The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-25
STATE CHEMISTS
MET YESTERDAY
Committee Appointed to Ask
Congress
70 ESTABLISH A BUREAU
OF WEIGHTS AND. MEASURES
FOR COAST SURVEY.
70 ESTABLISH A BUREAU
INTERESTING AND VALUABLE PAPER
Read and Officers Chosen for The Ensuing Yea'
State Chemist kilgore, President; ".
J. Martin, Vice-President; CD.
Williams, Sec'y.Trcas.

Yesterday at noon in the office Of State
Chemist kilgore the fourth am
nual meeting Of the North
Carolina Section of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society Was called to order
by the presiding offer, DIR. Charles
Baskerville, Associate Professor of
Chemistry in the University of North
Carolina. These meetings are a source
of great enjoyment and profit to all
chemists who attend. They come here
imbued with the scientific spirit, always
anxious to learn and ever ready to i'm
part knowledge they have themselves
gained.
The members look forward from one
meeting to the next with great deal OF
anxiety. Teachers of Chemistry in the
colleges and the University of the State
are glad to come in contact and discuss
vital subjects pertaining to chemistry
with those men who devote q greater
part of their time and energies in the
prosecution OF work connected with
public and private laboratories. Il af-
fords mutual benefit to both teacher
and analytical chemist.
Drs. Venable, Kilgore and Withers
We're appointed committee TO draft a
resolution petitioninc Congress to take
immediate action in the equipment. with
both apparatus and men, the Bureau
of Weights and Measures Of L. s. Coast
and Geodetic Survey SO that the produc-
ton and verification Of yolum2tric appar-
atus cam be done with great facility and
accuracy. Our Government is very
derelct in this respect, and in conse-
qllence tine German Chemists have been
getting a greater part of the orders for
fine graduated and elaborated apparatus
used in the leading laboratories in this
country. A similar resolution TO the one
that will most probably be adopted by
the committee from the North Carolina
Section will be adopted by the other
Sections of the American Chemical So
ciety at their next meeting. 1t is a
source Of great pride 10 this Section that
it was the first to take UP the subject
of unification of the systems of produc-
ton and celebration of volumetric APP
paratus. To Prof. Kilgore, State Chem
list, is due the honor of being first to bring
this matter before the Section in paper
entitled "A Unit of Volume" at the
summer meeting Of 1897.
Since then the American Association
Of Official Agricultural Chemists and
the American Chemical Society have
taken up the matter in earnestness
Upon recommendation of the member
ship committee, Messrs w. A. Syme Of
Raleigh, and j. f. Mills, of Chapel Hill.
We're elected members upon condition
that they become members of the
American Chemical Society.
The following papers were read and
discussed
Temperature for the graduation Of
volumetric apparatus for Southern
Laboratories" by 3. W. Kilgore.
ION the Qualitative Determination Of
Lime Arsenic and Antimony by
Charles Baskerville.
Radioactive Bodies" F. =. Venable.
variable Ammonia Results in Mixed
Fertilizers" by c. B. Williams.
Chemical Economics" by Charles
Baskerville.
This last paper by DIR. Baskerville
was his address as retiring president Of
the Section. 1t was much enjoyed by
the members of the Section as was
shown by their giving him a unanimous
vote Of thanks.
The officers elected for the ensuing
year were: President, B. W. Kilgore,
Raleigh; vice president. w. ]. Martin,
Davidson College; secretary and treasur-
er, c. =. Williams Raleigh and repre-
sentative in the council Of the American
Chemical Society for 1901, Charles
baskerville. Chapel Hill.
DIR. G.. S. Traps, of the Experiment
Station; Prof ]. l.. Kesler. of the Bap-
fist Female University; w. NJ. Allen,
of North Carolina Department of Agri-
culture, and Messrs. ohm Birdsong, s.
\. Vest G. +. Harrell and 1. O..
Schaub, graduate students of the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College, were
present.
The members Of the Section who
were present were Drs. Venable, Basker-
vile, Kilgore, Withers, Pickel, Asbury,
Bizzell Haywood and Williams.
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