September 16, 1911
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AT the time of the Columbian Excosition at ChI.cago' m 1893, two hundred chemists of various nationalities convened at the invitation of the American Chemical Society and the \Y orld' s Congress Auxiliary. So success ful was this meeting that it was decided to establish a triennial international congress. Accordingly, the following year the first International Congress of Applied Chemistry was held in Brussels. Since that time, at internlls of two and three years, the Congress has convened at Paris, Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Romc and London. The Se,'enth Congress held in London in 1909 was attended by four thousand vne hundred mcmbers; 985 papers were presented, and the final report of the Congress occupied over four thousand pages in print, The Eighth International Congrcss is to bc held in this country next year, the opening meeting being in Washington, while the Congress proper will hold
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