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IN its report for 1932, the Federal Council for Chemistry refers with regret to the necessary postponement of the ninth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry and the eleventh conference of the International Union of Chemistry, which were to have been held in Madrid in 1932. The next meeting of the Union will take place in the spring of 1934 in Madrid, and not in Switzerland, as previously arranged. During the year, the Verein Oesterreichischer Chemiker and the Svenska National Kommitten for Kemie were elected members of the International Union. The report refers to a conference on chemical documentation, held in Paris in October 1932, and indicates that the Federal Council and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the U.S. National Research Council are in complete agreement with regard to certain criticisms of the activities of the International Committee dealing with the reform of biochemical nomenclature. The efforts of the British Standards Institution to extend the use of the words “British Standard” to include “chemical substances used in manufactures, photography, or philosophic research and anti-corrosives” were supported by the Federal Council. The Board of Trade agreed to the Institution proceeding with an application to register provided that it was in a position to submit support from the appropriate trade association or similar body. A significant passage in the report is as follows: “In October, a Committee consisting of Dr. E. F. Armstrong, Mr. E. R. Bolton, Dr. L. H. Lampitt, Prof. G. T. Morgan, Mr. Emile Mond, Prof. J. C. Philip, Sir William Pope, Mr. J. Davidson Pratt, and Mr. D. Rintoul was appointed ‘To consider how the resources of the various bodies concerned with the professional and scientific welfare of chemists can be most economically and efficiently utilised’. This Committee has met on several occasions, and will present, early in 1933, a report on its findings for consideration by the Federal Council.” We shall look forward with interest and expectation to the outcome of the deliberations of so representative a committee, which is dealing with a matter of national as well as professional importance.
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Federal Council for Chemistry. Nature 131, 300 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131300b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131300b0