We just ran across this article from a very old issue of Science, volume 17, number 423, back in 1903. We all sure have come a long way! The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has generously given us permission to reproduce the text of the article below, or you can click the thumbnail of the issue’s cover to be taken to the full article at science.com.
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CORNELL SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
The Cornell Section of the American Chemical Society was organized in December last, and has now received its charter from the national organization. The territory embraced by the section is that lying within a radius of ten miles from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., with headquarters at the university. At the time of organization there were twenty-four members of teh American Chemical Society who became charter mambers of the Cornell section. Since then the membership has increased to forty-four.
The officers for the current year are:
President – Professor L. M. Dennis.
Vice-President – Professor W. D. Bancroft.
Secretary-Treasurer – Mr. W. C. Geer
Executive Committee – Messrs. Dennis, Bancrof and Geer, ex officio, Professor W. R. Orndorff, Mr. J. E. Temple and Mr. J. G. O’Neill.
Councilor from the Cornell Section – L. M. Dennis.
Councilor ex officio – G. C. Caldwell.The meetings of the section are to be held monthly in Morse Hall, Cornell University. The evenings will be occupied largely with original papers read by members of the society, but it is planned to vary the meetings with occasional lectures or addresses by men well known for work in special fields. Thus in the course of the year there will be interspersed with the original papers, addresses on subjects of technical importance and on the more chemical phases of allied sciences. By this means the society will conserve all the fundamental aims of the American Chemical Society, as well as aid in broadening the horizon of the members of the section by keeping them in touch with the progress of those sciences which so frequently extend into the fields of chemical research.
The first meeting was held on the evening of December 15. Papers which presented the results of original work done in the chemical department were read and discussed. Mr. E. S. Shepherd read a paper on the ‘Allots of Lead, Tin and Bismuth’; Mr. G. H. Burrows, on ‘Reduction with Soluble Anodes’; and Mr. J. G. O’Neill on ‘The Determination of the Benzene in Illuminating Gas.’
At the second meeting, which was held on the evening of January 12, the section was addressed by Professor W. D. Bancroft, on the ‘Theory of Indicators.’ The lecturer illustrated his remarks by many experiments which were explained on the basis of the theory of electrolytic dissociation.
The favorable auspices under which the Cornell Section begins existence seems to augur for it a highly successful future.
W. C. Greer,
Greer, W.C. “Cornell Section of the American Chemical Society” Science 17(423). p. 232-233, 1903.
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