Evening star., 1934-03-18
LOCAL CHEMISTS
T0ATTEND PARLEY
American Society to Hold
Conference in Florida
This Month.

A large group of chemists from
Federal laboratories and the educa-
Aional institutions of Washington will
Sparticipate in the eighty-Seventh
Injecting of the American Chemical
Society, to be held in st. Petersburg,
FILA. March Is to 80, according to an
announcement at the national head
1uarters of the society here.
The Washington delegation will be
headed by DR.. Charles L. Parsons,
secretary and business manager, who
pn the opening day of the convention
will present his report TO the board OF
directors, showing that the society,
the largest professional body of its
kind in the world, has emerged from
The depression in a sound condition
bnd prepared to enter upon period of
Increased usefulness to science and
Industry.
Researches ranging from the dra-
bnatic discovery of heavy water, called
fhe starting point of a far-reaching
field in science, to the less spectacular
development Of innumerable products
promising freshened activity and new
markets for industry will be reported
ft the meeting, which will be attended
by more than 1000 delegates from all
parts of the country.
Symposium on Heavy Water.
A feature of the conclave will be
b symposium on heavy water, in which
br. H. G. Brickwedde of the Bureau
bf Standards, who was associated with
Prof. Harold c. Urey and DR.. George
Murphy of Columbia University in the
Giscovery of the fluid, will participate.
Edgar R. Smith of the Bureau OF
Standards will deliver a paper pre-
koared jointly by himself and the late
Dr. Edward w. Washburn of the Bu-
Aeau of Standards, who was a co-dis-
Soverer with Prof Urey of the method
,Df electrolysis as means of extract
$ng the heavy hydrogen atoms from
prdinary water.
Papers will be presented in the Divi-
sion of Physical and Inorganic Chem
Jstry by R. w. Harkness P. H. En-
hnett, c. H Kunsman and R. A. Mel
son of the Bureau of Chemistry and
SOILS, and by r. E. Gibson, geophysical
Laboratory, Carnegie Institution OF
Washington.
Herbert P. Holman and Samuel
Palkin of the Bureau of Chemistry
and Soils speak in the Division of
agricultural and Food Chemistry. Pa
bers will also be presented in this divi
sion by H H Mottern. research
chemist in the Department of Agri-
rulture, and E. NJ. Nelson, director Of
research, Protein and Nutrition Divi-
sion, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
w. A. GernSdorff of the Department
of Agriculture will speak at a joint
session of the Division of Medicinal
and Biological Chemistry March 81
A. H. Emery Of the Bureau of Mines
will participate in the sessions of the
Division of Gas and Fuel Chemistry,
OF which he is secretary.
Other Subjects.
Other fields which will be covered
at the ST. Petersburg meeting are
agricultural and food chemistry. cell
1ulose, chemical education, industrial
land engineering chemistry organic
chemistry, paint and varnish chem
lstry, rubber. sugar, and water. sew
ege and sanitation.
A meeting of the council, governing
body of the society, is among the
events scheduled. Washington'S rep
hesentatives on the council are Charles
"a Browne and Harry G. Knight,
$Bureau of Chemistry and Soils:
Raleigh Gilchrist. Bureau of Stand
iards, and Paul E. Howe, Animal Hus-
1oandry Division, Department of Agri
culture. David B. Jones, Bureau of
Chemistry and Soils, Is chairman Of
the society's Washington division,
and o. E. May, Bureau of Chemistry
and Soils, is secretary.