SHEETINGS kM Indiana Chemists Hold Chemistry Career Symposium

T h e Southern Indiana Section of the ACS and the Indiana Chemical Society will hold a joint meeting and symposium on Oct. 17 at Indiana University. Bloom-ington, Ind. The topic of the symposium will be Fostering Interest in Chemistry <*nd three papers "will be given, each with a discussion. Afterwards there will b e a coffee hour, dinner will be in the union building, and those at tending will be "Dutch t reat" guests at a university play after dinner. The symposium program folio ws :

R. W. L E F L E R . - Popularizing Chemistry in t he Public Schools.

R. L. SHELLEY. Workshops for Teachers. R A L P H BROYLES. Stimulating Public In­

terest.

Pittsburgh Section of ACS Celebrates Golden Anniversary

T h e Pit tsburgh Section of the ACS, which was founded in 1903, will celebrate its golden anniversary at a banquet Sept. 17 at the Hotel Webster Hall in Pitts­burgh . An afternoon program includes nationally prominent chemical administra­tors, who will participate in a symposium on The Principal Functions of American Research Institutions.

CLYDE W I L L I A M S . Nonprofit Industrial Research Institutions.

R A Y M O N D STEVENS. Private Consulting Laboratories.

E . V. M U R P H R E E . Industrial Labora­tories.

H. E . LONGENECKER University Re­search.

E d w a r d R. Weidlein, director of Mellon Institute, will deliver the principal ad­dress at the banquet , on Pittsburgh as a Research Center. Chester G. Fisher, a 50-year member of the section who has written its history, will speak briefly on the section's half century of progress.

Army Ordnance Sponsors Symposium

A symposium on Inorganic Peroxides, Superoxides, and Peroxyhydrates will be held Sept. 14 and 15 at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia. I t will be sponsored by the Office of Ordnance Research, U . S. Army and will be unclassified. Following is the list of papers to b e given:

MONDAY MORNING

C. C. F A W C E T T . Introductory Remarks. JACOB KLEINBERG. Some Aspects of the

Chemistry of the Alkali Metal Superoxides. P, W s G I L L E S . J. MARGRAVE, The

Thermodynamics of the Superoxides. G. L. C U N N I N G H A M . A New Cyclic

Process for the Preparation of Oxides, Peroxides, Peroxyhydrates, and Super-

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MONDAY A F T E R N O O N

A. SHOCHET, G. K M E C I K . A Corrobora­tive Study of the Existence of Alkaline ttarth Superoxides.

A. S H O C H E T , R. Cox. A Titrimetric Method for the Determination of Alkaline Earth Superoxides.

G. KMECIK, A. SHOCHET. Studies on the Preparation of Alkaline Ear th Superoxides.

E. S. S H A N L E Y . Properties and Uses of Peroxyhydrates.

TUESDAY MORNING

C. B. JACKSON. Preparation and Use of Potassium Superoxide.

W . H. SCHECHTER. Fur ther Studies on the Preparat ion of Sodium Superoxide.

R. S. JOHNSTON, E . D . OSGOOD, R. R. MILLER. Preliminary Studies of Calcium Superoxide.

A. J. C O H E N . Preparation of Lithium-Oxygen Compounds.

A L B E R T PAVLIK, JR . Some Interesting Facts Concerning Barium and Strontium Peroxides.

TAPPI Arranges Paper-Plastics ConcSave

T h e State University of New York Col­lege of Forestry at Syracuse will be the scene of the ninth Paper-Plastics Confer­ence Sept. 15 and 16. T h e conference is sponsored by the plastics committee of the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Over 200 persons repre­senting industry and education are ex­pected to attend.

The program will be divided into three sessions: New Resin Developments; De ­velopments in the Application of Resins to Paper ; a n d The Beater Addition of Resins. Luncheon meetings will be held at Drumlins Country Club.

Vivian T. Stannett, assistant professor of polymer chemistry, is secretary of the program committee of the conference.

