ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY WALTER J. MURPHY, Editor
has 1101~come to us through official channels that an international analytical congress will be held in Lisbon. Portugal, in September of nest year, under the auspices of the AAnalytical Section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. We congratulate our Portuguese associates and pledge them and the I U P h C analytical section our active support in order to help make the 1936 gathering in Lisbon an outstanding success in every n-ay, comparable to the memorable Oxford meeting of a few years ago. The staging of another international analytical coilgress demonstrates the full vigor of t8heXnalytical Section of IUPAC, and American analytical chemists can be very proud of the leadership given it by I. 11. Kolthoff as president, and S. E. Q. Ashley as secretary. Both have traveled to Europe extensively on IUP,AC matters in recent months. Their intense interest in developing a closer relationship scientifically and personally with the analysts of other countries constitutes a splendid example for all of us to follow. It is upon such a firm basis that international good will and understanding are built. The Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the Sational Research Council (not the . ~ M E R I C A S CHEMICALSOCIETY)is the U. S. official connection with IUPhC. The division, under the chairmanship of William J . Sparks, has endorsed most enthusiastically the Lisbon aiialytical congress and is maintaining close liaison with the officers of the section and n-ith Professor D . Antonio Pereira Forjaz, president of the organizing committee. Physical arrangements for the congress are being handled by Professor Pierre Laurent of the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon. The fact that ITTPAC is staging a biennial meeting in Zurich in ,July of this year will mean that many analytical chemists will he there to help in planning for the Lisbon analytical congress ill 1956. I t is the general feeling of the officers of the IUPAC A4nalytical Section and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the Sational Research Council, that papers offered for presentation a t the Lisbon meeting by American analysts should be screened by a board of referees appointed by the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology. We believe this to be a very practical, a very excellent idea. TORD
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY would seem to be the logical choice for the ultimate publication of papers presented by Americans at the Lisbon congress. The editors will feel highly honored if this invitation is accepted. -111 authors should be aware that manuscripts offered for publication in the journal, regardless of the place or occasion of presentation, are subjected to our usual rigorous reviewing. The editors will, however, if this journal is selected as the medium for publication of the papers presented by Americans, publish them together in a single issue and n-ith appropriate special editorial treatment. Rlore specific and detailed information on the Lisbon analytical congress will appear in subsequent issues of this journal and in Chemical and Engineering -Yews. In writing about the congress we are reminded of the fact that analysts are in for a very busv year in 1936. Running through the list very hurriedly. x-e can think of the Pittsburgh =Inalytical Conference, the Louisiana State University Symposium, the spring and fall national meetings of the ACS, the analytiral sessioii of the Gordon Research Conferences, and i n 1936 a very special Summer Analytical Symposium-the annual event cosponsored by the Division of Xiialytical Chemistry and ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. For the first time in the history of the summer alialytical symposia, one n-ill be held in the Far Weston the campus of the University of California at Los hugeles. Extended to a three-day meeting, there will be three sections: (A) Rapid Methods of A4nalysis, (B) lnalysis of Industrial Wastes, and (C) *Analytical Problems Encountered in Biological Systems. ;\Tore about this special affair later. The year 1956 will be a particularly stretiuous one, but n-e look upon this increased activity simply as an indication of the ever-increasing importance of the broad field of analysis. decade or so ago no one supposedly in his right mind would have pictured the analysts as the modern gypsies of the 20th century or, perhaps, we should hare said the modern Gullivers. It is a lot of fun, of course, but of more serious importance it means that our special field of endeavor is progressing scientifically a t a phenomenal rate of speed and meetings are essential for the fast and accurate dissemination of new knowledge upon which new industries are being built and old ones rejuvenated.
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