The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-02
TAFT TO WELCOME
GREAT SCIENTISTS
Six Hundred Foreign Dele
gates Will Invade Wash
ington on Wednesday.
(NatSonal News Association)

(Nattonal News Associatfon)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.-President
kTaft, Mrs. Taft, Secretary of Agricul-
ture, James Wilson, and a coterie of
the most distinguished men in the
limited States, it became known today,
will greet the 600 foreign delegates to
1.-THE Eighth Annual Congress of APP
lplied Chemistry. scheduled to convene
lin this city next Wednesday.
Following the speech of welcome by
lPresident Taft and other distinguish
ed members of the reception commit
tee, the visiting party of chemists will
he entertained at, lawn party given
sby Mrs. Taft andlthe ladies of the dip
lomatic corps. This entertainment
will be the first of gaysround of ban
Equets, luncheons, receptions, concerts
sand excursions which Will greet the
sdelegates during theirtlengthy stay in
lAmerica.
I More Of Social Event.
| In addition to the 600 foreign visit
ors to the Applied Chemistry Congress,
lover 1000 of the most promising man
Eufacturing chemists in the United
States will attend the deliberations
tof that body. The meeting in Wash
Iington, while the first upon the SEIZED
!ule of the congress is more in the ma
ture of a social event than one of
actual business The first regular ses-
sions of the chemists will be held at
Columbia University, New York, on
September s, terminating on the 13
of the month, during which time every
phase and angle of manufacturing
chemistry will be discussed and ex-
planned by both the foreign and Ameri-
can masters of the science.
Among the many prominent foreign
prs who will be present here on We'd
aesday are Sir William Ramsay, K.
e. B., F. R. S., the great authority on
eadium; Sir Boverton Redwood. D.
&c., who has visited every mineral oil
district in the world and is the leading
authority on petroleum; Sir Robert A.
Hadfield, D. Met. F. R. S., who devel-
Dped manganese nickle and other
methods of heardening steel; DR.. Sam
lel Edge of Norway, who developed
the electrical process of extracting
nitrogen from the air for the manu-
facture of fertilizers; Professor M. L..
I.indet, representing the French Min
istry of Agriculture and Professor
William H. Perkin, of the Victoria
University of Manchester. England,
who is the father of the analine dye
Industry.
From the standpoint of the manufac-
turing chemists the most interesting
features of the congress will be staged
In Columbia University, Nav York.
Here commissions appointed at the
london congress will report on the
nniflcation of methods of food analy-
sis; the unification Of terms for re-
porting the analyticis of soils. fertili-
GERS and ash; the Standardization of
analytical methods to be applied to
resins; the standardization Of tests
nor the stability of explosives; the es-
Establishment of a central bureau of fer
mentation organisms; greater uniform
lily in the commercial supply of potent
drugs and the means for determining
the same; approximation in the phar.
macopoeias of the world to common
standards Of activity and uniform in
ternational patent and trade mark leg
lslation.
To discuss all these varied subjects
the International Congress has been
divided into twenty-four sections, each
section having direct bearing upon
some distinct feature of manufacture
ling chemistry. To accelerate and
demonstrate the addresses and theer.
lies advanced chemical laboratories
within riding distance of Columbia
university have been thrown open to
tthe visitors.