demonstrated to some extent its application. E. D. Pearce. showed a picture printed by the use of three screens, each carrying a color, but overlapping one another partly. Chas. A. Catlin showed, by means of the microscope and by some photographs, some starch granules with direct light and some with polarized light. WALTER E. SMITH, Secretary. Proceedings. Issued with May Number, 1898. REPORT ON NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUG CONGRESS. The participation of the American Chemical Society in this Congress was due to the receipt of the following letters of invitation : NATIONAL PURE FOOD AND DRUG CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C., February 7, 1898. Prof. Chas. E. Munroe, Columbian University, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: Enclosed please find call for a Pure Food Congress to meet on the second proximo. Your association is entitled to representation in said congress as you will see from the enclosed call. I would be obliged to you if you will kindly furnish me the names of the delegates and their addresses so that I can register them and furnish any information that may be necessary. I am directed by the Local Committee to ask you as a resident of Washington to act as chairman of the committee of three, two others to be appointed by yourself, to serve from your association on the Executive Committee of our Local Pure Food Committee. The meeting of the Local Committee and of the Executive Committee will be held in Parlor 19 at the Metropolitan Hotel on Tuesday next, at 3.00 P.M. I trust that it will be agreeable to you and your associates to be present. Hoping that you will take a decided interest in this important work, I Very respectfully, am, ALEX. J. Wedderburn, Secretary of Committee. WASHINGTON, D. C., February 7, 1898. Prof. Chas. E. Munroe, Columbian University, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR: Replying to yours of this date, I am sorry that I did not make myself clear in requesting you to appoint three members of your society (American Chemical Society), to attend the meeting of the Executive Committee in charge of local arrangements for the approaching Pure Food Congress. This was what I intended to request. In the call for the Congress, the National Chemical Society, meaning the American Chemical Society, are entitled to five delegates. These delegates I presume you should appoint as members of the congress. I am not sufficiently informed in regard to the usages of your society, to know whether it would be your duty or that of each State association to appoint its own representatives. This is a matter which I presume you understand much better than I do. We have sent a copy of the call to every association as far as their names could be obtained. I desire you, as President of the A. C. S., to appoint five delegates, including yourself, of course, at large to act as delegates in the congress, also three members of your association, yourself, and two others, to act upon the Executive Committee, which will meet at Parlor 19, Metropolitan Hotel, to-morrow, Tuesday, at 3:00 P.M. In regard to the financial liability, I can only say that the committee named above, up to the present time, have had no indebtedness incurred whatever, and our Local Committee still has a small amount of money in hand to continue its work of calling the congress together. While I am not authorized to say anything in regard to the matter, I presume when the congress is organized that the functions of our Local Committee cease and all matters of expense, etc., will be in the hands of the congress itself. I presume some small amount of funds, probably two or three hundred dollars, may be needed to pay for the expenses of the congress, printing, etc., which the Executive Committee here may feel that it is to the interest of Washington to be provided by the various business interests of the city. This matter will be, of course, for the Executive Committee to decide for itself. As far as I can see, no association or individual will be called upon to advance more than $2 or $3 at the outside, and of course such contribution would be entirely volunteer on the part of the contributor. I hope that you and your associates will be with us to-morrow evening, and I am sure that we will have your hearty cooperation in this matter of such importance. Very respectfully, ALEX. J. Wedderburn, Secretary of Committee. These letters were forwarded to the Council with the following communication: WASHINGTON, D. C., February 8, 1898. To the Council of the American Chemical Society: GENTLEMEN: I send you herewith copies of letters received from the Secretary of the Committee of the National Pure Food and Drug Congress, and I will have copies of the printed "Call" sent direct to you. I do not fully understand the origin of this movement or the influences behind it, but I do know that it is apparently being taken seriously; that the SurgeonGenerals of the Army and Navy have each designated delegates from their respective corps; and that the ostensible object is to influence legislation. As immediate action in regard to the Executive Committee seemed imperative, I have designated the