SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES: Interallied Chemical Conference in Paris; American Chemical Society, Dye Section; National Research Fellowships in Chemistry; Fifth National Exposition of Chemical Industries, Chicago, Illinois, Week of September 22 to 27, 1919; A Building for the American Chemical Society; The Canadian Institute of Chemistry; Meetings of the Executive Committee of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Research Council; Scientific Section, American Pharmaceutical Association; Calendar of Meetings

1919 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 691-697
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
American Chemical Society ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Chemical Technology ◽  
Scientific Societies ◽  
Scientific Section ◽  
Canadian Institute ◽  
American Pharmaceutical Association

scholarly journals American Astronomers in Belgium, 1919: Snapshots from the Founding of the IAU

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (S349) ◽  
pp. 406-418
Author(s):  
James M. Lattis ◽  
Anthony J. Lattis
Keyword(s):  
Executive Committee ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Council Meeting ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

AbstractThe USA delegation to the July 1919 International Research Council meeting in Brussels included Joel Stebbins, then professor of astronomy and observatory director at the University of Illinois, as secretary of the executive committee appointed by the National Research Council. Stebbins, an avid photographer, documented the travels of their party as the American astronomers attended the meeting and later toured devastated towns, scarred countryside, and battlefields only recently abandoned. Published reports of the meeting afterward attest to the impression left on the American visitors, and the photographs by Stebbins give us a glimpse through their own eyes. Selected photographs, recently discovered in the University of Wisconsin Archives and never before publicly seen, will be presented along with some commentary on their significance for the International Astronomical Union, which took shape at that 1919 meeting.

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