No changes or additions to these methods were made at the 1917 meeting. XXVIII. BAKING POWDERS. The association at the 1917 meeting on report of Committee C adopted the following recommendation1: That the modified Corper-Bryan method for the electrolytic determination of lead in baking powders' be adopted as a tentative method. This method, 33 and 34, has been inserted in the manuscript of the revised methods. XXIX. DRUGS. On report of Committee B, the association at the 1916 meeting adopted the following recommendations3: (1) That the methods for the determination of strychnin in tablet triturates' be made provisional. (2) That the method for the determination of strychnin in liquids' where it occurs as the only alkaloid be made provisional. These methods, 31 and 32, were overlooked in the 1917 Report of the Committee on Editing Methods of Analysis. They have, however, been inserted in the manuscript of the revised methods. On report of Committee B, the association at the 1917 meeting adopted the following recommendation": That the method for the determination of atropin in tablets, with the following change relative to drying the alkaloidal residue, be made tentative: "Dry in vacuo to a constant weight, and weigh as atropin." This method, 33, has been inserted in the manuscript of the revised methods. REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE BAUMÉ SCALE1. Your committee begs leave to submit the following recommendation: That the Baumé scale of the Bureau of Standards (Modulus 145), Table 312, be adopted as the official Baumé scale of the association, and that all Baumé tables and references thereto which are not in accordance with this scale be eliminated from the methods of the association; and further, that the Committee on Editing Methods of Analysis be authorized to make such changes in the text of the Chapter on Saccharine Products as may be necessary to make this recommendation effective. REPORT OF SECRETARY-TREASURER FOR By C. L. ALSBERG (Bureau of Chemistry, 1916 RECEIPTS Nov. 12 Bank balance.. $139.651 1918 Apr. 20 Dues from 3 institutions (Alabama, Massachusetts and South 15.00 Nov. 16 Dues for the year 1918, from 71 Federal, State, Municipal and 355.00 1919 Nov. 15 Dues for the year 1919 from 68 Federal, State, Municipal and 340.00 $849.65 1 This balance differs from the balance noted in the Secretary-Treasurer's report of 1917, due to the fact that two checks, Nos. 84 and 85, for $2.86 and $5.00 respectively, were drawn on C. L. Alsberg's personal account in error, reimbursement for which is taken care of in Check No. 112, reported under disbursements. Jan. 2 Delos M. Carter, to complete payment for editing May 15, Byron S. Adams, printing 1000 cooperative circulars. Post office box rent for quarter ending September 30, 1918.. Post office box rent for quarter ending December 31, 1918.. Telegrams. Feb. 1 C. L. Alsberg, reimbursement for checks (Nos. 105 and 106) Feb. 1 1000 two-cent special request envelopes. Mar. 21 Post office box rent for quarter ending June 30, 1919. Apr. 11 Postage. 10.00 111 Apr. 12 C. L. Ålsberg, reimbursement for checks (Nos. 84, 85 and 104) 14.61 112 June 23 July 18 Post office box rent for quarter ending September 30, 1919. 2.00 113 4.65 114 Post office box rent for quarter ending December 31, 1919.. 2.00 117 Nov. 5 Telegrams.. 12.53 118 Nov. 7 Stationery. 6.10 119 Nov. 10 Postage. 10.00 120 Nov. 13 2500 one-cent stamped envelopes. Nov. 14 Reimbursement, two telegrams. Nov. 15 Bank balance. Less checks out. The undersigned committee has examined the above report and finds it correct. Adopted. G. L. BIDWELL, E. M. BAILEY, W. F. HAND. Auditing Committee. REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDITORS. By C. L. ALSBERG (Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C.), Chairman. I reported at the last meeting1 that we were in trouble with the publisher, or rather, the printer. I had thought it would be possible to adjust these differences in some manner. As a matter of fact, however, the printer has sued the association, and possibly the case will come to trial in the next two or three years in the District of Columbia. The association has been assured by its attorneys, however, that they have no doubt whatever as to the issue, so arrangements were made a few weeks ago to pay no further attention to the former printers, and another printer has been secured to print The Journal. The copy for the next number, Volume III, No. 2, went to the printer some weeks ago, and it was hoped that that number could be distributed before this meeting. That was not possible; in the main, because the association owed a certain responsibility or duty to its advertisers, and the former printers, the Williams and Wilkins Company, refused to give us any information concerning the status of contracts made on behalf of The Journal with advertisers. It was, therefore, necessary to correspond with each individual advertiser who had advertised in The Journal to ascertain what the status of his contract was, and to get him to submit new copy. That has been done, and the next number of The Journal will appear within ten days. In order to make sure that you will feel this is not a hope but a certainty, we had the printer make up a couple of sample copies of the next number of The Journal, and, as an evidence that work is really progressing, I beg to pass this particular copy around. There is nothing more about it, except "Here it is!" There are about 20 pages in these sample copies. There will be about 125 pages in the completed number. According to our estimates, the printer over in Baltimore has about forty-five hundred dollars of the association's money which can not be released until the litigation, which he threatens, is decided, or, if he should change his mind, until a compromise can be effected. The association is under obligation, of course, to fulfil all duties to its subscribers and to furnish them with the four numbers for which they have subscribed, and of which only one number has been produced. Therefore, arrangements have been made with another printer by which The Journal will be financed quite differently than in the past. Under the new arrangement, the printer will handle The Journal solely as a printing proposition and get paid for the printing. Everything else will be handled by my office. This means that the association will have entire control of all money received and all business matters connected 1 J. Assoc. Official Agr. Chemists, 1920, 4: 272. |