REPORT OF SECRETARY-TREASURER FOR By C. L. ALSBERG (Bureau of Chemistry, 1916 Nov. 14 Bank balance. $221.07 1915-16 dues from 4 organizations (Oakland, Calif., Canada, Wis- 8.00 1917 Nov. 12 Dues for the year 1916-17 from 76 Federal, State, Municipal and 380.00 $609.07 THE YEAR ENDING NOVEMBER 21, 1917. Washington, D. C.), Secretary-Treasurer. Postage... 3.00 Dec. 11 Stenographic report Tuesday afternoon meeting, November 8.50 Dec. 16 Partial payment for editing Vol. II, No. 4 of the Journal 50.00 1917 Jan. 10 Post office box rent for quarter ending March 31, 1917... 2.00 68 62 63 64 65 67 74 Feb. 21 Transferring post office box, increased rent due.. $0.36 Less refund on key .. 0.20 Refund to Williams & Wilkins Co. which was deposited 5.00 78 June 11 Editing remainder of Vol. II, No. 4 and part of Vol. III, Post office box rent for quarter ending September 30, 1917. 2.00 50.00 July 24 To complete payment reporting Wednesday meeting, 28.65 Aug. 20 Postage. 5.00 Sept. 11 Postage. 5.00 Sept. 24 Nov. 1 Post office box rent for quarter ending December 30, 1917.. 2.00 87 3.24 88 80 81 90 Nov. 12 Bank balance.. Less checks out $139.81 131.79 $609.07 The Auditing Committee1 has examined the above report and finds the same correct, all payments being substantiated by vouchers. The balance to credit is on deposit in the National Metropolitan Bank in the name of the association. Respectfully submitted, W. A. WITHERS, 1 W. D. Lynch was appointed a member of the Auditing Committee, but was called out of the city and was unable to meet with the committee to examine the report. REPORT ON THE JOURNAL. By C. L. ALSBERG (Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C.), Chairman, Board of Editors. As you know, certain differences have arisen between the executive committee, the board of editors, and the publishers of The Journal. The only serious differences are differences as to the rights and authority of the board of editors, as compared with the authority of the publishers. For reasons which seemed satisfactory to the editors, the matter of arbitration was not very greatly hastened in the beginning of the year. The publishers insisted that the question of authority, which arose originally, be arbitrated in connection with the publishing of the methods as a supplement to The Journal and the refusal of the publishers to publish that supplement in exactly the shape in which the board of editors wished it to be published. The publishers conceded the point finally, and then, having conceded, they insisted on having the matter arbitrated. There has been considerable correspondence and it looks now as if an adjustment soon can be made. I believe this difference can be adjusted and then I think The Journal will make up the time that has been lost. As I reported last year', the publisher's statement showed a deficit of something around two hundred and seventy-five dollars, which was a very good showing for the first year of The Journal. As a matter of fact, I think there is no such deficit. That point is now being settled. The second volume has been subscribed to very generally. There are about nine hundred subscribers, and the indications are that there will be no deficit for the second volume and perhaps a slight surplus, even on the basis of figuring employed by the publishers, which will, of course, on my basis, if I am right, be a considerably larger surplus. The prospects are good that The Journal will be self-supporting. I think I can assure the association that the delay in publishing the third volume, of which one number has appeared, will soon be remedied. The delay is only due to the fact that we have had this disagreement with the publishers. I have no doubt as to how it will be settled. Before this report is acted upon, I wish to mention the matter of printing the methods in book form. The methods have been waiting to be printed in book form until the adoption of this report. We will at once put forward the printing of the methods in book form. I think we can anticipate that the methods will be ready in separate book form in the course of the winter. I think that is pretty definite. We can not 1 J. Assoc. Official Agr. Chemists, 1920, 3: 578. tell the exact price at which the book will be sold until the revised manuscript is received and we see how extensively it will have to be changed. The methods have been kept set up in type and that should make the printing less expensive than it would be if all the material had to be reset. All that is necessary is to make the changes. We shall make an effort to sell them to the members as cheaply as possible. PRESENTATION OF GAVEL. By R. N. BRACKETT (Clemson Agricultural College, Clemson College, S. C.). I have noticed that the presiding officer of this association has had no symbol of authority which is the property of the association. It therefore occurred to me, when acting as your President last year, to present a gavel to the association. It seems fitting that this donation should come from the South because our association had its beginning in the State of Georgia. It also seems fitting that this donation should come from South Carolina, since the discovery of phosphate rock deposits in my State and their subsequent use for the manufacture of acid phosphate and the use of this material as a fertilizer led to a study of methods of analysis of fertilizers which culminated in the organization of this association. It further seems fitting that this donation should come from the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, since this gavel is made from a cedar which grew on the Fort Hill Plantation, the estate of John C. Calhoun, and upon this estate is located the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina. This property was bought in by Thomas G. Clemson, the son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, and when Mr. Clemson died he left the property to the State of South Carolina on condition that the State would establish and maintain on this property an agricultural and mechanical college. There is a still further tie or point of contact between the estate of John C. Calhoun, the Clemson Agricultural College, and the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists in that John C. Calhoun received his education at Yale University, which furnished the first president of this association. I refer to Samuel W. Johnson. I take pleasure in presenting to the association this little token of the esteem of the South and a reminder of the connection of the South with the association. I shall leave it in Washington to be marked as follows and turned over to the secretary of the association: |