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STANDARD SAMPLE OF PHOSPHATE ROCK The Committee on Phosphate Rock, Division of Fertilizer Chemists, American Chemical Society, has received a number of requests from chemists interested in the analysis of phosphate rock for a standard sample of this material. I n response to these requests the Committee has decided to adopt as a tentative standard a sample of phosphate rock on which a large number of results have been obtained in cooperative work by members of this Division under the direction of the Committee. The average results obtained in this cooperative work will be furnished with this sample and while these results may not be absolutely correct, yet they are undoubtedly very close to t h e truth, as they represent an average of the best results obtained, most of them from analysts specializing in this line with the elimination of obviously erratic results. This standard should serve to bring about a greater uniformity in results, both b y enabling those interested to check the work of analysts, as well as by enabling the individual analyst to check his own work with a sample of known composition. Samples may be obtained from Mr. C. F. Hagedorn, -4rmour Fertilizer Works, Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois, by enclosing 25 cents to cover cost of packing, mailing, etc. F. B. CARPENTER, Chairman of Committee on Phosphate Rock
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ritories, Insular Possessions of the United States and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as well as 30 societies, were further included in these committees by specially appointed representatives, numbering 124 in all. I n March, 1911,the Government of the United States sent formal invitations t o all the governments of the world to join in this Congress. Twenty-eight foreign governments accepted and sent a total of 107 delegates. In 18 countries separate organizing committees were formed or organizers were installed, containing upwards of 573 individuals (not allowing for duplications, which probably did not exceed IO per cent.), and 55 societies and educational institutions. The Executive Committee of this Congress especially invited I ,483 different technical, scientific and trade societies and educational institutions the world over t o join the Congress. Two hundred and thirty-seven in 28 different countries accepted this invitation and appointed 348 delegates. The total working force in the interests of this Congress the world over amounted therefore t o not less than 2,000 individuals (not allowing for duplications, which probably did not exceed IO per cent.), 392 societies and educational institutions, and 75 governments (including State governments of the United States). On the publicity side the American Committee placed upon its mailing list 438 trade, technical and scientific publications the world over, and all were supplied with the various publications and appropriate news items from time t o time. There were disAMERICAN ELECTROCHEMICALSOCIETY-TWENTY-THIRD tributed by the Congress, and also on its behalf by American GENERAL MEETING societies, such as the American Chemical Society, the American The general meeting of the American Electrochemical Society Electrochemical Society and the Chemists' Club, upwards of was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 3rd-gth, with 300,000pieces of printed matter describing the expectations, aims headquarters and meetings a t the Hotel Traymore. and hopes of this Congress, as well as its accomplishments to PAPERS R E A D AND DISCUSSED date, from about forty different points of view. Presidential Address by President W . Lash MiUer, introducing the Communication was established with central organizing comSymposium on the Electrodeposition of Metals. Electrodeposition of Gold and Silver. Francis C. Frary. mittees in Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, GerElectrodeposition of Copper. C . W . Bennett. many, Great Britain, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, Dutch East Electrodeposition of Brass and Bronze. C. W . Bcnncff. Indies, Norway, Russia and Sweden and organizers were inElectrodeposition of Cobalt and Nickel. 0.P . Watts. stalled in Argentina, Chile, Italy and Portugal through Electrodeposition of Lead. F . C . Mathers. Solid, thick Lead Cathodes from Lead Acetate Solutions. F . C. whom publicity was maintained, as well as memberships solicited. Mathers. The American Sectional Presidents and their Sectional ExecSolid, thick Lead Cathodes from Lead Lactate Solutions. F . C. utive Committees of the 24 different sections themselves by letter Mathers and B . W . Cockrum. solicited papers from specialists the world over. Of these 24 only Conduction and Radiation of Heat. I . Lengmuir. 17 sections kept a record of such outgoing matters, and these 17 Experiments with Furnace Electrodes. F . A . J . FitzGerald and A . T . Hinckley. sections sent out 17,176letters for t h a t purpose. Aluminium Nitride. J . W . Richards. The net result of the work of this organization the world over is Some Tests of the Edison Storage Battery. C. W . Benneff and H . N . a total of 4,163members residing in 36 different countries, of Gilbert. Concentration Cells Containing Organic Liquids Immiscible with which 1,883 coming from 27 different countries, attended the Waters. R . Beutner. Congress meeting and registered, b u t more than g per cent. Concentration Changes in Copper Sulfate Electrolysis. C. W . Bcnnetf failed t o bring their membership credentials with them although and C . 0 . Brown. specifically requested so t o do. Of these 1,883 members only The 3-Phase-2-Phase Induction Furnace. A . E . Grecne. Making Electric Steel without Slag. A . E . Grecm. 2 2 8 or 1 2 per cent. registered for sections; 1,284papers were Evening Lecture-Hyperbasis. Prof. F . B . Kcnrick. of Toronto. promised or submitted for the Congress; 304 of these were never Friday, April 4th, was spent in an excursion to Philadelphia supplied. Of the papers presented 20 per cent. were rejected where the making of crucibleT5teel was seen and a two-ton either by the Sectional Committee or by the Committee o n Papers Roechling-Rodenhauser induction steel furnace inspected a t and Publications, or by both committees. Of t h e 789 papers the works of the Crucible Steel Casting Co. Visits were also accepted by the Congress 560 or 7 I per cent. were in print before made to the Harrison Bros. Co. (Lead Paints, Lithophone and the Congress assembled in New York. The remaining 229 Contact Sulfuric Acid) and the United Gas Co. Works (Water papers appear in the Appendix. One thousand, three hundred Gas, Illuminating Gas, and Gas Testing Laboratory). and- twenty-two members withdrew their sets of the fist 24 volumes of t h e original communications, and of these not fewer THE REPORT O F THE SECRETARY OF THE EIGHTH INTERthan 514 shipped them directly out of New York City leaving NATIONAL CONGRESS OF APPLIED CHEWSTRY' not t o exceed 808 sets available for use in preparing discussions; The preparatory work for this meeting began June 11, 1910. no doubt only a very few of these 808 were used for any such Organization for practical work was fully effected in the United purpose, which was the exact purpose for which so much adStates by June, 19I I. The I I American committees then formed ditional labor and effort were expended. contained upwards of 900 American chemists (not allowing for Two hundred and seventy-seven ladies residing in I 2 different duplications, which probably did not exceed I O per cent.). The countries acquired attendance cards, and of these 246 registered United States Government and the Governors of 49 States, Ter- and attended the social functions of the Congress. 1 Report, Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Vol. 28. The work of the 24 sections was accomplished in 146 meetings
