N O V E M B E R 2 0 , 1937 fabrics and irritate sensitive skin. Its continued use causes rotting and complete destruction of fabric. Other supplements often used include organic substances—sugar in particular, and also starch and starch disintegration products. Sugar not only retards the blooming of alkali and other salts, but it also serves in place of glycerol in the manufacture of transparent soaps. According to government chemists, starch contributes no cleansing pow Other c h e m i c a l s a n d related products
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INDUSTRIAL A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
£ · J. Crane Receives Chemical Industry Medal
We ought to have a meeting of the Council this week or next to fix the Exchanges & names of societies with whom we wish to open correspondence. I have sent for the Smithsonian list & handed it to Endemann who, I presume, will be ready to report. I think the arrang't. proposed for the first number very good.
Levene Awarded Nichols Medal
Courtesy, E.
J.
the privileges of membership in the local section, save that of voting and holding office, but are not entitled to any of the privileges of the A. C. S. 3. Student affiliates, first year's dues $2.00, subsequent annual dues $1.00 (paid to the SOCIETY). This is open only to undergraduates majoring in chemistry or chemical engineering. It is not a class of membership in the SOCIETY, but merely an affiliation intended to interest the student in the SOCIETY and to stimulate his con sciousness of the professional side of chemis try. Further details are given in the appro priate By-Laws, NEWS EDITION, September 10, page 380, and in Regulations for Chapters of Student Affiliates, NEWS EDITION. Octo ber 10, page 431.
Tentative Program of S y m posium o n Drying and Air Condi Honing
Bachntrh
Philadelphia, Pa., December 27 and 28
CRANE
LEVEN technical papers on drying and E air conditioning, and a round-table discussion of drying equipment partici-
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HARACTERIZING Chemical Abstracts and the work of its editor as the vital working tool of the chemical profes sion which ha* changed chemists from Lilliputians to Gullivers in the field of sci ence, Albert K. Marshall presented the Chemical Industry Medal for 1937 to E. J. Crane at a joint meeting of the American Section of the Society of Chemi cal Industry and the New York Section of
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pated in by manufacturers' representatives of nine different types of dryers, are the principal features of the Fourth Chemical Engineering Symposium of the Division of Industrial andEngineering Chemistry of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY,
to be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., on December 27 the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY at the CHEMICAL SOCIETY has been awarded for Chemists' Club, November 5. James G. 1938 to Phoebus A. Levene of the Rocke and 28. This Symposium on Drying and Air Conditioning follows symposia on Vail presided and introduced Austin M. feller Institute for Medical Research, Patterson who discussed the career of the New York, "for his study of the configura- distillation, heat transmission, and absorpmedalist. Mr. Crane has been editor of tional relationships of the simpler optically tion and extraction, held at this same time Chemical Abstracts since 1915, having active organic compounds." Presenta for three previous years. The program will open with a paper joined its staff in 1911 after graduating tion will take place at a meeting of the discussing the fundamentals of drying from Ohio State University. New York Section on March 11, 1938. Keynote of the presentation was recog The award is based in particular upon and air conditioning, to provide a theoretical background for the technical papers nition of the vital role of the world s Dr. Levene's contributions of recent years, chemical literature as reviewed continu wherein he has effectively unraveled major which follow. There will be several ously in Chemical Abstracts in the prog roblems in the difficult subject of con- papers reporting research on the mecharess of the science and the industry of gurational relationships in several series nism of evaporation of water into air, a chemistry. of optically active compounds. One of the description of an equilibrium pressure important results of this work has been the chart, and a method for the accurate announcement of a theory of the mecha determination of dew point. Drying nism of Walden inversions from the agents will be discussed in papers on dryAn Early Record ing with activated alumina, and with modern viewpoint. lithium chloride. Papers will be preD. BEROLZHEIMER, in examining some sented on