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divisions of the chemical departments, but do not include the chemical director. I t would be impractical to use salaries of chemists in the manufacturing departments, as while most of c our plant superintendents began as chemists, the majority of Definite Salary *___ the better men are now occupying positions of great responsiTotal --Salaries-RangesCash bility as managers of departments, vice presidents, and directors TITLI~S No. No. Min. Max. No Ranges No. Min. Max. Bonus of the company, etc. While the fact that they occupy such 728 720 1664 160 Junior24id 149 131 720 1664 18 1664 149 positions is undoubtedly due to their chemical training, yet 900 2700 . Senior Aids 62 43 900’ 1500 19 960 16 their present duties are not chemical except in the most general 2100 way. Junior 1127 957 1080 3000 170 1200 638 1080 3000 309 Chemists 2500 The head of another firm writes: Assistant 863 795 2000 4500 68 1920 239 1600 6000 488 I cannot give you the information you desire in reference to Chemists 4000 my own salary. Associate 180 148 1800 5500 32 3000 130 1800 6000 436 I will gladly give you information regarding the salaries of Chemists 6000 three chemists in our employ: Chemists 180 168 3000 6000 12 4800 163 3000 10000 1125 10000 A-Over $15,ooo.oo Senior 39 39 5000 15000 .. ..... 37 5000 15000 1085 B - O v e r 12,000.00 Chemists C-Over Q,ZOO.OO One of the above chemists was formerly in the employ of the It will be noted that the percentage of Senior Chemists in United States Government, but left government employ on Table X is much lower than the percentage for senior chemists account of his compensation. in any other allocation. This is due to the fact that it was Considering chemists as a class, it is my opinion that with generally impossible for the field agents to get the compensa- few exceptions, in general industries really remarkably good tion of the highest salaried employees. On this point note what chemists are underpaid. Since collecting the data for the Reclassification Commission, one Chemical Director says: material increases of salaries have been reported by a number of I would state that the average salary of nine men in our company, who compare with the grade of senior chemist, is $11,013. organizations, but Congress has not as yet given any relief to the civilian scientific government workers. These men are the heads of our research laboratories, and of Tentative Allocation by Special Agents in the Field
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NOTES AND CORRUPONDLNCE AN OPPORTUNITY TO OBTAIN THE LONDON CHEMICAL SOCIETY’S ANNUAL REPORTS ON THE PROGRESS OF CHEMISTRY AT A REDUCED RATE Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: To care for the desire on the part of a good many American chemists for critical reviews of the new chemistry published during appropriate periods of time it was thought better by the Council of the American Chemical Society to endeavor to arrange for a wider distribution in this country of the excellent annual reviews published by the London Chemical Society than to attempt to publish such reviews independently. In accordance with the wish of the Council of our Society I placed our request before the Council of the London Society and, as anticipated, this body has again shown the same splendid spirit of cooperation as has characterized other dealings. The London Chemical Society is willing to send copies of its Annual Reports for 1920 to members of the American Chemical Society for 7 shillings per copy, a rate which is less than that charged to the general public. This covers postage. Anyone who wishes to take advantage of this opportunity is to send his order, together with a remittance for 7 shillings, made payable to S. E. Carr, to the Assistant Secretary, Chemical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W. I , England, so that it will reach him by January I, 1921. It is unfortunate that the time limit is so near a t hand, but arrangements cotrld not be completed soonc:r and it is necessary for the Chemical Society to know the number of copies desired by January I in order to know how many copies to print. Each applicant should state that he is a member of the American Chemical Society. TGthose not familiar with the Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, it is explained that they appear in the form of a book, well bound, which is divided into chapters relating to different branches of chemistry, each of which is written by a chemist of high standing. References to original papers are given, and author and subject indexes are provided. These reviews, since they furnish continuous reading and since they are of a critical nature, serve as a most interesting, convenient and valuable means by which one can refresh his memory or become informed as to the more important advances in chemistry during the period covered. E. J. CRANE C!OLWMBUS,
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SEMI-CENTENNIAL EXERCISES AT OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
In connection with the Semi-centennial Exercises of the Ohio State University, the Department of Chemistry held a chemical conference of its graduates on October 16,1920. This conference was attended by a large number of the alumni of the University. The speakers were all graduates of the Department. The program was as follows: MCPHERSON. Brief History of the Department of Chemistry. WILLIAM Head Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University. 2-The Organization of a Chemistry Department. WINFREDF. COOVER, Professor of Chemistry, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 3-A Chemical Attack upon the Unsolved Problem of Human Diabetes. EDGAR J. WITZBXANN, Research Chemist, Sprague Memorial Institute, Rush Medical College, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. &Problems in the Petroleum Industry. GBORGB A. BURRELL,, President, The Gasoline Recovery Co., 2907 Equitable Bldg., New York City. (Formerly Colonel C. W. S., U. S . A,) 5-The Composition of Automobile Exhaust Gas in Reference to the Ventilation of Vehicular Tunnels. ARNO C FIELDNER,Research Chemist, Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa. (Formerly Major C. W S , U. S. A.) I-A
NEWS ITEMS FROM THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL An international conference to consider the future of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature has just been held in London a t the invitation of the Royal Society. Representatives were present from fourteen countries. Up to the time of the war, more than thirty countries were joined in undertaking the indexing and publishing of the index of the scientific literature of the world. Fourteen annual issues, each of seventeenvolumes, have been published covering the literature from 1901to 1914. The results of the war, together with the much-increased cost of printing and publishing, have interrupted the undertaking, and no index of scientific literature published since 1914has been issued. The conference decided that even though a change may be made in the future in the method of indexing and of publishing the index, as has often been suggested, it is imperatively necessary to continue the present method until the scientific literature published up to the end of 1915and possibly also that up to the end of 1920 has been catalogued.
