CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTS. (1) This association shall be known as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists of the United States. The objects of the association shall be (1) to secure uniformity and accuracy in the methods, results, and modes of statement of analysis of fertilizers, soils, cattle foods, dairy products, and other materials connected with agricultural industry; (2) to afford opportunity for the discussion of matters of interest to agricultural chemists. (2) Analytical chemists connected with the United States Department of Agriculture, or with any State or national agricultural experiment station or agricultural college, or with any State or national institution or body charged with official control of the materials named in section 1, shall alone be eligible to membership; and one such representative for each of these institutions or boards, when properly accredited, shall be entitled to enter motions or vote in the association. Only such chemists as are connected with institutions exercising official fertilizer control shall vote on questions involving methods of analyzing fertilizers. All persons eligible to membership shall become members ex officio and shall be allowed the privileges of membership at any meeting of the association after presenting proper credentials. All members of the association who lose their right to such membership by retiring from positions indicated as requisite for membership shall be entitled to become honorary members and to have all privileges of membership save the right to hold office and vote. All analytical chemists and others interested in the objects of the association may attend its meetings and take part in its discussions, but shall not be entitled to enter motions or vote. (3) The officers of the association shall consist of a president, a vice-president, and a secretary, who shall also act as treasurer; and these officers, together with two other members to be elected by the association, shall constitute the executive committee. When any officer ceases to be a member by reason of withdrawing from a department or board whose members are eligible to membership, his office shall be considered vacant, and a successor may be appointed by the executive committee, to continue in office till the annual meeting next following. (4) There shall be appointed by the executive committee, at the regular annual meeting, from among the members of the association, a referee and such associate referees for each of the subjects to be considered by the association as that committee may deem appropriate. It shall be the duty of these referees to prepare and distribute samples and standard reagents to members of the association and others desiring the same, to furnish blanks for tabulating analyses, and to present at the annual meeting the results of work done, discussion thereof, and recommendations of methods to be followed. (5) The special duties of the officers of the association shall be further defined, when necessary, by the executive committee. (6) The annual meeting of this association shall be held at such place as shall be decided by the association, and at such time as shall be decided by the executive committee, and announced at least three months before the time of meeting. (7) No changes shall be made in the methods of analysis used in official inspection, except by unanimous consent, until an opportunity shall have been given all official chemists having charge of the particular inspection affected to test the proposed changes. (8) Special meetings shall be called by the executive committee when in its judgment it shall be necessary, or on the written request of five members; and at any meeting, regular or special, seven enrolled members entitled to vote shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (9) The executive committee will confer with the official boards represented with reference to the payment of expenses connected with the meetings and publication of the proceedings of the association. (10) All proposed alterations or amendments to this constitution shall be referred to a select committee of three at a regular meeting, and after report from such committee may be adopted by the approval of two-thirds of the members present entitled to vote. INDEX. Page. Acid, phosphoric, determination, supplementary report by F. B. Carpenter.. 113-114 recommendations of referees.. salicylic, methods for detection.. sulphurous, detection in dried fruits and molasses, methods. Aconite leaves, analysis, discussion.. root, analysis.. Adulteration, fertilizers, definition. 130 12-13 14-16 85 82-83, 85 99-100 9 18 81-82 110 61-62 48-50 50-51 54-59 73-76 soils. 91-92 moisture determination in corn meal and cotton-seed meal, list. Analytical results, method of stating, used by Bureau of Soils. 102 unification of terms for reporting, report of committee. 