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more than half a thousand American chemists have joined hands, and it is their united hand, big, brawny, and right honest in its grasp, which is extended to you to-day. Thus in the lesson of this congress we learn not only of the special forms of activity as manifested in the titles of our papers, but we have before us a larger, unprinted program, a splendid plate, illuminated with the light of higher and broader views, bearing a greeting of good fellowship and fraternity and the promise of a more intimate union of all science.
PROCEEDINGS O F T H E CONGRESS ON CHEMISTRY H E L D IN CHICAGO, ILL., AUOUST 21 TO AUGUST 26, 1893. MONDAY,AUGVST2 I . HE congress was opened by H. W. Wiley, chairman of the Joint Committee and president of the American Chemical Society, who gave an address of welcome to the foreign and American delegates, and suggested the establishment of a Triennial International Congress on Chemistry to meet at various centers. It was voted to appoint a comniittee of five to take the recommendation under consideration.
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TUESDAY, AUGUST2 2 . T h e session was opened by an address from Prof. E. Engler, of the Polytechnic School at Carlsruhe, who had been appointed honorary president for this day The printed program of papers on analytical chemistry then followed as nearly as practicable, the following being presented in full or in abstract : Opening Address. On Certain Distinct Advances in t h e Analytical Chemistry of Recent Years. Prof. A . B. Prescott, Ann Arbor, Mich. On t h e Determination of Phosphoric Acid as Magnesium Pyrophosphate. Hugo Neubauer, Rostock. Concerning t h e Method of Determining t h e Melting Point of Butter Fat. Prof. Adolf Mayer, Director of t h e Royal Experimental Station at Wageningen, Holland.
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Tlie Work and Aims of the Conixnittee 0x1 International Standards of t h e Composition of Stecl. Prof. Johti I\‘. Langley, Cleveland, Ohio. The Need of Staiitlarti 3Iethotls for the Xrialysis of Iron aiid Steel, with Some Proposed Stantlarrl 3Ietliod5. Charles B. Dudley. Altoona, Pa. 011motion,
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of iroii and steel was referred to the Coinniittee on International Standards of the Composition of Steel.
The reading of papers was theii resumed as fol1o.c~~ : Prof. It’. n. Rising, Berkeley, Cal. Deteriiiinatioii of the Crystallizable Sugar in Beets. TI. l’ellet, Paris. 1)isciission o f tlic Foregoing Paper by 1 1 . Yilniorin, of Paris. Review of tlic Standard Methods of Potash Determination. Sornian Robinson, State Chemist of Florida. .lee uracy in the Analysis of Dairy Products. IT. Droop Richmond, Chemist to t h e Aylesbury Dairy Conipany, London, Eny. The Desirability of a System of Standards for Ctiifyirig the Results of Prof. J. U’.Langley, Cleyelancl, Ohio. On Standard 3Iethods of Oil Analysis. l’rof. Ernest Rlilliau, Marseilles, .SI e w I
