Evening star., 1933-03-26
5000 Scientists to Hold 85th
Yearly Meeting-Hundreds
of Papers to Be Read.
CHEMISTRY AS RECOVERY
FACTOR TO BE STRESSED
Observance Of Bicentennial Of 10.
seph Priestly Will Be Fea.
ture of Week.

some Of the worlds foremost scientists,
will be in Washington tomorrow for
the opening sessions Of the eighty fifth
annual meeting Of the American Chem
| 1cal Society, at which hundreds OF
papers will be presented, many Of them
with far-reaching implications.
There will be large representations
both OF chemists directly employed in
American industry and those engaged
in pure research work in college and
institution laboratories Chemists from
the various Government laboratories
around Washington will have prom
inent part in the proceedings and they
hope to demonstrate conclusively the
value Of research work under Federal
direction, which, conducted without any
direct aim at profit, Is able to concen-
trate on more fundamental and difficult
problems.
The meetings will be held in three
hotels, the Willard, the Washington
and the Raleigh, with headquarters at
the former The dominant note to be
sounded at all the meetings Is that
chemistry is the driving force to world
recovery and Is at the Threshold of
forward surge which will affect the
whole range Of social and industrial
organization.
Developed Since War.
The great American chemical indus
try, 1t will be pointed out, has devel-
oped largely since the World War, when
America could no longer rely on foreign
sources for some Of the vital necessi-
ties and was forced to develop their
manufacture within her own borders.
The process has been marked in such
RnId fya Hc Y1d fnrti Il
lizers. New outlets for the output of
the farms, new products for the fac
tory and improved processes for the
production of gold and other metals are
said to be in sight.
A notable event Of the week will be
the observance of the 200th birthday
anniversary Of Joseph Priestly, discov-
erer Of oxygen and close friend Of
Washington, Franklin and Jefferson.
An exhibit of Priestleys books and
papers will be shown at the Library Of
Congress and his work will be dis
cussed at a special session headed by
Prof. Frank Burnett Dams Of the Uni
versity Of Kansas.
Heading notable group who will ad-
dress the convention is Dr.. Irving Lang
muir, Nobel Prize winner, who will
speak on Surface Chemistry" at q
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Wednesday at $3.50 pm.
The convention opens tomorrow
morning with a meeting Of the society s
council at the Willard, followed by a
general meeting in the afternoon. at
which Pref. Arthur B. Lamb Of Har-
! ward University, president OF the So
ciety, will preside. Speakers will be
Charles F. Kettering Of Detroit, chief
engineer Of the General Motors Cor
poration; Harry L. Derby. president OF
the American Cyanamid and Chemical
Corporation; Dr. Charles M. A. Stine,
vice president Of the du Pont Co., and
Prof. Hugh S. Taylor of Princeton Uni
versity. This general meeting will be
followed In the evening by an informal
dinner in honor of DR.. Charles E. Mum
roe, past president and only surviving
charter member OF the society.
Section Meetings to Be Held.
The society will break up into section
groups for meetings during the rest OF
the week. Tuesday there will be SYM
postum on insecticides at which there
will be papers by r. c. Roark, chief
chemist of the insecticide division Of
the Bureau Of Chemistry and Soils. Wal
ter Scholl of the Fixed Nitrogen Labora-
tory and w. B. White, chief Of the food
control division Of the Food and Drug
Administration.
Food and vitamin content Of straw
berries, tomatoes, milk and prunes Will
be reported at the session Of the di-
vision of agricultural and food chem
istry Wednesday morning. Factors az
fecting the human liver in health and
disease will be described by DR.. G. A.
Whipple at a symposium on anemia
and blood regeneration, to be held Wed
nesday by the division OF biological
chemistry Prof. Walter H. Eddy OF
Columbia University will present pa
per on hemoglobin tests. Others to
take part in the divisions meetings are
DR.. H. Jensen, Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity; Rev. Francis w. Power. Fordham;
Miss Icie G. Macy Of the Merrill-Palmer
School, Detroit; DR.. L. A. Maynard OF
Cornell University, DR.. John A. Killian,
New York POSTGRADUATE Medical
School; DR. R. Adams butcher, Penn
sylvania State College; Howard H.
Beard, Louisiana State Medical Center; !;
Prof. Robert C.. Lewis, University OF
Colorado School Of Medicine; DR.. Ellice
Mcdonald, director Of cancer research,
University Of Pennsylvania; Prof James
Bryant Conant, Harvard University;
Prof. George o. Burr, University Of
Minnesota; Prof. R. j. Anderson, Yale
University; Miss Florence Walker, New
Jersey College for Women. New Bruns-
wick; Prof. Robert F. McCracken, Med
ical College of Virginia; M. j. Shear,
United States Public Health Service;
DR.. Allan Winter Rowe, Boston Uni
versity Medical School.
Special Symposium Tuesday.
Advances in cellulose. organic chem
istry, petroleum and the soluble Sill
Gates will be made public at a special
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