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SCIENTI FIG SOGIETIES. F i r s t Banquet in the Building. S a t u r d a y E‘vening, M a r c h Eighteenth
DEDICATION O F THE CHEMISTS’ CLUB.
The formal dedication of the New Chemists’ Club building was celebrated on March 17th to 19th b y a series of scientific meetings and social functions participated in b y a large number of prominent scientific men and members of the American Chemical Societr, Society- of Chemical Industry, and American Electrochemical Society.
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Dedication Excercises F r i d a j , ajtcrnoon, M a r c h seaenteenth Address-Dr. Morris Loeb, President of the Chemists’ Building Company. Address-Dr. Edward S. Morley, Honorary President of the VI11 International Congress of Applied Chemistry. Address-Professor Alexander Smith, President of the American Chemical Society. Address-Professor William Walker. President of the American Electrochemical Society. Address-Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, on “Chemical Education.” Unveiling o f Rumford Memorial by Professor F. W.Clarke. Address-Dr. Russell R’. Moore, President of the Chemists’ Club. -
Extraordinary 3 f e e t i n g .4nterican Chemical Societjt, F r i d a y E v e n i n g , M a r c h Seventeenth Address-Professor Charles Raskerville, Chairman of the Section. Illustrated Lecture-Professor R. B. Moore, “The Rare Gases of the Atmosphere.” Lecture-Professor Jacques Loeb, “ The Characteristics of Living Matter from the Physico-Chemical Point of View.” -
Extraordinary Meeting A ntcrican Electrochemical Society, S a t u r d a y Allor?ting,;l.larch EightecTtth Address-Mr. Elmer A. Sperry, Chairman of the Section. Lecture-Dr. W. R . Whitney, Mental Catalysis.’: Lecture-Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, Chemistry of Phosphorescence.“ I‘
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Extraordinary -Jfeeting Society of Chemical Industrjj, S a t u r d a y Afternoon, .\/larch Eighteenth Address-Dr. Charles F. McKenna, Chairman. Lecture--Dr. Wm. P. Mason, The Contributions of Chemistry to Sanitation.” Lecture--Professor Charles F. Chandler, “ The History of Chemical Industry in New York City.”
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..liti.iual Business Mectittg of the Society, in the A4ssemblyHall of the Chemists’ Club. Reports of Board of Directors; Announcement of the Annual Election. 10.00 1 1 1
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Report the Cowimittee on Standard Tests for D r y Cells: C. F. BURGESS. Electrically Fitscd .4luniznu as a Refractory: L. E . SAuN D E R s. A .Yew Electric Resistance Furizace: F. A. J. FITZGER A I. n . .4 AYew Laboratory Electric Furnace: M. M. KO“. T h e .Johnson Electric Z i n c Furnace: J . W. RICHARDS. The Condensation o i Z i n c jronz Elcctric Furnaces: F. T. SNYDER. Reliability o j Electric Furnaces for Conzniercial TVork: F. T. SSYDER. 2 . 0 0 P.M. V i s i t t o the Laurel Hill Works of the Nichols Copper Co. 7 . 0 0 P . M . Subscription Dinner, c n jamille, a t the Chemists’ Club. FRIDAY,
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T h e Electric C y a n a m i d Process jor Treating Gold Ores: J . F. CLXXCY. T h e Electrolytic S y s t e m of A inalgamating Gold Ores: E. E . CAREY. T h e Electrolytic Corrosion 01 Electroplated Objects: W. S. LANDIS. Electrolytic Refiniptg as n S t e p i n the Productiow of Sieel: C. F. BURGESS. S o m e Probletns of the Eleciroplater: G. B. HOGAR0O.M.
T h e Haas-Oettel Electrolyiic Cell: E . E. NISWONGER. Electrical Heatiitg for Preznenting Superheating of Liqiiids: J . H o w a ~ nMATHEWS.
