Berthdot's life and work. It is followed by a short account of the areat state funeral in the Pantheon. Paul PainlevC, Revue du Mois, 3, 513(1907). A very good analysis of Berthelat's philosophy. Carl Snyder, "The Rise of Synthetic Chemistry and Its Founder." A popular - . account in the volume "New Conceptions in Science," Harper Brothers, 1903. A. Boutaric, "Marcellin Berthelot," Payot, Paris, 1927. An extended, excellent account of the life and work of Berthelot. It is one of the volumes in the "Collection d'fitudes. de Documents et de Tbmoignages pour servir a I'Historie de notre Tempe."
Present Age Declared the Age of Chemistry. Previous ages of man's history have been known as the Age of Stone, the Age of Bronze, the Age of Iron, and so on. The Dresent time is ~reEminentIythe Age of Chemistry. This was the thesis of the presidential address drlivcred bcforethc American Chemical Society a t its principal general session b y Dr. Ceorgc D. Roscngarrcn of Philadelphia, head of the society during the present year. Even in the past, chemistry played a leading part in man's progress, Dr. Rasengarten declared, though man has not always been conscious of its importance. The change from the Age of Bronze to the Age of Iron, 3000 years ago, was largely a chemical change. The task of the present and the immediate future, he told his hearers, is the full mastering of the basic principles of chemical science. "An important problem and m e requiring our immediate and undivided attention is so-called 'pure chemistry.' I should rather like to call it 'science of chemistry' in contradistinction to the practical application of chemistry which would be more correctly designated as the 'art of chemistry.' "Pure science is the protoplasm of applied science. It is the brick and mortar of our sky-scraping buildings of industry and commerce. Our civilization of which we are so proud, the comforts of life we are enjoying are wholly built on discoveries emanating from the search for scientific truths, from the purskit of science for the sake of the science itself. As Secretary Hoover has very tersely put it: 'It is in the soil of Pure Science that are found the origins of all of our modern industries and commerce.' "The relationship between the science of chemistry and its varied and multitudinous applications is quite apparent to the chemist, but for our lay guests let me cite one or two of the thousands of examples. About one hundred and twenty years ago, Sir Humphrey Davy in his pursuit of scientific knowledge far the sake of knowledge discovered a method of separating the 'refractory' metals, potassium and sodium, from their combinations. Based on this fundamental discovery, Hall, an American, and Heroult, a Frenchman.. .meoared the metal, aluminum. But for the availability of this metal. . aviation would still have been a Midsummer Night's Dream. "This metal has also added immensely to family happiness. Aluminum kitchen utensils are easy to wash and keep clean, making less work in the household, and consequently stabilizing domestic felicity. "We are living on the scientific researches of a hundred or more years ago. We are plucking the fruit of trees of knowledge planted by our forbears. We have worked hard and fast to get all we can out of the funds of discoveries of past centuries, but we cannot much longer go on harvesting without planting. We owe to posterity what past generations have provided for us. We must not fail in our duty, we must not go back on our indebtedness."-Science Senrice ~
