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M E E T I N G S AND Royal Society of South A f r i c a Invites Overseas Membership The Royal Society of South Africa is introducing institutional membership lor overseas institutions. The society holds meetings rrgul.nl> m < .'ape Town and lias published transactions continuously lor over TO \ears. during which time it has amassed and maintained a large· and valu able library of periodicals obtained largely by exchange with scientific societies throughout the world. Subjects dealt with by the organization include the mathemati cal and natural sciences, and certain hu manistic studies such as archaeology, but exclude therapeutic medicine, ethics and politics, history, and the arts. Subscrip tions for overseas institutional membership will be $-1.36 per annum, and application for membership should be sent, together with the subscription, to the honorary general secretary of the Royal Society of South Africa, the University of Cape Town, Rondeboseli, Cape, South Africa.
PROGRAMS
will be limited to 40 participants. A regis tration fee of $25 is payable on arrival at Oak Ridge. Additional information and application blanks may be obtained from Dr. Ralph T. Overman, Chairman, Special Training Division, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, 1». O. Box 117, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Patent Law Problems To Be Reviewed The Practising Law Institute will con duct its annual program for the patent bar to be held from July 24 to 28 at the Hotel Statlcr, New York City. Patent lawyers from many industrial corporations and law firms throughout the country will attend the five-day program on Current Problems in Patent Law in air-conditioned quarters. William R. Woodward, of American Tele phone and Telegraph Co., is chairman. Nine other courses for practising lawyers are included in the summer program which begins July 10 and closes Aug. 4.
Fifth Calorimetry Conference Courses in Instrumentation The Special Training Division of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies will conduct a two-weeks course in intrunientation for radioisotope work from Sept. δ t o 15, 1950. Emphasis will be on funda mental instrumentation for applied nuclear science problems. T h e course will be open to chemical instrument specialists, electrical engineers, physicists, or others specializing in instrumentation. A knowledge of nu clear radiation properties and experience in electronic instrument design are prereq uisites for attendance at the course, which
The Fifth Calorimetry Conference will meet Sept. 5, 1950, 9:00 A.M. to 5 : 0 0 P.M. in Lecture Room 3 of the Technological Institute of Northwestern University at Evanston, 111. Full details of the confer ence will be mailed to the regular mailing list, and any others interested in the details may write Daniel R. Stull, Physical Re search Laboratory, D o w Chemical Co., Midland, Mich.
TAPPI to H o l d Paper-Plastics Conference in October The plastics committee of the Tech nical Association of the Pulp and Paper
Cross Section of VIP's at AlChE Symposium The St. Louis section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers held a one-day meeting o n May 5 at which t w o symposia, "Careers in Chemical Engineer ing" and "Unit Processes," were presented. Among those attending were ( left to right) T. H. Chilton, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and vice president of AIChE; D . H. Tilson, Aluminum Ore Co.; W. T. Nichols, Monsanto Chemical Co., and a director of AIChE; L. E . Stout, Washington University; F. J. Curtis, vice president of Monsanto and past president of AIChE; J. W . McCrackin, Monsanto, and chairman of St. Louis section of AIChE; B. E. Thomas, Monsanto; C. W . Swartout, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works; and S. L. Lopata, Stanley L. Lopata Co.
Industry is sponsoring a paper-plastics conference to be held at the New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, Ν. Υ., Oct. 19 and 20. The two-day session will be devoted to the fundamentals of plastics and high polymers and their application to paper. The program will include 12 to 16 sepa rate papers, and is divided into four ses sions, namely, properties of plastics in relation to papermaking, beater addition fundamentals, cellulose—fundamental properties in relation to plastics, and plas tic coating fundamentals. Considerable time will be devoted to discussion.
A r m i s t e a d Heads Chemical Engineers George Armistead. Jr., Washington chemical engineer and wartime employee of Petroleum Administration for War, has been named to succeed Philip H. Groggins of the Department of Agriculture as president of the Chemical Engineers' Club of Washington. Other officers elected at the annual business meeting are Randall D. Sheeline of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance, vice president; Herbert W. Yeagley, Monsanto Chemical Co., secretary; and W. D . Kavanaugh, American Cyanamid Co., treas urer.
M e e t i n g Date Set f o r Electron Microscope Society The eighth annual meeting of the Elec tron Microscope Society of America is t o be held at the Hotel Statler, Detroit, Mich., from Sept. 14 to 16, 1950.
Salesmen's G o l f Dates T h e Salesmen's Association of the American Chemical Industry has scheduled golf outings for July 11, Bonnie Briar Country Club, Larchmont, Ν. Υ.; Aug. 16, Montclair Country Club, Montclair, N. J.; and Sept. 12, Westchester Country Club, Rye, Ν. Υ.
S C I to M e e t a t Newcastle-upon-Tyne The council of the Society of Chemical Industry has accepted the invitation of t h e Newcastle-upon-Tyne section to hold its sixty-ninth annual general meeting in N e w castle-upon-Tyne July 10 to 14. T h e theme of the meeting will be coal and agriculture.
Buffalo Rubber Group Announces Pians The Buffalo Rubber Group has set t h e following dates for 1950: July 14, outing at Lancaster Country Club; Oct. 17, tech nical meeting and dinner at Hotel W e s t brook; Dec. 19, Christmas party at Elks Club.
G a s Association Meeting The Independent Natural Gas Associa tion of America will hold its annual m e e t ing at the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Tex., beginning Oct. 23.
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