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A Mercurous Perchlorate Coulometer-Preliilzinary Experiments: F. C. MATHEKS. E x h i b i t i o n of the Schoenherr A r c for F i x i n g Atmospheric Nitrogen: J . W. TURRENTIXE. Electric Discharges i n Gases: L. A. PARSONS. T h e M e c h a n i s m of Electrolytic Transfer: J . W. RICHARDS. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
The sixty-third meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers will be held in Pittsburg, May zoth, to June 1st inclusive. The Society has not met in Pittsburg since 1884. Colonel E. D. Meier, of St. Louis, is President this year. There will be regular sessions for the reading and discussion of papers, and a n inspection excursion through the leading industrial and manufacturing plants in and about Pittsburg.
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AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS. The Directors of the American Mining Congress, the permanent headquarters of which are in Denver, have selected Chicago as the meeting place for the 1911session, which will be the 14th annual meeting of this body. The exact date has not yet been decided upon, but it will probably be sometime in October. The official call for the convention will be issued shortly, authorizing the appointment of delegates to the meeting by the President of the United States, governors of the various states and territories, the mayors of cities, and mining organizations, etc. It is probable that this will be the last annual session of the Mining Congress to which outside deiegates
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will be appointed, as the directors have for some time been working out plans which have in view the abolition of the delegate system, and permitting only members of the American Mining Congress to participate in the proceedings of the annual convention. The Mining Congress is actively agitating the adoption of Workmen’s Compensation laws by the various coal mining states with the object of providing a fund by a smail tax on coal production, to furnish indemnity for the victims of mine disasters and a pension for aged mine workers. Recently a committee of the Mining Congress drew up a draft for a law of this character, which is now being submitted to the legislatures of many mining states for their consideration. The Mining Congress is also working for more efficient inspection and regulation of coal and metal mines with a view to decreasing the loss of life in mine disasters, the standardization of electric practice in mines, the general revision of the mineral land laws, etc. These and other mining problems will be discussed a t the Chicago meeting.
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The 1 9 1 1 meeting of the British Association will begin Aug. 30th. The president this year is Sir William Ramsay, and the chemistry section will be presided over b y Prof. J. Walker. An Institute for Research in Physical Chemistry has been founded in Berlin by Leopold Koppel, a well-known banker of that city. He has donated $175,000for the erection of the Institute and a further $87,500 which will pay the running expenses for ten years.
NOTES AND CORRESPONDE.NGE. A second pamphlet, ready for distribution in June, is in preparation and will give more detailed informaDr. William H. Nichols, President of the Eighth tion about the preparation of the scientific activitiks International Congress of Applied Chemistry, was the guest of honor a t a dinner tendered him by twenty- of the Congress. I t is the expectation t h a t American two members of the Executive and Sectional Executive manufacturers will see that their interests will be Committees on Tuesday, March 7th, a t the Engineers’ best served by earnest cooperation with their corClub, New York City. The occasion for this dinner responding Sectional Committees and the preparation was Dr. Nichols’ departure on an extended European of appropriate scientific papers for presentation a t the meetings of the Congress; i t is in order t h a t Amertrip in the interests of the Congress. ican manufacturers may have a better conception of Dr. n’ichols’ trip will no doubt be of the greatest benefit to the Congress and to American chemists. the purposes and objects of the Congress and of the His travels will take him through Italy, Austria, best ways of cooperation therewith t h a t this second Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and England, pamphlet is being prepared. The Government of the Philippines has appointed and he will personally carry the invitation of the Dr. Paul C. Freer, Director of the Bureau of Science, American chemists to these countries to take part in Manila, P. I., the Official Representative of the Philipthe work and deliberations of the Eighth International pines on the Organizing Committee of the Eighth Congress. More than 9,000 copies of the Preliminary An- Congress. ___ nouncement, dated March 6th, 191I , abstracted in A NEW RUBBER TREE. the March J O U R N A L , were distributed in the United Professor John R. Allen, of Ann Arbor, has contributed States. Should any one interested in the Congress have been overlooked, a postal card t o the Secretary an article t o Mill Supplies of “ A New Rubber Tree of the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chem- in Mexico,” from which he favors us with a brief istry, 2 5 Broad Street, New York City, will bring one. abstract. The Pel0 Colorado tree occurs on the Western slopes The Congress will not be ready to receive applicaof the Sierra Madres Mountains in Mexico and so far tions for membership until further notice. EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS NEWS.
