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Volume 9
MAY 10,1931
Plan Your Vacation In Conjunction with Buffalo A. C. S. Meeting N o w i s t h e time to plan t o attend the eighty-second meeting of t h e A M E R I C A N CHEMICAL SOCIETY in Hotel Statler, Buffalo,
Ν . Υ . , A u g u s t 31 to September 4, 1931. T h e Western N e w York Section cordially invites you. Buffalo is s o favorably located with respect t o recreational advantages t h a t i t is unusually easy t o combine a vacation and the A M E R I C A N CHEMICAL SOCIETY meeting in o n e trip.
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your i d e a of the perfect vacation is t o camp in t h e mountains, fish for t h e b i g a n d gamy ones, play golf on a different course each d a y , or lazily t o ride a deck chair on a palatial lake steamer or a park bench a t Niagara, Buffalo is the center of focus. A week or t w o in t h e vacation grounds of N e w York State or Canada, timed so a s t o bring y o u t o Buffalo August 3 1 , will kill the proverbial t w o birds with one stone and, thanks t o t h e lake breezes and a mean temperature for August of only 6 9 ° F., put y o u r body in good trim. Beginning with the well-paved and scenically beautiful high ways of N e w York, Pennsylvania, and Ontario, which them selves make a motor trip t o Buffalo a pleasant vacation, a very enticing list of recreational advantages can be written. The Adirondacks and Thousand Islands to the east a n d Allegheny and Letchworth State Parks t o t h e south provide beautiful scenery and natural forests. Chautauqua Lake, with fishing, boating·, and rare cultural advantages, is just southwest; Muskoka a n d Algonquin National Park are t o t h e north. Their fame a s summer resorts makes description unnecessary. Lake Erie a n d Lake Ontario have m a n y quiet beach resorts where cottages m a y be rented. T h e steamers which ply all t h e Great Lakes a n d which shoot the St. Lawrence Rapids are fast and comfortable, and because land is nearby much of the time, to some provide more interest than a n ocean voyage. Buffalo itself h a s beautiful drives, parks, golf links, the University of Buffalo» Grosvenor Library, Natural Science Museum, and an interesting harbor. A n d of course Niagara Falls, t h e most beautiful scenic attraction in t h e Bast, crowns t h e list. N e w York S t a t e a n d t h e Province of Ontario have spent enormous sums of m o n e y improving both banks of the river and restoring the natural b e a u t y , so that i t now c a n truly b e said that Niagara is a more beautiful place t o visit than i t has been since the occupation o f the country b y the white man commenced t o leave its mark: on t h e land.
Chicago Section Announces Plans for Willard Gibbs Medal Award On trie occasion of t h e presentation of the Willard Gibbs Medal to Phoebus A . Levene, of T h e Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, N e w York, Ν . Υ . , on M a y 22, a banquet will be held at t h e S t e u b e n Club, 188 West Randolph St., Chicago. T h e ban quet will be preceded b y a n informal reception at 6:30 P . M., and will be followed b y t h e presentation of the medal. Hermann I. Schlesinger, University of Chicago, chairman of t h e Chicago Sec tion of t h e AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, will preside.
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Schlesinçer, crhairmstn. T h e founder of t h e medal award, William -A. Co^nversei, was secretary of t h e Chicago Section from 1902 to 1909. Doctor Lev^ene w i l l give a scientific address o n "Chemical Structure and Optical Activity" under the joint auspices of the Northwestern Univecrsity Medical School a n d the Chicago Section of tfcie AMSBRICAJS* CHEMICAL SOCIETY at 2:30 P . M. o n Satur-
day, M a v 23, in tbie Archibald Church Library, Montgomery Ward Blclg., 3003 East Chicago Ave. A l l meunberrs of tine AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and their
friends, a s welH as members of the related sciences, are informally invited t o attend t h « Willard Gibbs medal award banquet, as well as t o heaar the scientific address. Reservations should be made as early as possible w i t h A. E . Schaar, 656 West Jackson Blvd., CliicagcD, III, The price of the banquet is $2.50 per plate.
Pâtifiœ Intersectional Meeting Announced A n IntersecrtionaL Meeting is t o be held i n Pasadena, Calif., June 15 "to 20,. 1931 „ in conjunction with the national meeting of the American .Association for the Advancement of Science. This is a n uniasuallsy important scientific event, which a number of distinguished eastern send foreign speakers will attend. Members of t h e AD*BRIC=SAN CEEBMICAL SOCIETY are invited t o present papers
at t h e session» held «during t h e latter part of t h e week. Morning sessions d u r i n g the earlier days of the meeting will be devoted to symposia. Titles must be in the h a n d s of t h e chairman of t h e program committee, G— Ross Robertson, University o f California a t Los Angeles, 405 HEQlgard. Ave., L o s Angeles, Calif., b y M a y 18. T h e time required for presentation of the paper (usually 10 t o 15 minutes) shoiLtld be g i v e n with the title. AU persons presenting papers a x e aslâced to send manuscripts or adequate abstracts to reach t h e coenmittee b y June 5. In the case of AMERICAN CKEMICAX SO«CIOTY members, abstracts in triplicate should be sent.
Merck: Remews Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry T h e Fellowship i m Analytical Chemistry which Merck and Co., Inc., of BRalwrsfcy, N . J., established for the academic year 1930-31 at EPrincet-on University with an annual stipend of $1000 hats beesn renewed for t h e year 1931-32. I. C . Schoonover, the first recipsdent, bias also been awarded t h e fellowship for the coming acadesmie y e a r , and will continue the study of new potentioxnetriee titration methods. M r . Schoonover received his A.B. degr-eeat George Washington University, and served two years as S L junior chemist at t h e U. S. Bureau of Standards. He is one of tihe joint authors of a paper entitled "Two Hundred Reagent Chersnicals Oood a n d Bad," which was presented a t the spring meetimg of
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R. H. McZKee Gives A. C. S. Membership as Prize
Koch, University of Chicago, will present the medal, after which Doctor Levene will deliver an address on " T h e R e v o l t of the Biochemists." Responses will b e made b y Lawrence V. Red
Ralph H. NwIcKee» professor of chemical engineering a t Columbia Unrversitsr, has established a prize i n chemistry a t his Alma Mater, The · Colleg?e of Wooster. T h e prize, consisting of a
m a n , President-elect of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, and by
two-yeaar menmbcrsbtip i n t h e AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, is
Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. T h e Willard Gibbs Jurors, forming t h e Committee of Award, are: B. S . H o p k i n s , W . Lee Lewis, S . C. Lind, Julius Stieglitz, W. D. Bancroft, G . Borrowman, Otto Folin, F. C. Whitmore, W. L. Evans, A . A . Noyes, L . V. Redman, Harry Steenbock, and H . I.
given to» the studenct who h a s the highest standing in chemistry at the e n d of tic first semester of his junior year. Two awardls have been made under this plan. Last year the prize w a s awarded to William Longbrake. George Ruggy is the recipient sthis year.
