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that some of the delegates t o the World Power Conference, to be held the week previous in Washington, D . C , may also act as representatives at the symbols conference. American Chemical American usage has become fairly well standardized since the publication of the Society list prepared by the A. S. A. Subcommittee 92ND MEETING. Pittsburgh, Pa., Sepon Symbols for Heat and Thermodynamtember 7 to 11, 1936. ics. This is now generally adhered to in 93RD MEETING. Chapel Hill, N. C , April America, but other lists have been issued 12 to 15, 1937. by various European bodies. The con94TH MEETING. Rochester, N. Y., Sepference will endeavor to compromise the tember 13 to 17, 1937. differences in the several lists. While it 96TH MEETING. Dallas, Texas, spring of is understood that no international body 1938. has authority t o standardize any list of 14TH MIDWEST REGIONAL MEETING. symbols, it is hoped nevertheless that the Omaha, Nebr., May, 1937. list finally selected by the conference will NORTHEAST TENNESSEE SECTION. Kingsbe accepted by the various bodies repreport, Tenn., August 17, 1936. Dinner, sented as the best, possible compromise 7 P. M.; speaker, N . V. Sidgwick, presi- and automatically become an internadent, Chemical Society (London). tional standard. Participation in the conference has alOther Scientific Societies ready been promised by the Comite* Electrotechnique Suisse, British StandAMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY. Waldorfards Institution, Association Franchise de Astoria, New York, N . Y., week of Normalisation, Ausschusz fiir Einhaten March 21, 1937. REFRACTORIES D I V I und Formelgroszen (of Germany), Verein SION, Bedford Springs Hotel, Bedford Deutscher Ingenieure, Institution of Gas Springs, Pa., September 4 and 5, 1936. Engineers (of England), Comite" ElectroAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL E N G I technique Francais, and negotiations are NEERS. Baltimore, Md., November 11 in progress with the International Conto 13, 1936. gress of Refrigeration, the Physical Society AMERICAN OIL CHEMISTS SOCIETY. Con(of England), National Research Council gress Hotel, Chicago, 111., October 8 and of Canada, Institution of Heating and 9, 1936. Ventilating Engineers (of England), InstiA F R I C A N PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION. tution of Mechanical Engineers (of EngNew Orleans, La., October 20 to 23, land), and Chemical Society (of England). 1936. The American interests will be represented NATIONAL SAFETY CONGRESS AND E X - by the A. S. A. Subcommittee on Symbols POSITION. Atlantic City, N. J., Octofor Heat and Thermodynamics. ber 5 to 9, 1936.
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Personalia V E R N O N L. FRAMPTON, who has just re-
ceived his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, has been appointed assistant professor to inaugurate biochemical work in the Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ALEXANDER F R I E D E N has joined Stein,
Hall & Co., Inc., 285 Madison Ave., New York, N . Y., as technical director of the Food Products Department and head of the Food Research Laboratory. D. E . HALEY, of the Department of Agricultural Biochemistry, Pennsylvania State College, has been called to Puerto Rico to assist the Puerto Rican Government in its new tobacco research program. He will return t o the Pennsylvania State College in August. D. H. KILLEPFER, contributing editor of INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMIS-
TRY, has recently moved to the Lincoln Building, 60 East 42nd St., New York, N. Y. Mr. Killeffer is also contributing editor of Scientific American and serves as public relations counsel to chemical enterprises. E. W. MAGRUDER, chief chemist of the F. S. Royster Guano Co., Norfolk, Va., who suffered severely in an automobile accident in June, is now sufficiently recovered to be up and about his accustomed duties. H. B. M A N N has been appointed as manager of the s'outhern territory of the American Potash Institute, Inc., succeeding the late J. N . Harper. Dr. Mann was formerly agronomist in soil fertility work at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.
Refractories Division A n n o u n c e s Meeting
C and RAYMOND M. Fuoss, Research Laboratory, General Electric Co., have
HHHE Refractories Division of the Ameri1 can Ceramic Society will hold its summer meeting at Bedford Springs Hotel, Friday and Saturday, September 4 and 5. The technical session will be devoted to a discussion of checker brick and regenerators, and it is hoped will draw operating men from steel and glass industries. The program provides for plant trips, golf, and other recreational activities. There will be a full program for the ladies. The Bedford Springs Hotel, which will serve as host to the division, is located in Pennsylvania's cool mountains, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh. Among its facilities are an excellent S-hole golf course, swimming pool, riding, badminton, and temnis courts. The meeting is scheduled for the weekend preceding Labor Day, so that those who wish to may extend their vacation by attending the meeting. For further details, address W. C. Rueckel, 1424 Koppers Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa-
been appointed visiting members of the staff of the Department of Chemistry of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn for the academic year 1936-37. They will conduct jointly a graduate course on the Physical Chemistry of Solutions, taking up recent experimental and theoretical work in the domain of electroALVA R. PATTON has been appointed aslyte and non-electrolyte solutions, espesistant professor in the Department of cially in non-aqueous solvents. Animal Industry, Agricultural ExperiThe lectures will be given on alternatment Station, University of Arkansas. ing Tuesday evenings from 7:45 t o 9:45 Fayetteville, Ark. Dr. Patton received o'clock, commencing October 6, and conhis Ph.D. degree from the University of tinuing throughout the academic year. Minnesota in 1935.
International Conference o n JLetter S y m b o l s f o r H e a t a n d Thermodynamics N ATTEMPT will be made to relieve the present chaotic situation with regard to symbols for equations in thermodynamics at an international conference which has been called by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, to be held in the Engineering Societies Building, 29 West 39th St., New York, N. Y. f September 14 and 15, 1936. The conference has been scheduled at this time so
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HARLES A. KRAUS, Brown University,
M. E. PARKER, formerly butter quality superviser of Sealtest System Laboratories, Inc., is now manager of production of the Beatrice Creamery Co., Chicago, 111. The new position involves production development, quality maintenance, and research direction with respect t o the dairy products of the company.
ROBERT
Reorganization of Technologic Branch of Bureau of Mines
T as chief of the Technologic Branch of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Department HE appointment of ARNO C. FIELDNER
of the Interior, to succeed O. P. Hood, has been announced. Coincidentally, the Bureau's Technologic Branch is reorganized. The name of the Mechanical Division is changed to the Coal Division, and studies relating to the use of electrical and mechanical equipment in mines are transferred to the Mining Division. The Experiment Stations Division is discontinued, and the coal preparation section of the Experiment Stations Division, and the experimental mine section of the office of the chief mining engineer are transferred to the Coal Division. A new Non-Metals Division is created to take over the fundamentals, beneficiation, processing, utilization, and water sections of the discontinued Experiment Stations Division.
R.
RALSTON,
formerly
chief
chemist and research director of The Exolon Co., is now employed in the Pittsfield Works Laboratory of the General Electric Co., engaged in Thyrite lightning arrester development work. SUTTON R E D F E R N , who received his P h . D .
degree from John Hopkins University in the spring of 1936, is working for The Fleischmann Laboratories, N e w York, N. Y., on problems dealing with the malt amylases. J. R. SANBORN has left the employ of Arthur D . Little, Inc., to accept a post involving consultation and microbiological research with the Research Division of the International Paper Co., Glens Falls, N . Y . LESTER W. STROCK has joined the staff of
Lucius Pitkin, Inc., and is in charge of the Spectrographs Department. Prior to accepting this post, Dr. Strock spent almost three years with V. M . Gfoldschmidt as a visiting investigator at the Mineralogical Institute of Gottingen.
