Evening star., 1919-02-23
DC. MAY invite
DRUG RESEARCHERS
Trade Organizations Want
Chemical Society to Locate
Is; at Capital.
IS. $4,000, 900 PROJECT

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-gmkRoard of Trade and Chamber of
Conrfrerce are planning to invite the
AnseSkcan Chemical Society to consider
waslington as the logical center for
tbe-sxational Institute of Drug Re
search, which the society proposes to
Establish.
Robert n. Harper. president OF the
chamber, and Walter A. Brown, head
tss, she Board of Trade, believe the
chemists of this country would be i'm
prsssed with the suggestion that the
National Capital holds many adVan-
tages- for the proposed institute.
TIC tentative plan of the chemists
iy~ros~launch their research institute
on a basis of 100000. 900, which indi-
Gates that a spacious building might
be erected in the city. from which the
chemists decide to direct their studies.
10 Set Forth Desirability.
The cham ber has drawn up letter.
which probably will be sent to the
cnemtcai society in a few days caii-
ing its attention TO the many aseh-
C4ps in the National Capital Whilch
crrlId give valuable cooperation In
dag research work.
"A uong these agencies the chamber
sal point to the Carnegie Institute, the
hureaff of standards, the United states
taablic health service, the National Geo
graphic Society and the Department OF
agriculture.
President Brown of the Board OF
Fvede- said he would ask his executive
ccs1r4fttee, which meets Monday, To
consider extending an invitation to the
cSseal society to look into the pros
pssfsxAShich Washington holds for such
S.QioNkment as they propose TO launch.
-Tbs.object of the institute viii be to
raakeza thorough study of the effect of
yUs-Ok medicinal substances upon the
human organism. to suggest greater
rnea& for curing the ills of mankind and
tsnSas9ent the abuse of drugs by gaining
a-stfqgr knowledge of their effects.
. Will Estimate Cost.
word has reached here from the
headquarters of the chemical society
in New York that the president, DR..
William H. Nichols, has appointed
special committee to outline the poll
cies and estimate the cost of the pro-
posed institute.
This committee is made UP of prom
fffents chemists, biologists and phar-
macofogists as well as representatives.
ef~-large interests engaged in manu-
featuring pharmacy. 1t includes spe-
ciflists fitted to cope with the numer-
ous lines of study to be followed in
drug research work.
Personnel of Committee.
: The personnel of the committee
famed to make plans for the institute
0llows:
:. DIR. John ]. Abel, professor at Johns
hopkins Medical School, Baltimore,
an investigator of the action of aico-
hol on the body.
.Dr Raymond F. Bacon. director of
Gre Mellon Institute for Industrial
Research. University of Pittsburgh.
who is in charge of important re-
searches on bread. fruit juices, coffee
aYfd other lines of industrial chemis-
frF.
!. Dr. Frank r. Eldred of Indianapolis.
Ind. chief of the scientific depart
ment of a firm of manufacturing
pharmacists.
= DR. Charles H. Herty. editor of the
Journal of Industrial and Engineer
mg Chemistry and former president
eft the American Chemical Society,
New York city.
DIR. Reid Hunt, Cambridge. Mass,
president of the American Society for
Pharmacology and Experimental
therapeutics.
.pr. Treat B. johnson, professor of
arganic chemistry, Yale University.
and a specialist on compounds oc-
curing in the human body.
paxtment of biological chemistry.
Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research, New York city.
Z e. o. Taylor, chairman of the phar-
Tnaceutical division of the American
Chemical Society. Detroit, Mich.