Trade Association Technical Problems t o Be Discussed

Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of Technology and the Trade Association Executives Forum of Chicago will co-sponsor a conference on trade as-S U U l c l U U l l L C U H I l t t t l p i u u i c u i a C*L ui.10 J- V C U

nology Center , Tuesday, Nov. 17. Members of the American Trade Asso­

ciation Executives and other association executives are being invited to attend the one-day affair, called the Trade Associa­tion Technical Conference

T h e symposium is designed to show how any association, including limited budget groups, can play a vital technical role for its members in research, gathering and utilizing information, industry-wide testing and standardization, technical and eco­nomic predictions through research, and training for industry production men.

T h e morning session will b e devoted

to speakers from t rade associations which have active technical programs benefiting their industries. T h e afternoon session will consist of a round-table discussion.

NACE to Hold

T h e 1953 fall conference of the western region of ÙIG National Association of Corrosion Engineers will be held Nov. 19 to 20 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los An­geles, Calif, T h e meeting will feature two technical sessions—one on refinery corro­sion problems a n d the other on aircraft corrosion problems. The technical prac­tices subcommittee on corrosion of oil and gas well equipment and the subcom­mittee on asphalt type underground pro­tective coatings will hold meetings.

The south central region of the NACE will meet Oct. 7 to 9 at the Mayo Hotel in Tulsa, Okla. An open session of the technical practices committee on cor­rosion of oil and gas well equipment will be held. A forum on pipeline corrosion and three symposia—oil and gas produc­tion, processing plants, and oil and gas transportation—have also been arranged.

The Central ' Oklahoma section of the NACE is cooperating with the University of Oklahoma in sponsoring a corrosion conference at the university Dec. 1 to 4.

At the 10th annual conference and exhi­bition of NACE in Kansas City, Mo., next March 15 to 19, a Refinery Industry Sym­posium has been scheduled, with two formal papers and a round-table discus­sion of corrosion problems.

Ways of Science Conference Roosevelt College in Chicago will hold

its fourth annual Ways of Science Con­ference Oct. 17 at v/hich noted scientists and philosophers will examine methods by which subjects for study and research are determined.

The practical and theoretical approaches to this question will b e presented by Richard McKeon, distinguished service professor of philosophy and Greek at the University of Chicago, and Haldon A. Leedy, vice president and director of the Armour Research Foundation.

The conference is sponsored jointly by Roosevelt College and the Philosophy of Science Association.

Sewage and Industrial Waste Associations Meet

The Federation of Sewage and Indus­trial Wastes Associations will meet in the Municipal Auditorium at Miami, Fla., Oct. 13 to 16. Fur ther details may be obtained from W. H. Wisely, 325 Illinois Bldg., Champaign, 111.

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124th National Meeting, Chicago, 111. Sept. 6-11,^1953.

125th National Meeting, Kansas City, Mo. March 24-Apri l 1, 1954.

126th National Meeting, New York, Ν . Υ. Sept. 12-17, 1954.

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Meetings in 1954 Analy t ica l C h e m i s t r y e n d A p p l i e d . jpactrOS^opy Conrrereitce

The Analytical Chemistry Group of the Pittsburgh Sec t ion of the ACS and the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh will hold the Fifth Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry a n d Applied Spec­troscopy at the William Penn Hotel March 1 to 5, 1954. A largcr-ihan-usual exhibit of chemical and spectroscopic laboratory equipment is b e i n g arranged. Social high­lights will i n d u c t e the conference dinner and social hour .

Contributed papers are invited on all phases of analytical chemistry and in­strumental analysis including emission spectroscopy, m a s s spectrometry, infrared and ultraviolet spectroscopy, and x-ray fluorescence analysis. Most of the chemi­cal papers will b«e scheduled early in the week and the various phases of instrumen­tal analysis t he latter par t of the week. Those who 'wish t o submit a paper should notify the prograxn chairman, R. G. Rus­sell, Gulf Researc\h and Development Co., P.O. Drawer 20-38, Pit tsburgh 30, Pa., before NOV. 20, 1953. Title, authors, and approximate presentation time should be given, and triplicate copies of the ab­stract and dup l i ca t e copies of all corre­spondence wil l b e appreciated.

