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The Armed Forces Chemical Association will hold a dinner at the Hotel New Yorker, Thursday, Sept. 6, 1951, for members, wives, and other guests who will be in New York attending the Diamond
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CAL SOCIETY and the World Chemical Conclave. A social hour with refreshments preceding the dinner will be held. The dinner speaker will be the internationally known J. Davidson Pratt, director and secretary of the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, London, England. Mr. Pratt has been a leading figure in the Chemical Warfare Organization since World War I. He is a member of the British Chemical Defense Board as well as chairman of two of its committees dealing with offensive and defensive equipment, respectively. Preceding the dinner the directors of AFCA will meet. The time and place of this official gathering is to be announced later. The charge for the social hour and dinner will be $10 per person. Reservations should be sent immediately to Fred M. Jacobs, AFCA National Headquarters, 2025 Eye St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C , Suite 819.
Armour to Stage International Symposium On Chemistry of ACTH Armour and Co. will sponsor an international symposium in the Palmer House in Chicago on Sept. 18 at which leading European and American biochemists will discuss the chemistry of ACTH. The conference will follow "within a few days the Jubilee Meeting celebrating the 75th birthday of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL
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SOCIETY, and the meetings of the International Chemical Congress and the International Chemical Union, in New York and Washington. Many prominent foreign chemists will be in the United States for these sessions, most of them as guests of American chemical and pharmaceutical organizations. Armour research division, headed by Victor Conquest, vice president, has interested itself especially in three younger men, two English and one Swedish, who have never before had opportunity to meet American biochemists. These three are: George W. Kenner, chemist, and Fred Sanger, biochemist, both of Cambridge University, England; and Jerker Porath, biochemist of Uppsala University, Sweden. Topflight visitors will also include: Arne Tiselius, biochemist of the University of Uppsala, Sweden, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1948; A. R. Todd, Cambridge biochemist; and C. J. O'R. Morris of the London, England, County Hospital.
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Scheduled to present formal papers are: David F. Waugh, biochemist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ε. Β. Astwood, Tufts College, chemist; Emil M. Smith, M.D.9 and George W. Sayers, bio chemist, both of the University of Utah; Sidney W. Fox, biochemist, Iowa State University; Wendell M. Stanley, C. H. Li and J. Ieuan Harris, biochemists, and Fred W. Carpenter, virologist, all of the Univer sity of California. Wilfred White and Joseph D. Fischer, biochemists of the Armour and Co. re search division, will also deliver papers.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS American Chemical SocietyDiamond Jubilee Meeting, 120th National. New York City, Sept. 3-7, 1951. 121st National Meeting, Buffalo, Ν. Υ., March 23-27, 1952. Milwaukee, Wis., March 30-April 3, 1952. 122nd National Meeting, Atlantic City, N. J. Sept. 14-19, 1952. 123rd National Meeting, Los Angeles, Calif. March 15-20, 1953. 124th National Meeting, Chicago, 111., Sept. 6-11, 1953.
Reservations for Diamond! Jubilee Banquet The deadline for advance reserva tions for the Diamond Jubilee Banquet has been extended to Aug. 24. All who are planning to attend this gala event at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on Sept. 5 are urged to get their reservations in promptly as the tickets are going fast. An order blank may be found on page 2563 of the June 25 issue of C&EN. As indicated on the coupon, orders should be addressed to "Dia mond Jubilee Banquet" AMERICAN CHEMICAL
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