President, Dr. H. Carrington Bolton and Dr. Wm. H. Seaman as members of the Executive Committee, their appointment and action in this committee to be subject to your approval. To bring this matter before you, I make the following motions: "Moved, That the President appoint five members of the Society as delegates at large to the National Pure Food and Drug Congress. Moved, That the President appoint one member from each of the Local Sections as a delegate from such section to the National Pure Food and Drug Congress. "Moved, That the act of the President in appointing three members of the society as members of the Executive Committee of the Local Pure Food Committee, is approved of and the acts of said members in said Executive Committee are hereby ratified." Respectfully submitted, CHARLES E. MUNROE, President. As these motions were approved by the Council, the following delegates were appointed: Members of Executive Committee of Local Pure Food CommitteeCharles E. Munroe, H. Carrington Bolton, Wm. H. Seaman. Delegates at Large-Henry Leffman, Charles E. Munroe, J. W. Mallet, Charles F. Chandler, Wm. McMurtrie. Delegates from Local Sections-J. Howard Appleton, of Rhode Island Section; E. Twitchell, of Cincinnati Section; C. A. Doremus, of New York Section; W. D. Bigelow, of Washington Section; Edward Hart, of Lehigh Valley Section; A. L. Metz, of New Orleans Section; H. H. Nicholson, of Nebraska Section; J. P. Grabfield, of Chicago Section; F. P. Venable, of North Carolina Section; H. A. Weber, of Columbus Section. The Congress, numbering several hundred delegates, met at the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., on Wednesday, March 2, 1898, and remained in session until Saturday, March 5th. Many addresses were made, among them being that of Dr. W. D. Bigelow, as retiring President of the Washington. Section of this Society on "Legislation in Regard to Food Adulteration," and one by Dr. H. W. Wiley on "Food Adulterations." The greater part of the time was occupied with the discussion of the bill which was introduced in the House of Representatives, on December 18, 1897, by Mr. Brosius. As a consequence of the action of this Congress, the bill was introduced again on March 15, 1898, in the following amended form: A BILL FOR PREVENTING THE ADULTERATION, MISBRANDING, AND IMITATION OF FOODS, BEVERAGES, CanDIES, DRUGS, AND CONDIMENTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ITS TERRITORIES, AND FOR REGULATING INTERSTATE Traffic TheREIN, AND for Other PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of protecting the commerce in food products and drugs between the several States and in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States and foreign countries the Secretary of Agriculture shall organize in the chemical division of the Department of Agriculture a food, beverage, and drug section, and make necessary rules governing the same to carry out the provisions of this Act, under direction of the chief chemist, whose duty it shall be to procure from time to time, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, and analyze or cause to be analyzed or examined, microscopically or otherwise, samples of foods, beverages, condiments, and drugs offered for sale in any State, District of Columbia, or Territory other than where manufactured, or from a foreign country, provided the same be in original or unbroken packages. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to employ such chemists, inspectors, clerks, laborers, and other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, and to make such publication of the results of examinations, analyses, and so forth, as he may deem proper. Sec. 2. That the introduction into any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia or foreign country of any article of food, drugs, or condiments which is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act is hereby prohibited, and any person who shall ship or deliver for shipment from any State or Territory or the District of Columbia or foreign country to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or who shall receive in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia from any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia or foreign country, or who, having received, shall deliver, for pay or otherwise, or offer to deliver to any other person, in original unbroken packages, any such article so adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this Act, or any person who shall sell or offer for sale in the District of Columbia or the Territories of the United States such adulterated, mixed, misbranded, or imitated foods, beverages, condiments, or drugs shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for such offense be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars for the first offense and for each subsequent offense not exceeding three hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 3. That the chief chemist shall make, or cause to be made, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, examinations of specimens of food, beverages, condiments, and drugs offered for sale in original or unbroken packages in any State or Terri |