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AuthoiS of papers. Above. Walter Fuchs of Pennsyl­vania State College. Left. C. E. Reed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

/Above. F. M . Whitacre of Case, member of the Local Arrangements Committee, and T. Chilton :>f d ι Pont. Below. C. C. Furnas of Yale, L W . Bass of Mellon Institute, and C. F. Prutton, chairman of the Local Arrangements Committee, at the banquet.

THE eighth annual Chemical Engineering Symposium, Division of Industrial and

Engineering Chemistry, A. C. S., at Case School of Applied Science, December 29 and 30, 1941, was attended by 116 engi­neers who heard and discussed 13 papers on aplied thermodynamics The pro­gram appeared on page 1418, N E W S EDI­TION*, December 10, 1941. The two-day meeting, held every year during the Christmas period to enable academic as well as industrial representatives to at­tend, was opened with introductory re­marks by W. E. Wickenden.

A meeting of the executive committee was held at the close of the Monday after­noon session. The resignations of C. C. Furnas, chairman of the Symposium Com­mittee, and W. L. McCabe were accepted. (). A. Ilougen, I'niversity of Wisconsin, was made chairman of the Symposium ( 'ommittee, C. M. Cooper was appointed in place of W. L. McCabe, and another member was added, Κ. Μ. Watson. A symposium title for the 1942 Christmas session (Process Design with Emphasis on Reaction Rates) was suggested and it was tentatively accepted by the committee. Monday evening a banquet was held at the headquarters hotel, the Tudor Arms. M. J . Rentschler acted as toastmaster and A. A. Bates, director of chemical research at the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., spoke on Metals us. Plastics.

The symposium will be printed in Indus­trial and Engineering Chemistry and ab­stracts of the papers are available from Whitney Weinrich, Secretary, Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.

During the symposium there were many requests for thermodynamic data to be used in connection with defense projects. The Cryogenic Laboratory and the new Thermochemical Laboratory of the School of Chemistry and Physics of The Pennsyl­vania State College will be glad to receive suggestions and inquiries as to any part it can play in obtaining adequate data as quickly as possible for use in defense studies or industries. Apparatus is avail­able for complete entropy measurements, including vapor pressure data and heats of vaporization. Apparatus for work on accurate heats of combustion and on accurate gaseous heat capacity measure­ments up to 600° C. is nearly completed. Correspondence should be addressed to J. G. Aston or Frank C. Whitmore at Pond Laboratory, State College, Penna.

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Above. E. D. Wilson, Worcester Polytech­nic Institute, and L. W . Bass, Mellon In­stitute. Below. T. Chilton, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., E. A . Arnold of Case, member of the Local Arrangements Commit­tee, and B. F. Dodge of Yale University.

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