Chemists in convention September 6th

Foreign delegates to the coming convention of the American Chemical Society are beginning to arrive in New York preparatory to meeting with probably the largest contingent that has ever visited America in attendance at the convention to be held in Philadelphia, September 6th. Among these early arrivals are Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, principal of the Scottish University of St. Andrews and head of its department of chemistry, Fellow of the Royal Society, Davy Medalist in 1925, and an eminent investigator of carbonhydrates; Leonor Michaelis, Professor of biological chemistry, University of Berlin; Professor Ernst Cohen, Physical Chemistry Dept., University of Utrecht; Dr. Camille Matignon, editor-in-chief of Chimie et Industrie and head of research laboratory in College de France; and Gabriel Bertrand, Professor of biological Chemistry at the Sorbonne, chief of the service of biological chemistry of the Pasteur Institute and internationally known as a devotee of research.