The Washington herald., 1912-08-05
FAMOUS CHEMISTS
TO GATHER HERE
More Than 5000 Persons Will Par.
ticipate in This Worldwide
Gathering in September.

Scientific management ~ adapted to .
convention win characterize the Eightn
International Congress of Applied Chem
istry which In to meet in New York and
Washington next month. Inasmuch as
this congress has four ofiicial languages
and will be participated in by 500 scien-
lists from twenty-four countries, and
1000 American scientists. there Is need
for scientific arrangements.
For the first time the dictagraph viii
play a part in convention work. More
properly speaking. It is q cousin OF the
dictagraph. in realty q sort OF micro
Rraphaphone, that will be used. Every
speaker will stand under the apparatus
and his words will be recorded perma-
nently on a phonograph cylinder. Thus
will be avoided the customary subsequent
controversies with the stenographer.
which have been classed as an uneco-
nomic waste of energy.
At the banquet at the Waldorf-Astorfa
on the night Of Thursday. September II,
which will close the congress. each OF
the many small tables will be equipped
with q partly concealed, trurnpet-shaped
instrument, which Is an enlarged tele-
phone receiver. The postmaster and
those who will respond to the toasts. In
stead of trying to talk loud enough to
reach every part Of the room, VIII talk
into a. microphone and their words Will
be reproduced at each table.
Publish Daily Paper.
Another new thing will be the presenta-
ton to each member. At the beginning
of the formal meetings at Columbia Uni
versity on Friday. September 6, Of twenty
printed volumes containing the PRO
- he Vet tn come.
Every paper that is to be read. every
formal speech that is to be delivered.
will be there. In this manner all members
will be prepared for the discussion that
will follow the reading Of the papers
Still mother feature will be the print
Ing Of a daily newspaper Of the con-
eress. This will be distributed each
morning and will give. in the four oficial
languages, the full actual proceedings OF
the day previous
Among the more prominent, who will
attend. are the following:
Sir William Ramsay, X. c. B., F. r. g..
the great authority on radium; Sir Bow
erton Redwood, d. Sc. who has visited
every mineral oil district in the world
and is the leading authority on petro-
leum: Sir Robert A. Hadfield. ID. Met.
r. r. g., who developed the manganese.
nickel, and other methods Of hardening
developed the electrical process Of ex-
tracing nitrogen from the air for the
manufacture Of fertilizers: Prof. M. l.
Lindet, representing the French ministry
of agriculture. the foremost proponent
of establishing internationally uniform
methods of analysis. and Prof. William
H Perkin, of the Victoria University Of
Manchester, who Is the father Of the
analine dye industry.
The inaugural session Of the congress
will be held In Washington. on Wednes-
day, September 4. and will be presided
over by President Taft. That afternoon
the President and Mrs. Taft will enter
tain the delegates at a garden party on
the White House lawn.
Following the congress the delegates
will go by special train on a tour Of the
manufacturing centers of the United
States, visiting factories where applied
chemistry Is a feature. especially. The
trip will extend as far as San Francisco
William H. Nichols, SGD. LID, of
New York. Is president Of the congress:
Edward W. Morley. Sc.D., Ph.D., LID,
is honorary president, and Bernhard c.
Hesse, of New York, is secretary.