally accepted, and a motion prevailed authorizing Mr. Taylor to publish a bibliography on the quantitative estimation of mercury compiled by the committee. The chairman of the Committee on Quantitative Methods was authorized to use his discretion in the selection of work for the coming year, and the executive committee was empowered to make such changes in the organization and size of the former committee as seemed best. The first paper, on “Smoking Opium: I t s Manufacture and Chemical Compositions,” by A. B. Adams and J. M. Doran, was read by Mr. Adams, who exhibited a complete smoking outfit and a considerable number of samples of smoking opium. Mr. Doran contributed some interesting facts in regard t o thc traffic in smoking opium. Dr. Caspari, Jr., recommended the discontinuance of aqueous solid extracts of opium and prohibition of the sale of preparations of opium below the United States Pharmacopoeial standard of strength. It was pointed out that the aqueous extract had already been withdrawn by most of the pharmaceutical manufacturers, but L. F. Kebler expressed the opinion t h a t this would not remedy the evil, as habitues would still obtain opium in some form; and t h a t the only remedy was the complete government control of the sale of opium and its preparation. Messrs. Adams and Doran were given a vote of thanks for presenting the exhibit in connection with their paper. Mr. I,. A. Brown presented a paper on “An Improved Method of Assay for Aromatic Sulphuric Acid,” which was discussed by several members, and i t was suggested that, as the present U. S. p. method had been shown to be inaccurate, it should be replaced by some method such as t h a t proposed by Brown. “progress on the Work of Revision of the United States 1 Forty-fifth General Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, December, 1911.
Pharmacopocia” was presented by Jos. P. Rcmington and \vas followed by a general discussion of matters pertaining to the pharmacopoeia. S E C O K D SESSIOX.
W. 0. Emery presented two papers entitled, “Estimation of Antipyrine in Acetanilid or Acetphenetidin Mix tures” and
“Estimation of Codeine in Acetanilid or Acetphenctidin Xlixtures.” F. P. Dunnington presented a paper on “Somc Cnfaniiliar Facts about Familiar Detergents.” R. Norris Shreve read a paper on “Suggested Modifications of the U. S. P. Assay of Opium.” M . I. Wilbert discussed “The Influence of Patents and Trade Marks on the United States Pharmacopoeia,” and L. F. Kebler presented, in abstract, a paper by E . 0. Eaton, on “Estimating Small Quantities of Morphine in Mixtures.” A. G. Murray present.ed a paper on “Estimating Small Quantities of Nitrogen.” Other papers on the program whose authors \rere not present were read either in full or in abstract by the secretary. T H I R D SI3SSIOS
Chairman B. L. llurray presented his annual address on “Our Advances and Retrogressions in Pharmaceutical Chemistry,” and a committee consisting of Chas. Caspari, Jr., 31. I. Wilbert and R. Norris Shreve \vas appointed by the acting chairman to report on recommendations contained therein. L. F. Kebler then presented two paper:: on “Standard for Tincture of Ginger” and “Standards and Methods.” A. Seidell presented a paper on “A Bromine-Hydrobromic Acid Method for the Determination of Phenols.” These papers were discussed collectively, follo~vedby a general discussion of drug assaying and pharmacopoeial standards and tests FOURTH SESSIOK;.
The follo\ving resolutions were passed: Iiesolved, “That the Division of Pharmaccutical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society respectfully urge the United States Pharmacopoeial Revision Committee to change the present form of stating solubility data from the parts of solvent to dissolve unit quantity of substances, to the grams Lveight of substances which are dissolved per IOO grams of the saturated solution.” On motion this resolution was referred to the Committee on Revision of the U. S.Pharmacopoeia. Resolved, “That the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society recommend to the Committee of Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia (IX) the retention of the form and style of spelling the names of the substances now used in the Eighth Revision, and t h a t the official names of the nciv substances to be admitted be brief and distinctive.” R a s o h e d , ”That it is the sense of the members of the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the American Chemical Society present, t h a t in stating the strengths of acids in the U . S. P. they be stated in such terms as hydrogen chloride, HCl (‘absolute hydrochloric acid’).” The chairman then called L. F. Kebler to the chair and Chas. Caspari, Jr., presented the report of the committee on the chairman’s address, favoring the suggestion made b], the chairman and recommending t h a t a committee of three, including the chairman of the Division, be appointed to confer with the president or other suitable officers of the Society in regard to the connection which the Division should have with the publication of pharmaceutical literature in the Society s journals. This report TTas adopted. The chairman took the chair and the following resolutions
introduced by 11. I . brilbcrt wcre passed and referred to the Society’s Cornniittec on Patents. R e s o h r d , “That the members of the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemi3try of the American Chemical Society favor amending the present patent l a m so as t o provide adequate protection for the original invention of a useful article or process for making the same.’’ Resoleed “That \vc depreciate the issuing of product patents for substances of a chemical nature.” R c s o l w d “That ~1-c favor a literal interpretation of the present Trade Xark Registration law so t h a t names used solely as generic titles for widely used substances will become public property on the expiration of the period for which they arc registered.” The following resolution introduced by F. R. Eldred \vas passed and referred to the Bureau of Standards. Rcrolzed “That, as the members of the Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry feel the need of accurate tables giving the refractive indices of mixtures of alcohol and water and having the same range as the specific gravity tables for alcohol, we suggest that the Bureau of Standards should consider the preparation of such tables.” The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: Chairman, B. I,. Xurray; V i c e - C h a i r m a n , L. A. Brown; Secretary, Frank R. Eldred ; ;Members of Exccutizv Committae, I,. F. Kebler, Atherton Seidell. The Division adjourned sine die. FRAXXR. ELDRED, Secq’.
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE FERTILIZER DIVISION.’ Meeting called to order December 28th by Chairman Mr. Paul Rudnick. The following papers were presented: Paul R u d n i c k . Address. “Fertilizer Chemistry, a Report of Progress.” Uiwt L. Havtwell arid F . R. Pember. “The Effect of the ‘ITet Process’ on the Availability of Low-Grade Nitrogenous Material .” F . B.Porter. “.4 Method for Testing Out Problems in Acid Phosphate Manufacture.” I . K . Phelps. “Exact Work in Fertilizer Analysis.” C. H . -/o;ies. “Activity of Organic Nitrogen as Measured by the Alkaline Permanganate Method.” H . G. Ucll. “Fertilizer Economics.” E . 1’1. Hart. “The Sulfur Requirements of Crops in Relation to the Soil and -4ir Supply.” johiz Phillips Street. “Note on the Permanganate Methods for Availability of Organic Nitrogen.” A . J . Patteii. “Conductivity Method of Making Keutral Ammonium Citrate Solution.” There n-as much interest and discussion on the papers relating t o Availability of Organic Nitrogen and Neutral Ammonium Citrate. The folloming Committee reports were given : Committee on Nitrogen; Committee on Potash; Committec on Phosphate Rock ; Committee on Fertilizer Legislation. Officers mere elected for 1 9 x 2 : Chairman, Paul Rudnick; V i c e - C h a i r m a n , J. P. Street; Secretarj; J. E. Breckenridge; Executive Committee, F. B. Carpenter, ,4. Lowenstein, W. J. Jones, Jr., and G. Farnham. J. E. BRECKESRJDGE, Sccrc2ar~~. 1 Forty-fifth General Meeting American Chemical Society. Washington, December. 1911.
