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Volume 6
APRIL 20, 1928
Number 8
The Council Meeting at St. Louis be responsible for the remainder of the expenses, n o t exceeding $5000. Frank C. Whitmore was elected b y t h e Council t o fill t h e un expired term of S. W . Parr as Director of the SOCIETY, and Walter Schmidt, of California, w a s elected a member of the Executive Committee. Joel H. Hillebrand was declared elected Councilor-at-Large. In accordance with a recommendation from the Division of Chemical Education t h e reelection of the following editors of the Journal of Chemical Education for a term of three years, begin ning July, 1928, was approved: editor-in-chief, Neil E. Gordon; departmental editors, W . C. McPherson, H. C. Sherman, R. E . Rose, W m . Segerblom, and R. A. Baker. Copies of "A Proposal" made by the Directors for the support M E M B E R S D E C E A S E D SINCE D E T R O I T M E E T I N G AS R E C O R D E D I N of Chemical Abstracts a s a cooperative effort for recording and PROCEEDINGS indexing the chemical literature of the world through t h e S O Glenn D. K a m m e r Samuel Francis Ball CIETY'S publications were distributed t o the Council. Support Frederic G . Kennedy Horace A. Beale, j r . t o the extent of $50,000 annually for five years is being secured William J . Kitchen Roger E. Blackburn K a r l K. Koessler J . Malcolm Bonsell as an investment on t h e part of industry and during this time a L. R . Lenox E. C. B u r r capital sum is t o be sought t o put the work on a permanent basis. J o h n Buchanan MacLeod J . M. C a m p R o b e r t W . Neff T o date, industry has provided $110,000, the list of donors being Edmund Clark J a m e s V. N o v a k George C . Dempsey headed by a very substantial sum from the Allied Chemical and W . R . Orndorff H . E. Dimmick D y e Corporation. T h e chairman of t h e board is William H . Theodore Wm. Richards Charles W . Easley Alfred E . R o b e r t s B . P. Ellenberger Nichols, a charter member as well a s an honorary member and a R o g e r Allen R u s t Charles T . P . Fennel past President of the SOCIETY. President Parr read a telegram C. Albert Silver Leland W . Fought C. Β . Simpson from Francis P . Garvan, president of t h e Chemical Foundation, Edward J . Fowler H a r r y Snyder T h o m a s B . Freas Inc., announcing a gift toward this fund of $250,000. T h e mes Frederic J . Stoakley Ellinor Garber sage was received with the greatest enthusiasm and i t was voted Bohuslav T y k a c Byron B . Goldsmith Charles H e r m a n Viol Albert P . Hallock that a telegram of appreciation be sent t o Mr. Garvan. A vote Leonard R . Wagner Harry L y m a n H u m p h r e y s of thanks was also cast for t h e officers of t h e SOCIETY for their H . C. White Aug. Hunziker S. W . Woolley splendid work i n this connection. Leslie H . Ingham Inasmuch as the Ohio State University has allotted commo dious quarters for the conduct of t h e work of Chemical Abstracts Doctor G u y of Atlanta extended a n invitation for the SOCIETY in its new chemistry building, the Council voted t h a t its appreto hold the spring meeting of 1930 in Atlanta, and the invitation ciation of this splendid cooperation be sent t o t h e Ohio State was unanimously accepted. Reference was also made to an University. invitation from Omaha that t h e fall meeting of 1930 b e held in The two constitutional amendments which have been pub that city, b u t since it was impossible t o take action at this time, lished were approved t o go t o the membership for consideration the invitation was placed on file for consideration at t h e appro and possible adoption. One provides for a President-Elect who, priate time, together with one previously received from Cin after 1929, shall each year automatically become President, and cinnati. It was voted that t h e differential b e increased from three to beginning with 1930 t h e President-Elect will be chosen as t h e President is now elected. H e will serve as a n ex-officio member five dollars for the registration of American chemists, nonon the Board of Directors and on the Executive Committee for members of the SOCIETY, and that students regularly matricu one year before automatically becoming the chief executive of lated a s majoring in chemistry be immune from this differential the SOCIETY. T h e other amendment is for the purpose of simpli when registering at AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY meetings. It was further voted that the registration fee at regional and di fying t h e procedure of making amendments t o the Constitution and By-Laws. visional meetings for non-member American chemists b e double The Council further voted t o recommend that the host section the registration fee t o members. consider the spring vacation of t h e universities in its area in The report of the committee on t h e Institute of Chemistry of setting the dates of the spring meeting. the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY showed t h a t a deficit of some H. E . Howe read a letter from Mr. Garvan announcing his i n thing like $4000 still remains as a result of t h e first Institute tention to make possible t h e Prize Essay Contest for a sixth meeting. T h i s deficit is at present carried b y t h e Pennsylvania year. The Council voted t o accept the obligations which this State College while efforts are being made to secure funds to gift carries with it and t o extend its sincere thanks t o Mr. Garvan. meet it. For the second session of t h e Institute, to b e held at The Secretary was instructed to send a hearty vote of thanks t o Evanston, I11., July 2 3 t o August 18, 1928, a friend h a s guaran the local committee a n d St. Louisians who have contributed t a teed t o meet two-thirds of t h e expense, t o an amount not t o the success of t h e meeting. exceed $10,000, and Northwestern University h a s promised t o The meeting was called together at 2 P.M., with President Parr presiding and approximately one hundred and fifty councilors in attendance. Greetings were read from the Oregon, Washington, a n d Idaho chemists who have been holding a regional meeting, in which t h e importance of more regional meetings w a s stressed. Applications for granting charters for new sections w i t h headquarters at Bozeman, Mont., Manhattan, Kans., and Pullman, Wash., were approved, all requirements having been m e t . Doctor Parsons read the names of the following members of the SOCIETY who have died since t h e last meeting, and the Council rose and stood in silence for a few moments as a mark of respect to their memory:
