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agreement can be reached on this one very important technical phase of sampling and analysis.
The Hoard of Directors for the American Society for Testing Materials has authorized the formation of a new technical committee on sampling and analysis D\ atmospheric pollution. Louis C. McCain', chief of Air and Stream Pollution, t . S. Bureau of Mines, has accepted the temporary chairmanship of the new committee. In authorizing the committee 4 , the board stated that the society will not consider the problems of specifying limitation oi pollution, nor such other related matters as biological and health problems. It is realized that the new committee will have some great problems in developing analytical and sampling test methods as standards, but the situation at present is so involved and to some extent chaotic that the work should be useful to all the interests involved—industry, municipal and -tate governments, the Federal Government, and others. While much work has already been done on the various instrumentation angles, there continues a need lor additional new and improved instruments. Much research is already under way in this field directed toward the development of instruments by which a single or a few contaminants will b e measured. Studies are continuing in various channels on contaminants to b e measured which will offer a true index of the nature and extent of pollution in an atmosphere. Recently, the smog situation in leading industrial centers, coupled with incidents such as the deaths at Donora, attributed to air pollution, is responsible for the present concerted interest in abatement. Xot only is air pollution important from the health standpoint, but it is a very serious economic problem. According to recent estimates, great sums of money are spent annually on equipment and other means to control air contaminants. Expenditures for modernizing plants (for abatement) cost the entire country about $50 million during 1948. In setting u p the proposed committee made up of representatives of industry, government agencies, and others concerned, it is hoped that through the timetested procedure of developing acceptable standard tests and analytical methods.
Agricultural Chemists t o Convene a t Spring Lake T h e National Agricultural Chemicals Association will hold its seventeenth annual meeting Sept. 6 to 8 at Spring Lake, X. J. The board of directors will meet Tuesday, Sept. 5, and Wednesday elections will b e held for the board. Ernest Hart, president of the association will address the convention Wednesday morning. Other speakers scheduled are Avery S. Iloyt of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine; Charles Concannon, chief of the Chemical Branch, Office of International Trade, U. S. Department of Commerce; Fred Bailey, executive director of Xational Agricultural Research Inc.; John D. Conner, XAC special counsel; Mercer Rowe Jr., Flag Sulphur and Chemical Co.; and Bernard E . Conley of the American Medical Association. A panel on soil contamination will b e held Friday morning, with Victor R. Boswcll and S. A. Rowher of US DA and Charles L. Smith of Ethyl Corp. participating. Amusements planned include golf and dancing.
Science W r i t i n g Contest Announced Judges have been named to choose the two winners of the $2,000 fifth annual AAAS-Ceorge Westinghouse Science Writing Awards. Awards of $1,000 each will go to the writer of what the judges consider the best news story and the best magazine article on science published during t h e 1950 contest year in a newspaper and in a general-circulation, nontechnical magazine. Both awards will be presented next Dec. 28 during the annual meeting of the AAAS in Cleveland, Ohio. In the newspaper competition each contestant must submit three science stories published during the contest year as evidence of bona fide interest a n d continuity of effort in science writing for newspapers. T h e entrant must specify, however, which story he wishes his work to b e judged by. T h e awards were established in 1945, the centennial year of the birth of George Westinghouse, to stimulate the interest
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Paint and Varnish Club The next meeting of the New York Paint and Varnish Production C l u b will be held Sept. 7 at 2 Park Ave., New York City. M. Hea Paul will talk o n "Market Research in Color."
Society of Cosmetic Chemists So as not to conf-;:t with t h e meeting of the Toilet Goods Association, t h e Society oi Cosmetic Chemists h a s changed t h e date of its fall meeting from Dec. 6 to Dec. 5. An announcement of t h e meeting ran in this column last week.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS American Chemical Society 118th National Meeting, Chicago, 111. Sept. 3 - 8 , 1950. Sixth National Chemical Exposition, Chicago Section, Coliseum, Chicago, 111. Sept. 5 - 9 . 119th National Meeting ( d i v i d e d ) . Boston, Mass. April 1-5, 1951; Cleveland, Ohio, April 8-12, 1951. Other Organizations Drug, Chemical and Allied Trades Section, New York Board of T r a d e . Annual meeting. Shawnee Inn, Shawnee-onDelaware, Pa. Sept. 2 1 - 2 3 . American Oil Chemists' Society. Fall meeting. Sir Francis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, Calif. Sept. 2 6 - 2 8 . Industrial Packaging a n d Materials Handling Exposition. Philadelphia, Pa. Sept. 2(5-29. International Meeting of the Associations lor the Advancement of Science. Paris. Sept. 11-12.
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