1954 M e d i c i n a l Chemis t ry Symposium

The 1954 Medicinal Chemistry Sym­posium of the Division of Medicinal Chem­istry of the ACS will b e held June 17 to 19, 1954, in Syracuse, Ν . Υ. The meeting will be under the general chairmanship of Amel Menotti of Bristol Laboratories, Inc., Syracuse, \T. Y.

Brewing Chemis ts P lan 1954 Convent ion

The American Society of Brewing Chem­ists is planning a. meeting in Milwaukee on May 9, 1954. Solicitations will shortly be in the mails t o all society members for papers to be r e a d at t h e meeting.

Phi Psi Text i le F r a t e r n i t y The 51st a n n u a l convention of the Phi

Psi Textile Fra terni ty will be held at the Carolina, Pinehurst , N. C , Feb . 25 to 27, 1954.

Prote in M e t a b o l i s m Conference a t - Rutgers

The Tenth Annual Conference on Pro­tein Metabolism sponsored by the Bureau of Biological Research of Rutgers Uni­versity will be field in New Brunswick Jan. 29 and 30, L954. General subject of the conference wi l l be "Serological Ap­proaches to S tudies of Protein Structure and Metabolism." Reports will be given on proteins as an t igens a n d antibodies, the precipitin r e a c t i o n and studies of native and denatured p-xotcins and derivatives, light scattering and ultracentrifugation

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methods in studies of precipitin systems and their application to human metabolism, immunological analysis of the biosynthesis of a protein, use and limitations of serum agar techniques, and measurement and significance of serological correspondence among proteins.

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The 8th National Chemical Exposition by the Chicago Section of the ACS will be held in the Coliseum in Chicago Oct. 12 to 15, 1954. AiChE Schedules Nexv Year's Meetings

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has scheduled the following meetings for next year:

Washington, D. C., Hotel Statler, March 8 to 10, 1954

Springfield, Mass., May 16 to 19, 1954 Oleawood Springs, Colo., Hotel Colo­

rado, Sept. 12 to 16, 1954 New York. Ν. Υ. (annual meeting),

Hotel Statler,' Dec. 12 to 15, 1954

Plant Maintenance Show Moves to Chicago

The Plant Maintenance Show, held for the past four years in the East, will move to Chicago for the 1954 exposition, and its name will be changed to the Plant Maintenance and Engineering Show. The exposition will take place at the Interna­tional Amphitheatre, Jan. 25 to 28, 1954. It will cover more than 100,000 square feet of exhibit space, which is about one third larger than the 1953 show and about six times the size of the first ex­hibit. To date 310 companies have been assigned space, and the final total is ex­pected to reach 350.

Concurrently with the show, the Plant Maintenance and Engineering Conference will be held at the Hotel Conrad Hilton.

Advance registration cards may be ob­tained from Clapp & Poliak, Inc., 341 Madison Ave., New York 17, Ν Υ.

SPI Reinforced Plastics Division The reinforced plastics division of the

Society of the Plastics Industry will meet during the week of Feb. 1, 1954, in the Edgewater Beach Huiel, Chicago. In an attempt to plan well in advance for future meetings of the division, the policy com­mittee of the division hopes to schedule annual conferences during the first full week in February of each year.

Plastics Exposition Goes on Next June

The Sixth National Plastics Exposition, sponsored by the Society of Plastics Indus­try, will be held the week of June 6, 1954, at Cleveland, Ohio, in the Cleveland Audi-torium. All branches of the industry will exhibit at the exposition, which will be open to representatives of business, in­

dustry, and the military, but not the general public. Harry Grunnagle of West-inghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., is serving as chairman of the exposition committee.

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Sciences will hold its sixth annual meeting Feb. 25 to 27, 1954, ai the Drake Hotel, Chicago. Titles of all papers to be read must be submitted to the program chair­man, Milton Helpern, 106 East 85th St., New York 28, N. Y., before Nov. 1, 1953.

