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Abstract

THE closing meeting of the seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry was held on June 2, when Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador, read a letter from the Secretary of State of the United States intimating that the President had approved a joint resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives authorising the President to invite the International Congress of Applied Chemistry to hold its eighth meeting in the United States of America in 1912. The invitation was supported by Dr. Wiley, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., representing the Society of Chemical Industry, and was accepted with acclamation. Prof. E. W. Morley was elected the honorary president of the eighth congress, and Dr. W. H. Nichols the acting president. The official American delegates to the seventh congress were constituted the organising committee of the eighth congress, with power to add to their number.