100-104 Atwater, Wilbur Olin, notice of death and work.. 132-133 Bailey, E. Monroe, report as associate referee on cocoa and cocoa products... 11 83,86 Borden Condensed Milk Company, analyses of condensed milk.. 54 18-20 Brinton, C. S., recommendation for work on flavoring extracts.. 12 57 referee, and J. E. Halligan, associate referee, report on methods 68-76 report as referee on special analytical methods of sugar analysis. 66 68 76-77 25-28 Caldwell, George Chapman, notice of death and work... 132 12 Carbon dioxid value of pure compressed yeast and compressed yeast and starch 25-28 Carpenter, F. B., supplementary report on determination of phosphoric acid. 113-114 12 Cheese analysis, two methods.. Chemical reagents, testing, committee for 1908. Cinchona bark, analysis.... report by L. F. Kebler, chairman of committee. Coal-tar colors, action of sodium bisulphite reagent, paper by C. B. Cochran.. Cochran, C. B., paper on the action of sodium bisulphite reagent on certain coal- Cocoa and cocoa products, report by E. Monroe Bailey, associate referee. Colors, coal-tar, action of sodium bisulphite reagent, paper by C. B. Cochran.. "solubilities and extraction values," paper by Edward Gude- man. report by E. F. Ladd, associate referee.. Committee on recommendations of referees.. list for 1908.. special, 1908............. Cook, F. C., report as associate referee on the separation of meat proteids. Association of Official Agricultural Chemists. Corn meal, moisture determination, cooperative work, table. nitrogen determination, cooperative work, table, etc. Cotton-seed meal, determination of sulphur.. Page. 135 100 83, 86 21-22 83, 87 21-22 11 83, 87 21-22 9 10 9-10 20 35 133-135 135 44-48 107-109 136-137 36-38 38-43 92-93 36-38 38-43 23 116-117 moisture determination, cooperative work, table. Dairy products, recommendations of referees.. report by F. W. Woll, referee.. Davidson, R. J.,.report as chairman of Committee A on recommendations of Dextrins, commercial, assay.. 66-68 76-77 55 Element system of reporting analytical results, discussion.. Fat, determination in condensed milk, tables, remarks.. Fertilizer legislation, committee for 1908.. misbranding, adulteration, tentative. 55-56 62-66 116 135 97-100 99 99-100 122 12 9-12 135 recommendations of referees.. detection in milk, methods.. Foods and feeding stuffs, report by J. K. Haywood, referee. determination of water, report by F. C. Weber, associate referee... Formaldehyde, analysis comments and discussion.. Fraps, G. S., article on the phosphoric acid of the soil. 62-66 25 116 127 13-14 95-96 Grindley, H. S., analyst commercial meat extracts work. comments on separation of meat proteids.. Gudeman, Edward, subreport on colors...... Page. 50 48 10 Halligan, J. E., associate referee, and C. A. BROWNE, referee, report on methods of analysis for sugar and molasses.. 68-76 Harris, H. L., article on legislation on preservatives in food. 16-20 Haskins, H. D., preliminary studies of the analysis of basic slag for available phosphoric acid.. 114-115 Haywood, J. K., report as chairman committee on revision of methods. Holland, Edward B., analyst condensed milk, remarks.. Honey, poisonous, sources.. Hortvet, Julius, paper on “An examination of colors used in foods or natural to foods," note. 19 9 Hydrosulphite, effect on polarization of dextrose levulose, and, sucrose....... 76-77 Ice cream, thickeners, detection, article by G. E. Patrick. 24-25 report by R. J. Davidson, referee. 131 123-129 Iron, determination in phosphate rock, methods.. 110 Jackson, Holmes C., comments on separation of meat proteids.. 49-50 Jones, C. H., report on saccharine products.............. 10 Kebler, L. F., report as chairman of committee on testing of chemical reagents. Ladd, E. F., report as associate referee on colors............. Levulose, polarization, effect of hydrosulphite and rongalite. McCandless, J. M., subreport as referee on phosphoric acid.. Methods, revision, committee for 1908. 9-10 128-129 97-100 76-77 124-126 48-49 110-113 12 36-38 38-43 50-51 44-48 117 81-87 135 Methyl protozans, determination, method. Milk, condensed, analyses results.. Misbranding fertilizers, definition.. Mitchell, H. H., analyst, commercial meat extracts, work. 63-65 54-59 99 50 Moisture, determination in corn meal and cotton-seed meal, cooperative work, table.... 36-38 Molasses, cooperative work. 73-77 moisture, determination, article by W. D. Horne.. 22-23 report on methods of analysis, by C. A. Browne and J. E. Halligan.. 68-76 sulphurous acid determination... 77-80 Mustard-seed meal, determination of sulphur. 93 Naquin, W. P.. and Fritz Zerban, article on the determination of sulphurous acid in molasses.. 77-80 Nitrogen, determination, report by Charles L. Penny, referee. 35-43 recommendations of referees.. 129 Nominations, report of committee. 96-97 Nutmegs, grinding, sale a violation of food and drugs act. 11 |