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HIEET1NSS Af%JO P i ^ e H i ^ A M S Glenn Seaborg to A p p e a r on Western Mew York TV Series T h e Western New York Section of the A M E R I C A N C H E M I C A L SOCIETY
day, April 9 , b y J.O'M. Bockris of t h e department of chemistry, Imperial College ot Science a n d Technology, L o n d o n , a n d official delegate of t h e Faraday Society.
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Electrochemical Society Features Symposia T h e fifth annual symposium on Rare Metals of the Electrochemical Society will be held at t h e spring convention in Washington, D . C , at the W a r d m a n Park Hotel April 9 to 12. O t h e r symposia will be held on Electric Insulation, Luminescence, Electrothermics, a n d Theoretical Electrochemistry. A total of 19 p a p e r s will be delivered. The Richards Memorial L e c t u r e will be given at 4:30 P . M . Mon-
Labor Relations Subject Of SCI Meeting T h e Society of Chemical Industry is holding trie third and final meeting of t h e season in Montreal at the Windsor Hotel April 9. "The speaker on that occasion will be W . I I . G a r r e t t of Monsanto C h e m i cals Ltd. of G r e a t Britain, who will speak on "LuHor Relations in the British Chemical Industry." Guests will he welcome at the meeting. Tickets m a y be obtained from Leo E . Ryan. M o n s a n t o ( C a n a d a ) Ltd., P.O. Box 6103, Montreal, P.Q., C a n a d a .
A I ^ E r o Hold Minerals C o n f e r e n c e T h e fourth annual Northwest Industrial Minerals Conference will be held in Portland. Ore-., April 27 a n d 28 in t h e Congress Hotel, u n d e r joint sponsorship of t h e industrial minerals division of the American Institute of M i n i n g and Metallurgical Engineers a n d its Oregon section.
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Trisection Meeting a t Princeton T h e Monmouth C o u n t y Section of t h e ACS, jointly with t h e Princeton a n d T r e n ton Sections, are holding a trisection meeting April 19 at the Frick Chemical L a b oratory Princeton University, Princeton, N . J. This is the second trisection meeting to be held by these local sections, and it is h o p e d they may b e c o m e regular annual affairs. W . A. W e y l of Pennsylvania State College will speak on "Atomistic Interpretation of the Catalytic Activity of Semiconductors/'
C o t t o n Fiber Researchers t o M e e t T h e regular a n n u a l meeting of its collaborators on cotton fiber research will be held at t h e Southern Regional Research Laboratory of U S D A in N e w Orleans during t h e week of April 2 3 . O n c e a year, four specialists from industry a n d other research organizations engaged in t h e study of textiles review t h e progress m a d e b y t h e laboratory staff in advancing t h e f u n d a m e n t a l knowledge of cotton fiber properties.
Gibbs M e d a l Presentation T h e story announcing that W. F . G i a u q u e would receive the Gibbs Medal of t h e Chicago Section, which appeared in C&EN, March 19, astonishingly placed t h e presentation in N e w York. In fact, w e were just as astonished as our readers, a n d wish to make it clearly understood that t h e Chicago Section gives t h e medal a n d presentation will be m a d e at a b a n q u e t to b e held at t h e F u r n i t u r e Club of America in Chicago on May 18.
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O t h e r Organizations American Ceramic Society. Annual m e e t ing, Chicago. April 2 2 - 2 6 . American Petroleum Institute. District spring meeting, Casper, W y o . April 19-20. American Society of Biological Chemists. Cleveland, Ohio. April 2 9 . Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers. N e w York City. April 24. International Congress of P u r e and A p plied Chemistry, X l l t h . N e w York City, Sept. 1 0 - 1 3 , 1951. International Union of Pure a n d Applied Chemistry. XVIth Conference. New York City, Sept. 8 - 9 , 1951; W a s h i n g ton, D. C , Sept. 1 4 - 1 5 , 1 9 5 1 . Midwest Power Conference, Annual m e e t ing. Chicago, April 4 - 6 . Society of Chemical Industry. Perkin Medal Award. N e w York City, April 2 7 .
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