The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-04
City Full Of Chemists
 For Big Meeting Here
First General Session Begins at Tutwiler This Morning Council Sessions Held Yesterday to Outline
 Plans for Formal Programs

Hotel lobbies and business dis
 tricts were crowded yesterday with delegates and members of the Amer
 ican Chemical society who came to
 Birmingham for the Sixty third an-
 nual convention of the society, which
 will be in almost continuous session throughout the week. The convention
 proper closes Friday with a genuine
 southern style barbecue at Bayview mines.
 The initial session of the society
 was held in the form of a council
 meeting 1t the Tutwiler hotel at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Southern club, when accredited dele gates were registered and general outline made of the weeks program. The first days session included a dinner of the council at the Southern club at 6:30 o'clock at which the Alabama section of the national or ganization were hosts to visiting members, followed by an executive session of the council immediately thereafter.
 Gift of S25,OOO A gift of $25,000 for scientific pub lication work and the announcement of an endowment fund for the pre- sentation of gold medal to be pre-
 sented once every three years to men
 who have performed distinguished service to the science of chemistry
 marked the opening of the sixty third
 meeting of the American Chemical society.
 The Chemical foundation has ap-
 propriated the former sum, to be de-
 voted to the publication during 1922 of "'rhe Formula Index" an import ant collection of scientific data.
 The Priestley medal. so named in
 honor of Joseph Priestley, father of American Chemistry. was announced
 by Dr. Edgar F. Smith, president of
 the society. This medal, which will
 be of gold and valued at s10O will be
 accompanied by funds to pay the
 travelling expense of the recipient
 and to cover the cost of a lecture.
 Strictly Merit It undoubtedly will be sought for
 and highly prized by scientific men. since it is offered by the largest or ganization of scientific men in the world. Dies for striking the medal were turned over to the society by Dr. Smith. The emblem will be given
 strictly on merit for distinguished service, whether the man who per- , forms such service be a member of the society or not.
 Three new sections were approved by the council-one in Honolulu, T. H., one in Sacramento, Cal, and one
 In Morgantown, w. Va.
 The spring meeting for 1923 will be
 held in New Haven, Conn. An invi- tation from California chemists also
 was announced, inviting the society to meet in that state during the sum- r No 1-
 on this invitation
 Anniversary of Society 1nasmuch as the F'iftieth anniver- sary of the society will be in 1926, the council decided that the meeting for that year will be held in Phila- delphia, where the Sesque-centennia exposition will be in progress. At
 that time, appropriate ceremonies will be held in Northumberland, Pa.,
 near Philadelphia. the home of Joseph Priestley and the seat of his many chemical researches.
 It also was suggested that the In- ternational Union of Pure and Ap- piled Chemistry be invited to meet in Philadelphia at that time. The council adopted a resolution calling upon publishers of scientific books to print the dates upon which the material published was prepared or corrected or revised It was said that the failure of American pub fishers to so date their books, has
 led to confusion in giving credit for original research work.
 Today's Program Today's program, which begins the
 real live session of the convention | starts at 10 o'clock at the Tut wiler and is divided into two parts. the afternoon session beginning at 2 o'clock. Address of welcome: Hon. Nathan
 L. Miller, lieutenant governor of Ala bama.
 Response, Edgar r. Smith, presi- dent. American Chemical society Garlic F. Winslow, director, United