he became chairman of the Advisory Board on Quartermaster Research & Development. H e has been a member of the ACS since 1928 and has been active in the Northeastern Section, of which he was chairman 1932-33, vice chairman 1931-32, and councilor 1934-48. He is president of the Corporation of the Woods Hole Océanographie Institution and vice chairman of the NAM Committee on Research. He was honorary chairman of the American Section, SCI, 1955-56, and was the recipient of the Gold Medal in 1956 from the American institute of Chemists. He is a trustee of the Gordon Research Conferences, a Fellow of the AAS, AIC, and a member of AIChE, the Inst, of Food Technologists, and other technical societies.
Regional Director, Third District W. Conard Fernelius, professor and head of the department of chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, was born in Utah and educated at Carnegie Tech and Stanford University. After receiving a Ph.D. from the latter in 1928, he joined the Ohio State University staff as instructor in chemistry. He rose to professor in 1940. He later taught at Purdue and Syracuse. During 1943-46 he was on leave of absence to do research at Monsanto's central research department for the Manhattan District of the Corps of Engineers. H e joined ACS in 1924 and was active in the Columbus and Dayton Sections before his present membership in the Central Pennsylvania Section. He was chairman of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry in 1941, secretary-treasurer in 1939. He has been a regional director (1951-56) and has served or is serving on the following ACS committees: Corporation Associates, Awards and Recognitions, Education and Students (chairman, 1953-56), Publications, Advisory to the Chemical Corps, Manpower, Foreign Compendia, Fellowship Definition, Petroleum Research Fund, Nomenclature, Spelling, and Pronunciation. He has also served on the advisory boards of C&EN, I&EC, Chemical Reviews, Inorganic Syntheses, and / . Inorg. and Nuclear Chem. and he was section editor Chemical Abstracts 1939-49. H e is the co-
author of several textboobs iind is active in research in inorganic «chemistry, e s pecially coordination coEoipounds and rare elements. He is a member of AAAS and AIC.
Charles L. Thomas is associate director of the research and development department at Sun Oil C o . H e was bom in Hendersonviile, N. C , in 1905 and educated at the Universities of North Carolina and Morthwestern. He received a Ph.D. from the latter mustitution in 1931. He joined Universal Oil Products as a research chemist that same year. In 1945, he left hais position as associate director of resejurc*h with UOP to become director of research with Great Lakes Carbon Cor|>., and i n 1951 joined Sun Oil as a staff assistant. He has published over two dozen articles and is the authoi: of over 100 patents. His major professional interests are hydrocarbons, catalytic cracking, catalysis, carbon, a n d graphite. His membership in the ACS dates from 1927. He has been active- in t h e Chicago Section where he sea-ved as chairman 1948-49, councilor, 1948-52, 1945, and 1943. He ha-s also been a member of the North Carolina and the Philadelphia Sections aaid was vice chairman of the Division of Petroleum Chemistry, 1944-46 axicL councilor 1952 to date. He has seaved as chairman and secretary of tine ACS Committee on Constitution aii^d Bylaws and on the C&EN and I&cEC advisory boards. He is a member of the? Soc. Auto. Engrs., AIC, AIChE, aa-d API and a member of the board of directors, First International Congress OD Catalysis.
Foreign Journal Rates
ACS members may subscribe to the British periodicals as follows: Price to Public £ sT d.
Journal of the Chemical Society 16. 0. 0. Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry i. 10. 0. Quarterly Reviews 2. 0. 0. Current Chemical Papers Ordinary Edition 3. 10. 0. One-side Edition 5. 0. 0. Air-mail Edition 6. 10. 0.
Price to ACS £. s. d. 14.
S. O.
1.
7.
0.
1.
16.
0.
3.
3.
0.
4.
10.
0.
5.
17.
0.
Applications for membership in The Chemical Society and order forms for publications of that organization are available on a limited basis from the Executive Secretary's office at ACS headquarters. The foreign member dues in the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society, regularly 22 guilders, are 19.80 guilders to members of the ACS. This includes a subscription to either Recueil des travaux chimiques des Pays-Bas, 11 issues per year published in English, French, or German (price to nonmembers, 31.50 guilders) or Chemisch Weekblad, published in Dutch (price to nonmembers, 22 guilders). Both publications are available to foreign members who belong to the ACS for 29.80 guilders. All charges include postage. Applications for membership should be sent to the administrators of uie Royal Netherlands Chemical Society, Lange Voorhout 5, The Hague, Holland. For exchange rates, it is suggested that those wishing to subscribe consult their banks at the time the order is entered.
Mass Heads New York Section
Henry B. Hass of the Sugar Research is serving as 1956-57 chairman of the ACS N e w York Section. Chairmanelect is T. Ivan Taylor of Colum bia University. The The mutual arrangeioeait whereby secretary for the members of the ACS receive discounts term is Arthur B. on publications of The Chemical SoKemper of Man ciety (London) and οι* membership hattan College; and publications of the Koninklijke treasurer is S. Nederlandse Chemische Vereriging Fisher Gaffin of (Royal Netherlands Cherniical Society) Vicks Chemical. will b e continued in 1957^
Mutual arrangement con- Foundation tinues to entitle ACS members to discounts on English and Dutch journals
OCT.
2 9.
19 56
C&EN
5273
