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Vol. 18, No. 12
Seventeenth National Colloid Symposium T H E National Colloid Symposium held annually under the auspices of the Division of Colloid Chemistry, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, and the Com-
American Chemical Society1
mittee on Colloid Science of the National Research Council, was held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. on June 6,7, and 8. The total registration was somewhat over 200. The meeting was opened with a welcoming address by the vice president
of the University of Michigan in the beautiful amphitheatre of the Horace H. Rackham Building and then turned over to H. B. Weiser as chairman of the Colloid Symposium. Twenty-one papers were presented. Of these the first three covered studies in the properties of sodium palmitate systems, luminescence analysis, and electron diffraction studies of inorganic gels. Ten were combined to an extremely interesting
100TH MEETING. Detroit, Mich., Sep tember 9 to 13, 1940. 101st MEETING. St. Louis, Mo., April 7 to 11, 1941. 102ND MEETING.
Atlantic City, N. J.,
September 8 to 12, 1941. SYMPOSIUM ON DIFFUSION AS THE BASIS OF UNIT OPERATIONS, Division of In
dustrial and Engineering Chemistry. Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., December 27 and 28, 1940. SYMPOSIUM ON STRUCTURE OP MOLECULES AND AGGREGATES OF MOLECULES, Divi
sion of Physical and Inorganic Chem istry. Columbia University, New York, Ν. Υ., December 30, 1940, to January 1, 1941.
Other Scientific Societies AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION
OP
CHEMISTS AND COLORISTS.
TEXTILE
Hotel Com
modore, New York, Ν. Υ., October 18 and 19. AMERICAN
OIL
CHEMISTS'
SOCIETY.
8tevens Hotel, Chicago, I11., October 2 to 4.
CONFÉRENCE ON APPLIED NUCLEAR
PHYSICS. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., October 28 to November 2. Sponsored by American Institute of Physics in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ELECTROCHEMICAL
SOCIETY.
Ottawa,
Canada, October 2 to 5. FIRST
COTTON
RESEARCH
CONGRESS.
Waco, Texas, June 27 to 29. NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OP CHEMIS-
TRY TEACHERS. University of Maine, Orono, Maine, August 13 to 16. Summer conference. TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION OP THE PULP
AND PAPER INDUSTRY.
Olympic Hotel,
Seattle, Wash., August 20 and 21.
» The list of the 8oowrr's National Omeen and Directors, Editors, Members of Council, Divisional and Local 8#otion Ofieers, Com· mittees, and Chapters of 8tudent Affiliates appears in the NEWS EDITION three times a pear—usually, February 10, May 10, sad October 10.
Top. Discussion in the dining room. Center. I. H. Hodges, Mrs. Bartell. and Moses Gomberg. Bottom. Registration desk of the Colloid Symposium
A Social Hour at the Seventeenth National Colloid Symposium
Buffalo Rubber Group Meets Α τ THE first meeting of the newly formed Buffalo Group of the Division of Rubber Chemistry of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY in the Hotel Lenox,
F. E. Bartell, local chairman, and H. B. Weiscr, Colloid Symposium chairman subsymposium on the colloidal behavior of proteins, proving the increasing importance of colloid science in medicine. Five papers were devoted to the discussion of recent advances in surface chemistry, and the last three papers gave striking evidence of the broadening of our knowledge in the colloid chemistry of clay. A banquet with exquisite entertainment supplied by the University Glee Club Quartet and members of the staff, a comedy starring Whitford Kane, presented in the charming Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, and a conducted tour through the Chemistry Building constituted the perfectly arranged entertainment for those taking active part in the symposium. The accompanying ladies were Created to an elaborate program of trips and visits to points of historic and scenic interest. The organisation of the symposium, headed by its local chairman, F. É. Bartell, and assisted by members of Alpha Chi Sigma and Iota Sigma Pi, was largely responsible for the success of the Seventeenth National Colloid Symposium. Η. Β. Weiser as chairman again proved his ability to assemble an outstand ing program and run it on schedule. At a business meeting of the responsible committees Cornell University was se lected as first choice for the 1941 meeting place. Ohio State University also ex tended an invitation. An invitation by President Stearns of the University of Colorado to hold the symposium at Boulder in 1942 was re ceived and unanimously accepted. E. A. HAUSER, Chairman,
Division of Colloid Chemistry
June 4, all the rubber companies in the area and many allied industries were represented, and distinguished guests came from New York, Akron, and Chicago. Sixtynine members attended the dinner and many more arrived later for the program. John S. Plumb, United States Rubber Reclaiming Co., temporary chairman, opened the meeting. E. B. Curtis, R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Chairman of the Divi sion of Rubber Chemistry and principal speaker, traced the development and sig nificance of the local groups throughout the country and welcomed the Buffalo Group as the eighth. H. Walter Grote, United Carbon Co., presented a pro gram of sleight-of-hand, acknowledged to be on a par with the best professional per formances. Officers elected were John S. Plumb, Chairman; Michael J. Berman, Vice Chairman; and Burt W. Wetherbee, Treasurer; while M. L. Allard, J. M. Cram, and Η. Ε. Elden are members of the Executive Committee.
Petroleum Industry's Position Favorable THE petroleum industry's job during the summer is to replenish inven tories where necessary while withdraw ing larger than seasonal amounts from gasoline storage, according to W. R. Boyd, Jr., executive vice president, American Petroleum Institute, at its 10th midyear meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, May 27 to CI. "If this occurs, a trend toward a more nearly balanced inventory position should develop. If not, no great amount of imagination will be required to foresee the consequences", Mr. Boyd said. Total demand for the first quarter of 1940 was up 6.7 per cent over 1939, which in turn was up 6.5 per cent. Mr. Boyd remarked that "it would be dangerously optimistic to expect that this rate of increase will continue". Stocks of indi vidual products are at reasonable eco nomic levels with the exception of gasoline, he explained, and over-all demand for pe troleum products is favorable.
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Mr. Boyd pointed out that the war abroad has not caused an increase of export shipments. Total exports of both crude oil and refined products during the first 7 months of the war were about 10,000,000 barrels less than in the com parable 7-month period—a 10 per cent decune. Exports of lubricating oils and greases have shown an increasing trend, while greatest drops were in gasoline and heavy fuel oils.
Kraemer and Landt to Lecture at University of Delaware The University of Delaware will extend its graduate courses in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering in the year 1940-41 by offering courses by two eminent scientists, G. E. Landt and Ε. 0 . Kraemer. In the Department of Chemistry a yea/ course in colloid chemistry will be given by Ε. 0 . Kraemer of the Biochemical Re search Foundation, soon to be located near the University Campus. Dr. Krae mer was formerly with the University of Wisconsin and the du Pont company. C. C. Lynch will offer a graduate course in Thermodynamics. F. S. Rostler, chief chemist of the Wilmington Chemical Corp., has been reappointed as special lecturer, and will extend his course in chemical technology to two semesters. In the Division of Chemical Engineering a course in the theory and technology of plastics will be given during the second term by G. E. Landt, technical director of the Continental-Diamond Fibre Co. A semester course in distillation will be given in the first term by A. P. Colburn, professor at the university. These courses are to be given at hours when industrial men will be able to take them. A number of industrial chemists and engineers are carrying a program leading to the masters degree by taking graduate courses at the university eve nings and Saturday mornings. Charles A. Rhodes resigned his position with the Acme Evans Co., Indianapolis, Ind., on May 1 to become chief chemist with the Mountain City Mill Co., Inc., of Chattanooga, Tenn. At present a new modern cereal laboratory is being set up by the Mountain City Mill Co.
