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THE SECRETARY'S OFFICE CA
Price
CA is sold to ACS members for personal use for $15 and to all others for $60. The latter is a lot of money, but we have shown previously that even at the highest subscription rate, 10,000 words in CA cost less than 10,000 words in any other abstract journal. Actually, there are few publications used by chemists and chemical engineers with a lower 10,000word rate, and most of these are put out by the ACS. Other comparisons are possible and two of these only recently have come to our attention. Chemisches Zentralblatt has announced new subscription rates—DM 300 for abstract issues and DM 96 for subject and formula indexes. Thus, at current exchange rates, an annual subscription costs $94, 50% more than CA. Also, we have learned of a patent abstract service which supplies each abstract on a punched card. These sell for eight cents each. At this rate, CA provided its subscribers in 1951 with $833.36 worth of patent abstracts, admittedly not on cards. However, there's a wide spread between $833.36 and $60 which at the least can be called favorable to CA. And it should be remembered that the $60 ($15 to ACS members) in 1951 bought 50,657 abstracts of papers in addition to 10,417 abstracts of patents as well as about 2700 large pages of indexes (in closely spaced fine print ).
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high and low percentages to 1952 figures gives a wide spread, obviously narrower in succeeding months. These figures are as follows : TIME
N E W MEMBERS ENROLLED
Jan. 1 Feb. 1 March 1 April 1 May 1
E N D OF YEAR PREDICTED RANGE
1478 2697 3310 3755 4265
4800-9800 5400-7900 5300-7200 5100-6500 5200-6400
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Evidences of Membership
Table I. New Members YEAR
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951
VOLUME
JAN.
18 15 19 28 31 20
6937 7847 6093 6233 4919 6783
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NO.
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The Executive Secretary knows nothing about statistical analysis, as probably is evident. The method used goes back to the plain arithmetic he learned in school many years ago. Certainly it shows that the flow of applications is irregular.
It was not until 1950 that the ACS,provided membership certificates. T h e step was taken because many members were making inquiries and indicating a strong desire for this tangible evidence of membership. Sales figures over two years do not support the conclusion then reached. In 1950, 238 certificates were sold; in 1951, only 59. This makes a grand total of 297! The certificates, 8 Va by 11 inches in size, are very attractive ( see picture, C&EN, March 13, 1950, page 866), At present they are available only t o members, senior grade. If names a n d dates are engrossed to be uniform with printed words, the cost is $4.00; for handwritten names, the price is $2.00. How Many? The story on pins and buttons is differAll chemists like to juggle figures oc- ent. These are available in two styles, two casionally. The Executive Secretary is no grades, and two sizes. Sales in 1951 were exception. From time to time he has tried 2024. Of these, 366 were 10-carat gold to predict total new members for a year and 1658 were rolled gold. Lapel buttons on the basis of enrollment on various dates were more popular than pins—1319 and and the pattern of prior years. Don't do 705 respectively. Prices, including Federal it; the effort is wasted. The only conclu- Tax, range from 90 cents to $6.30. sion that is certain is that the total for the We'd like to have every member own year will be more than is shown in any a pin or lapel button. Many persons don't of the early months. believe in display of framed certificates Frankly, we don't understand why the and we have no desire to argue about such pattern varies so widely from year to year, personal preferences. However, it's hard but it does. Some figures on new members to believe that only 297 want certificates. that may interest local section member- Procrastination probably is to blame. W e ship committees are included in Table I. urge all who are interested to act now. Except for January, the lowest percentage each month (slowest rate of enroll/-€^§^«a*^ ment) was in 1946. The highest was in χ 1949, except for January. Applying these
TOTAL D E C . 31
GLC A n o d e s for the electrolytic industry a r e uniform — t h e y s t a n d t h e test of comparison.
FEB.
PER C E N T YEAR'S TOTAL MARCH 1 APRIL 1
1
34 38 43 50 48 43
46 48 56 62 57 59
JULY
7, 1 9 5 2
58 61 68 73 73 69
MAY
67 73 76 82 81 77
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