vacuum drying, and on spray • of the documents incidental to the drying. The round-table discussion of current centenarv celebration in memory Students and Their Association drying equipment will deal with rotary dryof Charles F. Chandler, came upon a ers, rotary louvre dryers, steam tube w i t h t h e W o r k o f t h e A . C . S. letter from the first secretary of the dryers, spray dryers, vertical turbo dryers, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY to Professor HE recent enactment of By-Laws crystal filter dryers, drum dryers, aeroChandler, and it is reproduced herewith. authorizing student affiliates has reform dryers, and agitator dryers. emphasized the importance that the Social features will include group New York, June 23d, 1876 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY attaches luncheons on both days, and a dinner proProf. Chas F. Chandler to the early awakening in students of the gram on December 27. The principal Doctor! consciousness that there is a professional feature of this evening program will be a Your favor of June 21st at hand. It is side to a chemical career. For several talk on "Research and Development in hardly for me tofixthe number of copies of years the student membership in the Television" by a recognized authority in the "Proceedings'' but I should suggest 500 SOCIETY has been growing at a most this field. Local arrangements are under on the following basis: gratifying rate. It is hoped that the the direction of Professor N. W. Krase, of We shall have, after next meeting, to sup opportunity now afforded for affiliation of the University of Pennsylvania. ply 200 members. students will extend the influence of the The final program for the symposium We shall want for Exchange, etc. about 100 SOCIETY to a still larger group not yet will be published in the December 10 copies. sure whether or not chemistry will be NEWS EDITION". Abstracts of the papers We shall probably gain within thefirstyear their life work and who, o n that account, to be presented will be mailed to all mem 100-200 additional members: and it, there hesitate immediately to join the SOCIETY. bers of the Division of Industrial and fore, seems to me that we shall not be able All those working with students, however, Engineering Chemistry prior to the to get along with much less than 500 copies. should be aware of the fact that there are meeting. Those interested in member Please see to it that the words "Reprinted three ways in which students can associate ship in the division should communicate from Amer. Chemist etc." do not appear on themselves with the work of the AMERICAN with Howard S. Gardner, Secretary, the cover. CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Μ. Ι. Τ. Field Station, c/o Eastern Mfg. I think also that it would he well to have Co., Bangor, Maine. 1. Student membership, annual dues the list of officers for 1876 printed on inside of ¥6.00 (paid to the SOCIETY) if a subscription cover. (The vacancy in the pamphlet Edit. 44 to one or more of the SOCIETY'S three jour of Constitut." is to be filled up with Walnals is entered at the time of paying dues. dron Shapleigh.) I will send you the proceedings of the June This is the only form of real membership open to students and carries the most prestige meeting in a few days. I bave been laid up and value. with diphtheria and want a day or two to get 2. Local section student associate mem all right again. bers, annual dues $1.00 (paid to the local Very Truly Youre, section). These associates are entitled to all L Wala.
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NEWS E D I T I O N
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P l a n s C o m p l e t e for 1 6 t h Exposition o f Chemical Industries
tow, vice president a n d American repre sentative, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
INAL plans are complete and all is in F readiness for t h e 16th Exposition of Chemical Industries, which will be held
Students9 Course Lectures i n Chemical Engineering
in G r a n d Central Palace, New York, Ν. Υ.. during t h e week of December 6 t o 11. Awards for t h e best replies s u b mitted in t h e contest t o determine a slogan for t h e American chemical in dustry will be awarded a t t h e exposition on Monday evening a t 8:00 P . M . N O R MAN E. D I E H L , of E. I. d u Pont de Nemours •& Co., has been chosen t o receive t h e first prize. T h e following winners of t h e t e n second prizes have all received $5.00 prize awards from t h e Exposition of Chemical Industries:
Editor, D. C ;
R O B E R T D . POTTER, News
Science
Service,
Washington,
EDWARD J . P E C H I N , Advertising
Department, Ε . I . d u Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, D e l j C. H. HAZARD, Hazard Advertising Corp., New York, N.