Canada Host to Internat ional Plastics Conference

The 10th Annual Technical Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers will

be held at the Royal York Hotel in To­ronto, Ont., Jan. 27 to 29, 1954. Delegates will represent the U. S., Canadian, and foreign plastics industry. Theme of the conference is to be "Plastics ïiiteriiaiiuiiai."

The sessions will open with a symposium on the developments and applications of modified styrene. Technical papers will be heard on film and sheeting, properties of Mylar film, marking and decorating of plastics, plastics material problems in the power distribution field, automatic mold­ing of thermosetting plastics and automatic thermoplastic molding with air operated presses. A demonstration will be given on reinforced plastics molding.

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Society of Chemical Industry will hold as part of its program next season a sym­posium on The Chemistry and Physics of Synthetic Fibers. The symposium will be held March 24 to 26, 1954 in the lec­ture theater of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London.

Papers will be presented and discussed on the chemical and physical basis of fiber formation and the properties of fibers in relation to the molecular structure and conditions of formation. In order to limit scope of the symposium, the process of

dyeing, properties of textiles, economics of the industry, and historical surveys will not be included as major items. It is hoped that there will be a number of for­eign contributions in addition to the papers already promised from all the major organi­zations dealing willi synthetic fibers in the UK. Preprints will be available and authors are asked to submit manuscripts before Nov. 1 so that these can be pre­pared. Further information may be ob­tained from A. R. Burgess, SCI, 56, Victoria St., London, S.W. 1, England.

Sugar Analysis Subject of Paris Conference

The eleventh session of the International Corrirnission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis will be held in Paris, France, June

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9 to 12, 1954. In the event that it is im­possible to complete the agenda in that timej Monday June 14 will be available. H i e eleventh session is being sponsored by the National Syndicate of Sugar Manu­facturers of France under the presidency o£ Louis Beaucharnps and the French Na­tional Committee of the commission.

Internat ional Instrument OcRQress and exhibition Flashed

The instrument Society of America and various other associations and societies will cooperate in staging the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition in Pliiladelphia Sept. 13 to 24, 1954. The congress will last two weeks but the ex­position only one. Porter Hart, president o£ ISA, and Richard Rimbach, managing director of the congress and exposition, have just returned from a European trip on which they met with instrument users, manufacturers, and foreign government representatives and discussed the aims for trie meeting.

About 100,000 square feet of exhibit space will be used and 30,000 visitors are expected. It is estimated that about 1000 Europeans will register at the congress and exposition. Mi lan Samples Fair Invites Foreign Visitors

The date of the Milan Samples Fair for 1954 has been set for April 12 to 26, with the addition of two days, April 27 and 28, reserved for buyers directly invited by ex­hibitors and for foreign visitors. The fair has met with increasing success each year. Total number of exhibitors this year was 11,486, foreign exhibitors, 3543. Visitors totalled well over 4 million and 30 coun­tries were represented in the displays.

The 1954 program will have a new three-story pavilion with usable space of about 9500 square meters, and other ex­pansion in space is being arranged.

Internat ional Coal Gasification Conference

The Institut National de l'Industrie Charbonnière (National Institute of Coal Industry) is organizing an international conference on complete gasification of coal to be held May 3 to 8, 1954, in Liege, Belgium. Further information may be ob­tained from J. Venter of the organization a t 7. Bd Frere-Orban, Liege, Belgium. The meeting will be followed by a visit to the principal gasification ylcuiL· of YvTeslerr* Europe.

Analyt ica l Symposium Planned in England

A Symposium on Analytical Chemistry -will be sponsored by the Midland Society for Analytical Chemistry in Birmingham, England, Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, 1954. It will consist of original papers and recent advances in various analytical fields. An exhibition of new and special apparatus will be held simultaneously and visits to local places of interest will be arranged. A ladies* committee will orgauize enter­tainment for nonscientific visitors.

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