The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-07-01
SCIENTISTS WITH US
Division of Industrial Chemists
and Chemical Engineers
Formed.
A. D. LITTLE IS CHAIRMAN
Members of Society VIII Go to An
sonia To-day to Visit Brook
er's Plants.

AT the afternoon session of the
thirty eighth general meeting Of the
American Chemical society held at
North Sheffield hall yesterday after
noon a division of the Industrial
Chemists and Chemical Engineers
was formed. The division starts with
a membership of about fifty, but be-
fore the meeting ends 1t is expected
that there will be at least double this
number
After the division was organized A.
d. Little of Boston was elected chair
man for the coming year and A. H.
Lowe Of Denver was chosen vice
chairman. The secretary elected is
w. II. Hyde OF New York, An exec
utlve committee for one year is to be
appointed by Mr.. Little.
Beside the formation of a division
of the Industrial Chemists and Chem
ical Engineers. there were meetings
of two of the sections of the society,
The Agricultural and Food Chemistry
section, of which A. L. Winton Is
chairman, met and G. s, Traps read
two very interesting papers. one on
The Estimation of Cottonseed Hulls
In Cottonseed Meal and the other
on The Availability OF the Active
Nitrogen OF the Soil" A third paper
on The Composition Of Known Sam
Piles OF Paprlka," written Jointly by
r. f. Doolittle and A. w, Ogden, was
read.
The physical chemistry section, OF
which Frank x. Cameron Is chairman,
also met. W. Lash Miller OF Toronto
read a paper on THE Behavior OF
Colloidal Metals with Immiscable Sol
vents" and Bertram 3. Roltwood OF
New York read papers on The
Source OF the Thorium Dlsintegration
products present in the atmosphere
and THE Presence Of Lead In AUTH
mite and Other Secondary Uranium
Minerals. "
Last evening the 200 delegates who
are here from all over the country
enjoyed complimentary smoker al
the Graduates club on Elm street
given by the members OF the society
who live In Connecticut. This morn
ing the second general session will be
held and there will be three address
es "A Discussion OF Some Of the
Methods used In Determining the
Structure OF Organic Compounds" by
william Mcpherson: "Our Present
knowledge OF Plant Proteins' by
Thomas B. Osborne; Some Applica.
tons Of Physical Chemistry" by
Frank K. Cameron
In the afternoon the 200 delegates
will make an excursion 10 Ansonia &c
visit the works OF the Ansonia Brass
and Copper company, and the Cot
Brass Manufacturing company, by
invitation Of Charles F Broker pres
ident of those concerns. The carr
will return late In the afternoon ant
after an hours ocean bathing dinner
will be served at the Momauguin
! The first session opened yesterday
morning in North sheffleld hall witt
an address of welcome by Presiden
Hadley He offered the delegates thu
freedom of the university and urgec
them to come often, both to meeting
OF organizations. to which they be
longed, and as private citizens.
The response to the welcome wa
given by President Marston F.. Boyer
OF the department OF inorganic chem
istry In Columbia. President Boyer
called to mind the fact that the so
ciety held It's first annual meetlnt
here In 1899, when the organization
was a very small one Since then
has grown very rapidly until It nov
numbers 1000 members.
Among the members Of the council
who have already registered are Mars
ton II. Bogert, the president OF the so
clety. who is professor OF inorgani
,, chemistry at Columbia; Prof Charlie
L. Parsons of Durham State college
Durham, N. H., who Is the secretar
of the association; A. P, Hallock O
New York city, chemist at the " I
Schultz Water company: 7. j, Parker
of the General Chemical Co, Ne'
, York: Charles r Munroe, dean 0
George Washington university; "
Lash Miller professor of physica
I chemistry at the University of Toron
5 to. William McMurtrie, vice presiden
\ of the Royal Baking Powder Co
: Prof. A. A. Noyes, acting presiden
9 of the Massachusetts Institute c
r Technology; n. w, Wiley, head Of tn
d pure food department at Washing
y ton
s. David Wesson OF Montclair, chile
Y chemist of the Southern Cotton q
e Co; william Mcpherson, chemist
Ohio State university; Frank X. Cam
: eron. chief chemist of the bureau {
soils at Washington; W. X. Robbins
!. chief chemist of the Amoskeag corpc
l ration at Manchester, N H.; Charlie
II. Herty, head Of the chemical dc
I partment of the University of Mort
Carolina II. n. Lewis, professor
I physical chemistry at the Massachr
( setts Institute OF Technology; T.. n
\ Chamot of Cornell, and l., A. Olne'
chemist at the Lowell Textile work