50 Years of Chemical Information
in the American Chemical Society
1943–1993

Appendix 4: Symposia at the ACS National Meetings, Chemical Literature Group, 1943–1948

(number in parentheses gives the number of papers presented in a given symposium; name in parentheses is the name of the presiding symposium chairman, or the author of a single paper if so indicated)

106th, Fall 1943 — Pittsburgh, PA

Technical Library Techniques (18) (Norman C. Hill)

107th, Spring 1944 — Cleveland, OH

Technical Library Techniques. II. (19) (Norman C. Hill)

and 2 papers: Chemical Editing (Sidney D. Kirkpatrick) and Patent Work as a Field for Chemists (C. B. Hollabaugh)

108th, Fall 1944 — New York, NY

Paper: Scholastic Training for a Career in Chemical Literature Research (Mary Alexander, Nancy Corbin, and Gustav Egloff)

— 1945 (Meeting-in-Print)

Paper: The Nomenclature of Coordination Compounds (W. Conard Fernelius et al.)

109th, Spring 1946 — Atlantic City, NJ

Technical Library Techniques. III. (10) (Norman C. Hill)

and 2 papers: Patentability of Organic Compounds (I. J. Fellner) and A New System for the Classification of Compounds (Emmett L. Buhle et al.

110th, Fall 1946 — Chicago, IL

Chemical Patents (6) (I. J. Fellner)

Technical Library Techniques. IV. (10) (James W. Perry)

and 2 papers: Reports Constitute Capital Investments (Florence E. Wall) and The Special Toxicity Data Files for the CWS Technical Command (Emma L. Wardell)

111th, Spring 1947 — Atlantic City, NJ

Preparation of Literature and Patent Surveys (5) (Gustaf Egloff) (joint with Petroleum Chemistry)

Petroleum Information Service (3) (Gustav Egloff) (joint with Petroleum Chemistry)

Chemical Literature (10) (James W. Perry)

112th, Fall 1947 — New York, NY

Methods of Handling Research Records (7) (Gerald J. Cox)

Utilization of Punched Cards in the Chemical Literature Field (8) (James W. Perry)

Modern Chemical Nomenclature (4) (James W. Perry)

General (4) (Norman C. Hill)

113th, Spring 1948 — Chicago, IL

Trends in Indexing, Classifying, and Coding Chemical Information (8) (James W. Perry)

General Chemical Literature Program (4) (Byron A. Soule)

Technical Journalism (12) (Thomas H. Chilton) (commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry) (joint with Industrial and Engineering Chemistry)

114th, Fall 1948 — Washington, DC, and Portland, OR

General (4) (E. L. Haenish)

Chemical Literature Group (7) (James W. Perry)

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