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The Year’s Progress in Carbonization Methods. E. L. SPENCER. Carbonization in Bulk. C. J. RAMSBURG. The Operation of Inclined Retorts. FRANK HUBER. Gas Chemists’ Hand Book. W. H. FULWEILER. An Electrical Process for Detarring Gas. F . W . STEERE. A Method for the Determination of Hydrogen Sulfide in Gas. A . B. WAY. The Proper Specifications for, and Inspection of, Interior Gas Piping. A. E. TURNER. Piping of Large Buildings for Gas. 0. H. FOGG. Utilization of Gas Appliances. W. J. SERRILL. Estimating Accruing Depreciation and Features in Connection therewith as Related to matters of Accountancy. A. C. HUMPHREYS. Accounting for Depreciation. HALPORD ERICKSON. Methods and Facilities for Specifying and Testing Blowers, also Measuring Air and Steam Supply to the Water Gas Generators. J. M. SPITZGLASS. Measurement of Gas in Large Volumes. J. F. WING. Purifiers. C. E . PAIGE. Care and Maintenance of Gas Holders. J. H. BRAINE. Ammonia Purification. V. VON STARZENSKI. The Fusibility of Ash in Coals Used in Gas Making. PERRY BARKER. The Mode of the Decomposition of Coal by Heat. H. C. PORTER. Gas Manufacture from the Point of View of Physical Chemistry. W. F. RITTMAN. Illumination by Gas: Its Present Status and Its Future. C. 0. BOND. T h e Physical Installation of Gas Arcs. C. A. LUTHER.
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Compensation of Meter Readers. H. C. SCHAPER. Printing and the Care of Printed Stock. W. P. BAYLIE. An Extension of the Dewey Decimal Classification System t o Gas Engineering. D. S.KNAUSS. Rate Making. WILLIAMMCCLELLAN. ANNUAL MEETING O F T H E AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY CALLED OFF At the meeting of the Directors of the American Chemical Society in New York on September 21, 1914, i t was decided t o hold no annual meeting of the Society this fall. SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS O F INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY-A CORRECTION I n the article published under the above title, THISJOURNAL, 6, 678, the paragraph beginning a t the bottom of column I , page 681, and the first sentence in the next paragraph should read as follows: “From 1877 down t o the close of 1912 there were taken out in Germany 8,062 German patents, or 224 per year, dealing with the utilization of coal-tar hydrocarbons and their by-products; it has been estimated t h a t not more than one out of every hundred has secured financial returns for its owners. During t h e years 1895 t o 1903, 382 German patents, or a t the rate of 48 per year, were taken out in the inorganic chemical industries. “ It would be a n interesting subject for speculation t o consider the intellectual effort involved in the 8,062 coal-tar patents as compared with the intellectual effort required for the 382 inorganic patents.” BERNHARD C. HESSE 90 WILLIAM ST.,N E W Y O R K September 8 . 1914
PERSONAL NOTES Congress has provided JY200,ooo for a Chemistry Building at the Bureau of Standards. Plans are now in preparation, b u t i t will probably be two or three years before the building is completed. Dr. Jokichi Takamine of New York City will present his paper on “The Chemical Industry of Japan” before the Detroit Section of the A. C. S. either on October 30th or November 27th. Prof. R. H . Fernald of the University of Pennsylvania was recently appointed consulting engineer of the U. S.Bureau of Mines. The Chicago Section of the A. C. S., a t its regular meeting on September I Ith, discussed the following subject: “How can we raise the moral and financial standing of our profession?” Mr. William A. Williams, Chief Geologist General Petroleum Co., San Francisco, Cal., has been appointed chief of the new oil department of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, with headquarters a t Washington, D. C. Harry A. Curtis, assistant professor of chemistry a t the University of Colorado, has returned after a year’s leave of absence, during which time he took graduate work in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, receiving the degree of doctor of philosophy. The Executive Committee of the Chicago Section of the A. C. S . have instituted a bureau composed of chemists of recognized standing, which invites inquiry from any who desire advice as t o the best method of procedure t o overcome the handicap resulting from the scarcity of foreign-produced chemicals and products, and t o answer inquiries and to supply, when possible, information such as cannot be obtained through
the usual channels, or to direct inquiries to reliable sources of information. Irene H u n t Davis, instructor in chemistry a t the University of Washington, has been promoted t o be assistant professor of chemistry. Several citizens of Toronto have agreed to contribute F15,ooo for five years to enable the University of Toronto to increase its research work. The Pittsburgh Section of the A. C. S. held its 109th regular meeting a t the University of Pittsburgh on September 17th. The program was as follows: “A Correlation between Certain Physical Properties and the Chemical Composition of Glasses, Thermal and D. E. Ward Tillotson. “Crystalline Glazes-A Optical Study of the System Na20.Zn0.Si02” (illustrated by Specimens and Lantern Slides), A. A. Klein. The Detroit Section of the A. C. S.holds its meeting on the last Friday of each month at the Employers’ Association rooms on the seventh floor of the Stevens Building. The 109th meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers will be held a t Pittsburgh, Pa., October 8 t o IO, 1914. This meeting is t o be under the auspices of the Committees on Iron and Steel, Petroleum and Gas, Coal and Coke, and Non-Metallic Minerals. The meeting of the Southern California Section of the A. C. S.on September 19, 1914 took the form of a Picnic Excursion Venice, t o which members, their families and friends were invited. All lunched together on the beach at I P.M. The afternoon was spent in games, races, bathing, lounging and all the usual and unusual Venice pleasures. The committee had arranged for a Special Fish and Chicken Dinner a t 6 P.M.
