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T H E JOiYRAVAL OF’ I N D U S T R I A L A N D E N G I N E E R I N G C H E M I S T R Y .
OHIO SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL AND STEAM ENGINEERS.
November 17-18th. Annual meeting a t Canton, Ohio. Secretary, F. E. Sanborn, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
______ NEW JERSEY SANITARY ASSOCIATION.
November 24-2gth. Annual meeting a t Lakewood, N . J . Secretary, J . A. Exton, 75 Beech St., Arlington, N . J . AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION.
December 4-9th. Annual meeting a t Havana, Cuba. Secretary, Wm. C. Woo(hvard, Washington, D. C.
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PORTLAND CEMENT MANUFACTURERS.
December I I-13th. Annual meeting a t Nem York C i t y . Secretary, Percy H. Wilson, Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
______ AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
December 5-8.-Annual convention a t New York City. Secretary, Calvin W. Rice, 2 9 West 39th St., S e w York City.
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NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF DUSTRIAL EDUCATION.
November a-4.-Annual Ohio. Secretary, Edward 44th St., New York City.
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meeting a t Cincinnati, H. Reisner, 2 0 West
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Committee on Professional Ethics: A. C. Langmuir, Charles F. McKenna and Lucius P. Brown. Committee on the Perkin Medal Award, 1912 : W. K. Whitney, Chairman, W. R. Walker, W . D. Richardson, A. D. Little, F. B. Carpenter, W. H . Brady. Delegates to the Meeting of the International Association of Chemical Societies : Theodore W. Richards, W. A. Noyes, A. L. Day. The National Civic Federation has formed a new Pure Food and Drug Department. The first meeting was held in New York City on October and. Among the speakers were Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, and Dr. Wm. C. Woodward, Secretary of the American Public Health Association. The British Association for the Advancement of Science has recently made an appropriation for the furtherance of chemical study, classifying as follows: Gaseous Explosives, 300 dollars ; International Commission of Physical and Chemical Constants, Dynamic Isomerism, and Plant Enzymes, 150 dollars each: the study of Hydro-aromatic substances, IOO dollars, and 5 0 dollars each to Electroanalysis and Transformation of Aromatic Sitro-amines. Professor Charles L. Parsons was the representative of the American Chemical Society a t the recent meeting in Chicago of the American Mining Congress.
____ The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science will hold its thirty-second annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on November 14th. ,
---Professor Alexander Smith, President of the American Chemical Society, has made the foilowing appointments :
The Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations wjll hold its annual convention in Columbus, Ohio, beginning November I 5th.
OBITUARIES WILLIAM HENRY McLAUCHLAN.
Among the twelve spectators who lost their lives in the terrible accident a t the New York State Fair Automobile Races, September 16, 1911, was Dr. IYilliam Henry hIcLauchlan, 41 years of age, Secretary of the Syracuse Section of the American Chemical Society, Editor of “The Syracuse Chemist” and a member of the Chemical Department of The Solvay Process Company. Possessed of the highest scholastic attainments, Ph.B. University of Michigan 1893, M.S. Princeton 1899, and Ph.D. Breslau 1903, he was highly successful as a n industrial chemist, in steel work, and in the manufacture of synthetic organic acids, and, lastly, with the Solvay Process Company, where he was in charge of important experiments on a manu-
facturing scale. Last winter he organized and carried on a course in Chemistry for some of the younger employees of the company-, commenting in his droll way: “There’s no reason why we shouldn’t share some of the pie that we’ve had so much of.” Dr. McLauchlan was also an enthusiast in a wide field of activities : athletics, religious education, music, Boy Scouts, literary club and amateur theatricals form a list sufficiently long to indicate the breadth of his avocational interest. His cordiality and enthusiastic cheerfulness made him invaluable a s an informal speaker and entertainer. No man could have been held in higher esteem b y his associates and subordinates in the works and b y outside acquaintances. Their strong sympathy goes to the bereaved wife and little daughter, Matilda Gill. L. C. J O N E S .
