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for the camp dinner and the cosy fireplaces in the cottages. Seven of the party started fishing immediately. Mr. Colby Dill proved the champion fisherman and landed seven fine trout. After supper Mr. Stephen F. Tyler read his paper on “Fused Silica: Its Properties and Uses,” which was discussed by the members sitting around the huge office fireplace. Sunday was spent in walks through the Maine Woods or storytelling around the firesides. Mr. Hugh K. Moore was voted the champion story-teller. Some of the party returned to New York while the remainder took the trip by motor boat to Upper Dam, spending the night there and returning to New York Monday morning by motor boat to Bemis and then by the Rumford Falls Railroad to Boston. The meeting had proved to be the best attended in the ten years’ history of the Institute; also the most profitable from a technical standpoint and the most delightful on account of the beautiful mountain and lake scenery afforded by this popular vacation region.
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not only for the men but for the ladies who may be present, and every effort is being put forth to make the meeting a success. Special symposiums are being arranged by the chairman and secretaries of Divisions and it is believed that an unusual opportunity will be given in these active chemical times for chemists to get together and exchange views and ideas, many of which cannot at present be published. A preliminary notice of the meeting, containing some additional data, will reach the members about the time that this issue of THIS JOURNAL goes to press. A final program will be sent shortly before the meeting to those who request it. CHAS.I,. PARSONS, Secretary
NORTHERN OHIO SECTION, AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY The Northern Ohio Section of the American Ceramic Society met in Cleveland on Monday, June IO, 1918. An inspection trip occupied the greater part of the afternoon. The first plant visited was that of the Cleveland Metal Products CLEVELAND MEETING, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Company, manufacturers of enameled oil stove parts, light The 56th General Meeting of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETYreflectors, cooking ware, etc. From here the members went will beeheld a t Cleveland, Ohio, September I O to 13, 1918. A to the Euclid Glass Division of the National Lamp Works Council meeting will be held on the afternoon of September g, where they saw the making of all the glass parts for electric and the Council will be entertained a t dinner a t the University light bulbs. They next visited Nela Park, the laboratories Club by the Cleveland Section. On Tuesday there will be a of the General Electric Company. I n the auditorium of the general meeting a t the Hotel Statler, which is to be headquarters. Engineering Building they were entertained with motion pictures A dinner will be given in the evening at the Statler Hotel, fol- of the obtaining of the raw materials and subsequent treatment lowed, after a convenient interval, by a smoker a t the same of the same in the process of manufacture of Mazda lights. place. Divisional meetings will be held on Wednesday morning A short business meeting completed the afternoon session. and all day Thursday. On Wsdnesday afternoon trips wiJ be After dinner together, the members met with the Cleveland Sectaken, probably as follows: tion of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY in the Assembly Room A-Sanitary trip. Sewage disposal experiments. Water filtration. of the Olmstead Hotel. Here Mr. A. A. Klein, of the Norton Garbage disposal. Company, Worcester, Mass., gave a highly interesting and inB-Steel industries. Blast furnaces, by-product coke, steel, Bessemer, structive talk on “Petrographic Studies in Ceramics.” This and open hearth. C-Industrial tour of Cleveland, including all the manufacturing dealt with the practical application of petrography t o the manucenters, but only a few stops. facture of cement, porcelain, brick, abrasives, and other ceramic D-Trip by special cars t o Oberlin. products. In the evening the President’s address will be given and this will be followed by a reception a t the Hotel Statler. CALENDAR OF MEETINGS After the divisional meetings on Thursday, automobile trips American Pharmaceutical Association-Annual Convention, will be taken to one of the country clubs for dinner and to the Chicago, Ill., August 12 to 1 7 , 1918. Cleveland Museum of Arts. On Friday a special excursion is American Chemical Society-Fifty-sixth (Annual) Meeting, planned for Akron, Ohio, where there are interesting rubber, Cleveland, Ohio, September I O to 13, 1918. pottery, soda, match, and other factories. Luncheon will be served in Akron and the party can leave for home from that city. National Exposition of Chemical Industries (Fourth)-Grand Central Palace, New York City, September 23 to 28, 1918. The Cleveland chemists are arranging special entertainment,
NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE AN AMERICAN EMBLEM FOR AMERICAN CHEMISTS Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: In yesterday’s parade a feature was a float demonstrating the use of the oxy-hydrogen torch. Not long ago a movie in color showed the use of this same torch in the Navy Department cutting ingots and cleaning castings. It is of invaluable use today in very many of the manufactures through which we intend t o win the war. Revisions are the order of the day. Paris honers President Wilson in naming an avenue for him. Other recognitions of American achievement are being made. The official insignia of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and of the Chemical Service Section of the United States Army are perpetuating German devices. Thst of the Society has a Liebig bulb, that 01 the Army a “benzol ring.” Now, Robert Hare announced to the world the source of the greatest convenient artificial heat and light in 1801 (two years before Liebig was born),
founded the platinum industry in this country, and made possible the untold advances of recent years in metallurgy, including the building of our fleet ol naval and merchant vessels. He also produced calcium carbide in an electric furnace about 1840, long before the hexagon was thought of. Besides, in 1831 he devised the present method of exploding charges a t a distance, plunge battery, and incandescent wire. Then, too, he was a member of the first Chemical Society in the world, the Chemical Society of Philadelphia. We have just commemorated the lighting of the Torch of Liberty a t Philadelphia; why not also perpetuate this Scientific Torch, with its glow1 Let i t be the emblem for American chemists whether in military or civil life. Yours for patriotism, CHARLESA. DOREMUS 229
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