Annual report of the director of the school

✍ Scribed by Simeon van T. Jester

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1917
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 126 KB
• Volume: 183
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(17)91172-x

✦ Synopsis

Additions to membership since last report, 13. Mr. William C. Wetherill, chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts, reported the condition of the work of the committee.

Charles Baskerville, Esq., Ph.D., Director of Chemical Laboratories, College of the City of New York, presented a communication on the " Hydrogenation of Oils." The various saturated, unsaturated, and hydroxy acids, which occur in animal and vegetable fats and oils, were described by means of charts. The mixed glycerides of such fats and oils were discussed, together with the successive changes produced in their unsaturated radicals by hydrogenation. Attention was paid to the r61e of catalysis in hydrogenation. and to the factors which may favor or retard the reaction in its commercia[ application. Stress was laid on the economic importance of hydrogenated oils. and the relationship of such oils to the natural fats.

The subject was illustrated by experiments and lantern slides. After a brief discussion the thanks of the meeting were extended to the speaker.