Authors and the international Congress

Abstract

WE ARE all creatures of habit, even members of the American chemical profession. Year after year chemists and chemical engineers present the results of their research work at the spring and fall meetings of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, and year after year authors plan for the spring meeting after the fall meeting, and for the fall meeting after the spring meeting. This year, however, authors must change their established habits if they wish to present papers in September. The program of the fall meeting—the 75th anniversary or Diamond Jubilee meeting of the Society—will consist only of symposia and therefore only of invited papers. Nevertheless, contributed papers can be presented at the XIIth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry which meets the week following the ACS Diamond Jubilee, that is Sept. 10—13. Titles and abstracts of papers are already being received and it is confidently expected that American chemists and chemical engineers will give papers ...