Y.;
L E N O R E K. M C C A F F E R T Y , Ad
vertising Department, Hercules Powder Co.,
Wilmington,
Del.;
PAUL ELK IN,
Editorial Department, Facts About
Sugar,
New York, N . Y. ; M A T T H E W J. S C H I E B E L ,
Wishnick-Tumpeer, Inc., New York, Ν. Υ.; Louis PAUL FLORY, Boyce T h o m p son Institute for Plant Research, I n c . , Yonkers,
N.
Y.;
FOSTER
D.
SSELL,
Foster D . Snell, Inc., Brooklyn, Ν . Υ . ; R O B E R T H . M U L L E R , Nyanza Color &
Chemical Co., New York, N . Y.; VAN B . H O O P E R , Sales Production Manager, T h e Louis Allis Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Raw materials, chemicals achieved b y chemical synthesis, a n d finished products in t h e making of which chemical science hns played t h e major role will be repre sented among t h e hundreds of exhibits. Synthetic organic chemicals will include a wide range of products. There will b e a great many specialty materials for u n usual applications in industry. Laboratory ware, also the heavy equip ment and furniture for laboratories of educational institutions and industrial plants, will be t h e subject of many e x hibits. A full range of laboratory glass ware for chemical, physical, biological, and metallurgical research will be shown. Features will include low expansion under heat, easy readability, precision markings. Plant equipment a n d processing m a chinery will cover all of the unit processes of chemical engineering; also many opera tions related t o t h e chemical industry. Crushing, grinding, and the separation of solids will be represented by many ex hibits. Filtration, in its relation t o a great range of industries, will be featured by many exhibitors. I n addition t o t h e customary fabric and woven wire media, filter cloth woven of glass will this year be on display. Plastic molding by latest mass production methods will be demon s t r a t e d by operating exhibits. Containers and packaging, important t o so many industries, will be represented b y m a n y exhibits. Materials handling equipment will include hydraulic lifts, stackers, racks, and skids, also conveyors of varied types.
X t h International Congress of Chemistry
I on page 461, we printed an announce m e n t of t h e X t h International Congress N T H E N E W S E D I T I O N for October 20,
•of Chemistry. Forms for membership a n d for offering papers may b e obtained from Herbert R. Moody, National Re s e a r c h Council, 2101 Constitution Ave., Washington, D . C , or from Edward Bar-
T THE' 16th Exposition of Chemical Industries, December 6 to 11, at A Grand Central Palace, New York, Ν . Υ.,
t h e program of t h e students 1 course de signed tor senior and junior college and university students, as well a s men now in industry who desire t o review the especial phases of the technology considered in the lectures, will include discussions upon the topics outlined below. T h e exposition opens on Monday, De cember 6, a t 2:00 p. M. and daily thereafter a t 12:00 noon, from which time until 2:00 p. M. students attending t h e lecture dis cussions, accompanied by a member of the university instructional staff, will have opportunity to study the exhibits in the special phases considered a n d come pre pared to the lecture room. The program will consider new develop ments, devices, machinery, materials of construction, instruments, etc., as illus trated by exhibits a t the exposition and the talks will link u p a s closely as possible with the exposition. T h e lectures will b e given in t h e Stu dents' Lecture Room at t h e exposition from 2:00 to 3:00 P. M. December
7- -JOHN C. OLSES AND JOHN C.
WHITWELL. Fluid Flow, Heat Transfer, and Evapo ration. December
8—ARTHUR S. KOHLER AND G. EDWIN
WHITE.
Instru
ments and Control Devices. Decern lier 9—BARNETT F. DODGE ANT> R. J. F. KUNZ. Distillation,
Absorption, and Drying. December 10- -LINCOLN T. WORK AND H . J.
MASSON
Filtration,
Crushing, Grinding, Classi fication, etc. A program of morning lectures is being prepared for each day, including Tuesday and subsequent days. I t will be necessary for senior and junior students (who only may attend) to be registered in advance for these lectures. T h e students' course a t t h e exposition is being conducted by the following Edu cational Committee: H. J. Masson, Chair man, Harnett F. Dodge, Arthur S. Kohler, R. J. F. Kunz, John C. Olsen,
