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PARTICULARS of the fifth Congress of Industrial Chemistry, organised by the Société de Chimie Industrielle, are now available. On October 4 there will be an official reception, followed by a musical soiree, in the Hôtel Majestic, Paris. The following day, the Minister of Public Instruction will open the congress in the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, where the international exhibition of the decorative arts is being held, and where all the subsequent meetings will be held. At the opening ceremony, M. L.. Guillet will give an address on the role of French science in metallurgy. Sir Robert Hadfield is contributing a valuable paper on French scientific investigators and institutions and on some unsolved problems relating to manganese steel. October 6 will be devoted to conferences on fuels and on metallurgy; October 7 to meetings of the sections, and a banquet in the evening; and on the final day, October 8, the presidents and recorders will meet, and an address on the refining of mineral oils will be given by Prof. H. T. Waterman, of the University of Delft. The remainder of the week will be spent visiting the exhibition, the Renault automobile works at Billancourt, the dyeworks and vanneries at Saint-Denis, or, alternately, to an excursion to Grenoble, where the international water-power exhibition will be in full swing.