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PERSONAL NOTES ing: Columbia, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Illinois, Cincinnati, Prof. Theodore William Richards, of Harvard University, Nebraska, McGill (Montreal) Universities, Indianapolis Sechas been elected President of the American ChernicalSociety for the tion of the A. C. S., and others to be arranged later. year 1914. M . T.Bogert and A. D. Little have been elected directors, and C. H. Herty, Julius Stieglitz, L. H. Baekeland The Alabama Section of the A. C. S.was addressed a t the a n d W. L. Dudley, councilors-at-large, for a three-year period. January 24th meeting by Prof. B. B. Ross, on “ T h e Occurrence An Anglo-American Exposition to celebrate the centenary and Composition of Some Alabama Phosphates,” and by Prof. of peace and progress in the arts, sciences and industries of the C. L. Hare, on “A Study of the Chemical Composition of Cotton United States and Great Britain, will be held in London, from Seed.” M a y to October. A committee has been organized t o represent The International Petroleum Commission of Karlsruhe, the chemical industries. Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, desire to change the ComDr. C. E. K. Mees, Director Research Department, Eastman mission into a n INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM INSTITUTE,and Kodak Company, gave a lecture illustrated with lantern slides, have requested the Imperial German Government to submit on t h e problems, equipment and organization for research, in their plan to the countries represented or interested in the Comtheir plant a t Kodak Park, Rochester, before the New York mission. on January gth, a t The Chemists’ Club. Section of the A. C. S., Mr. Christian Dantsizen and Mr. J. A. Orange, of the General Mr. A. K. Comins, formerly in the leather department of Electric Company Research Laboratory a t Schenectady, have A. D. Little, Inc., of Boston, is now with the A. C. Lawrence recently returned from Europe where they spent three months Leather Company, of Peabody, Mass. visiting plants of general interest t o the electrotechnical industry. The Wisconsin Section of the A. C. S. met on January ~ 1 s t . The Johns Hopkins Medical School has announced the folProf. David Klein gave a n illustrated lecture on “Recent De- lowing changes concerning the admission of students: I n 1913 velopments in Colloid Chemistry.” the number 3f students in each class was limited t o ninety. hir. H. E. Howe, of the Bausch & Lomb Company, gave a n I n order to receive consideration applications of incoming students illustrated lecture on “Optical Glass” and “ T h e Projections must this year be made by July 1st. After t h a t date the various of Spectra,” before the Western New York Section of the A. C. S. applications will be sifted and the most likely ninety applicants o n January 13th. chosen. The requirements for admission in chemistry have been increased so t h a t in addition to the present requirement of 150 Sir William Crookes has been elected President of the Royal Society. In view of the invariable practice t h a t the President hours of laboratory work in inorganic chemistry, an additional go-roo hours of laboratory work in organic chemistry will be of the Royal Society should hold no office in similar learned societies at the same time, he has been obliged to resign the required of all students desiring to enter the school after October, Presidency of The Society of Chemical Industry, t o which he 1914. was elected at the annual meeting in 1913. Virgil Coblentz, Chief Chemist for Squibb & Co., took the lucky number in a raffle, entitling him t o the library and chemical Dr. Rudolph Messel was elected President of The Society of Chemical Industry, by the Council, on December 22nd, t o com- publications of the late William McMurtrie. The drawing was conducted by Dr. Charles Baskerville and was held a t plete the unexpired term of Sir William Crookes. The Chemists’ Club, New York City, on January 9, 1914. The Philadelphia Section of the A. C. S. held their January meeting on the zznd. The speakers were Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, The Southern California Section of the A. C. S.had as speakers Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry; Mr. Charles J. Hexamer, a t their meeting on January 16th, Dr. Elbert E. Chandler, of the Fire Underwriters’ Association, who gave a n illustrated of Occidental College, The Universal Equilibrium,” and Mr. address on “ T h e Chemistry of Fires, and Chemicals in Fires.” H. J. Lucas, of Throop College of Technology, “ T h e Sanitation Prof. Philip Maas, of the Central High School, exhibited a suite Service of Porto Rico.” of liquefied gases. Prof. J. Howard Mathews, of the Chemistry Department of the Prof. R. A. Wetzel, of the College of the City of New York, University of Wisconsin, lectured on “ Color Photography,” spoke a t a recent Colloquium of the General Electric Company before the Chicago and Indiana Sections of the A. C. S., on DeResearch Laboratory, on the “Relativity Principle,” which he cember 12th and 13th, respectively, and before the students of illustrated with the models recently described in Science. De Pauw University on the afternoon of December 12th. Mr. Wm. Hoskins and Mr. H’V. Main gave a lecture illusMr. H. J. Skinner, Vice-president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., trated with lantern slides, before the Chicago Section of the Mr. Perry Barker and Mr. Vasco Nunez, of the same organizaA. C. S. on January 16th, on “Atmospheric Pollution.” tion, spent two weeks in December examining a large industrial plant in Louisiana. Dr. Reston Stevenson has been promoted to the position of Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the College of the City of The Cornell, Rochester, EasternyandAWestern New York New York. and Syracuse Sections of the A. C. S. held a joint meeting at Dr. Wolfgang Ostwald, of the University of Leipzig, Germany, Syracuse University on January I 7th. The afternoon program was as follows: “Address of Welcome,” Hon. Louis Will, is giving a series of six lectures on colloid-chemistry before vaMayor of Syracuse; “ T h e Use of Physical Measurements in riou 3 universities and chemical organizations in America, includ‘ I
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Chemistry,” Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, Director Research Laboratories of Eastman Kodak Co. ; “Hydrogen Telluride and the Atomic Weight of Tellurium,” Dr. Ross P. Anderson of Cornel1 University; “The Dissociation of Hydrogen into Atoms,” . MacKay, of the General Electric Drs. F. Langrnuir and G. &.IJ. Company; “ T h e Oxidation of Ammonia t o Nitric Acid,” Mr. G. N. Terziev, of the Solvay Process Company; “Microscopical Demonstrations with Especial Reference t o the Ultramicroscope,’: Dr. H. C. Cooper, Syracuse University. The evening program included a short organ recital, a brief welcome by Chancellor Day, of Syracuse University and a lecture on “Electrical Energy,” by Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, Professor in Cnion College and Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Company. Dr. E. G. Love was tendered a testimonial dinner by the members of The Chemists’ Club and their friends, on January 17th, as a mark of appreciation of his long service as Chairman ofithe House Committee of the Club. The Eastern New York Section of the A. C. S.held a symposium on “Electronics and Chemistry,” a t Schenectady, on January 23rd. The symposium was led by Dr. Saul Dushman
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