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The SAC Centenary Celebrations The Society for Analytical Chemistry celebrated the one-hundredth anniversay of its founding with a symposium on July 16-19 in London with an attendance of over 600 delegates and guests from some 24 countries. Founded in 1874 as the Society of Public Analysts, the SAC is the second oldest scientific organization (next to the Chemical Society) devoted solely to chemistry. Its original name was changed in 1907 to the “Society of Public Analysts and Other Analytical Chemists” and again in 1953 to the “Society for Analytical Chemistry.” A fascinating 225-page history of the Society, written by R. C. Chirnside and J. H. Hamence, was furnished to the participants in the celebration. The symposium gave the impression of offering unusual variety, with sessions ranging from applied subjects such as food analysis and pharmaceutical analysis through more conventional sessions on various instrumental techniques and on education and training to papers on management and on environmental analysis. Industrial chemists were perhaps relatively more active than a t most meetings in the U.S. Altogether, the arrangements, from the colorful opening ceremony through the festive centenary banquet to the final scientific session, were handled with precision that was a joy to behold. Of exceptional interest to the future of analytical chemistry in Great Britain is the fact that 1974 marks the third year of a trial amalgamation of the SAC with the Chemical Society. Before the end of the year, the members of SAC are to decide in an Extraordinary General Meeting whether to terminate the trial amalgamation or, as has been recommended to the membership of SAC by its council, to become an Analytical Division of the Chemical Society. Safeguards for retaining the identity, if not the name, of the SAC have been written into the articles of amalgamation. These include establishment of a trust fund assuring the use of the resources of the SAC for the future development of analytical chemistry, and a continuation of the publication of The Analyst, a time-honored and respected journal. Although some SAC members still appear apprehensive about the prospects of an amalgamation, it appears to an outside observer that a great deal is to be gained by an enlarged membership and an increased interaction with colleagues in other branches of chemistry. Whatever the final decision, we offer good wishes to our British counterparts on the occasion of the Centenary, and express confidence that analytical chemistry in Britain will continue to flourish during the next century even more than it has in the last.
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