Meeting of the American Chemical Society

The seventieth meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held at Los Angeles during the week of August 8th; it is expected that more than 1500 scientists from the United States and Canada will attend. The central theme will be “The Mystery of Matter,” and at the big general meeting Doctor W. R. Whitney, director of the research laboratories of the General Electric Company, will deliver what is announced as an “illustrated experimental address” on “Matter — Is there Anything in It?” Other speakers at the meeting will be Prof. Alexander Findley of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and Prof. Alonzo B. Taylor of Stanford University. Many interesting subjects have been chosen for presentation and discussion, including several agricultural applications of the profession, German competition with the American wood alcohol industry, the progress of dyes in treating diseases, developments in the quest of a new and cheaper motor fuel and the general expansion of the chemical science both in industry and education.