HERTY, CHARLES H. (CHARLES HOLMES), 1867-1938.
Charles H. Herty papers
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Series 3
American Chemical Society,
1893-1938
Boxes 15-37
Scope and Content Note
Herty became a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1893, and he was actively involved with the organization for the following thirty-five years. He served as president in 1915 and 1916. During this time, he stressed the importance of cooperation between universities and industries, the need for more fundamental chemical research, and the need for improved tariff protection for the American chemical industry. He was the first full-time editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, and he did much to expand its influence. His editorials repeated the themes of his presidency. He also energetically defended the establishment of the Chemical Warfare Service, and emphasized the importance of chemistry in every-day life. He was the first director of the ACS news service.
Herty chaired the following committees: Advisory Committee to the Bureau of Mines (1916-1920), Committee on an Institute for Chemo-Medical Research (1919-1931, from 1919-1920 this was the Committee on an Institute for Drug Research), Committee on Coordination of Chemical Work Within the War Department (1919), Committee to Cooperate with Chemical Warfare Service (1920-1922), and the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry (1908-1909).
He served on other committees, including: Committee on Inorganic Nomenclature (1913-1915), Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling and Pronunciation (1917-1921), Committee on Exchanges (1917-1921), Advisory Committee to the President (1917-1921) [In 1921, the name was changed to Committee on National Policy], Committee on Prize Essays (1923-1931), and Committee on Women's Award in Chemistry (1936-1938)
Herty was active in local sections. He worked for the establishment of the Georgia Section (1900-1903); and he was president (1906) and councillor (1907-1908) of the North Carolina section. He became a member of the New York Section in 1917, and served as chairman (1918), member of the executive committee (1920-1921), chairman of the publicity committee (1921), and councillor (1924-1929).
ACS administrative correspondence, arrangements for meetings and local section requests for appearances by Herty are filed in General Correspondence section along with correspondence about the ACS Institute of Chemistry. The Committees section includes correspondence about individual divisions and committees and correspondence relating to the Georgia, New York, and North Carolina sections. The series also includes files dealing with ACS publications and with the development of the ACS News Service, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry.
Correspondence is arranged as follows: General Correspondence includes correspondence with the public and with contributors of articles. Correspondence with the journal prior and subsequent to Herty's term as editor is also included. Office Correspondence concerns the physical operation of the journal; correspondence with staff and ACS officers about the journal; correspondence with the ACS advertising committee. Journal Requests Correspondence includes requests for reprints, back issues, photographic cuts and subscriptions. The 1916 journal files of the previous editor, Dr. M. C. Whitaker, are included among these papers.
Related material can be found in the following series: Series 6: Industrial Progress and National Defense; Series 7: Medicine and Health; Series 10: Educational Work; Series 13: Notebooks, Speeches, Writings, Clippings, and Office Filing System; and Series 15: Photographs.
General Correspondence, 1906-1915 | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
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15 | 1 | 1906-1908 |
15 | 2 | 1909 |
15 | 3 | 1910 |
15 | 4 | 1911-1914 |
15 | 5 | January-February 1915 |
15 | 6 | March-April 1915 |
15 | 7 | May-June 1915 |
15 | 8 | July-September 1915 |
15 | 9 | October 1915 |
16 | 1 | November-December 1915 and undated |
16 | 2 | January-March 1916 |
16 | 3 | April-June 1916 |
16 | 4 | July-August 1916 |
16 | 5 | September-October 1916 |
16 | 6 | November 1916 |
16 | 7 | December 1916 and undated |
16 | 8 | January-April 1917 |
17 | 1 | May-August 1917 |
17 | 2 | September-October 1917 |
17 | 3 | November-December 1917 and undated |
17 | 4 | January-April 1918 |
17 | 5 | May-June 1918 |
17 | 6 | July-December 1918 |
17 | 7 | January-April 1919 |
17 | 8 | May-July 1919 |
17 | 9 | August-December 1919 and undated |
18 | 1 | January-July 1920 |
18 | 2 | August-December 1920 and undated |
18 | 3 | 1921 |
18 | 4 | 1922-1925 |
18 | 5 | 1926-1927 |
18 | 6 | 1928-1929 |
18 | 7 | 1930-1933 |
18 | 8 | 1934-1938 |
Institute of Chemistry | ||
19 | 1 | Correspondence: 1925-1926 |
19 | 2 | Correspondence: January-May 1927 |
19 | 3 | Correspondence: June-December 1927 |
19 | 4 | Correspondence: 1928 |
19 | 5 | Miscellaneous Papers: 1928 |
19 | 6 | Lectures at West Point and Annapolis. Correspondence and other papers: 1921-1921, 1923-1924 |
Committees | ||
19 | 7 | American Section of the Commission on Inorganic Nomenclature of the International Association of Chemical Societies. Correspondence: 1912 |
19 | 8 | Advisory Committee to the Bureau of Mines. Correspondence: 1916-1920 |
19 | 9 | Advisory Committee to the President. Correspondence: 1917-1921 |
19 | 10 | Committee Appointed to Study the Question of Increasing the Interest of Women Chemists in the Activities of the American Chemical Society. Correspondence: 1926-1927, undated |
19 | 11 | Committee for the Revision of Chemical Statistics. Correspondence: 1915-1916 |
19 | 12 | Committee on Classification of the Chemical Elements. Correspondence: 1909 |
19 | 13 | Committee on Code of Professional Ethics. Correspondence: 1915-1917, 1920 |
19 | 14 | Committee on Conservation of Natural Resources. Correspondence: 1908-1910 |
19 | 15 | Committee on Cooperation Between Universities and Industries. Correspondence:1915-1917, 1919 |
19 | 16 | Committee on Endowments. Correspondence: 1916, 1925 |
19 | 17 | Committee on Exchanges. Correspondence: 1916-1917 |
20 | 1 | Committee on Exchanges. Correspondence: 1918-1921 |
20 | 2 | Committee on Inorganic Chemical Nomenclature. Correspondence: 1913, 1915, 1929, 1931, undated |
20 | 3 | Committee on Inventions by Government Employees. Correspondence: 1916 |
20 | 4 | Committee on Joseph Priestly Memorial. Correspondence: 1916 |
20 | 5 | Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling and Pronunciation. Correspondence: 1918-1921, 1928 |
20 | 6 | Committee on Occupational Diseases. Correspondence: 1916 |
20 | 7 | Committee on Paper. Correspondence: 1919, 1916, 1921 |
20 | 8 | Committee on Reorganization of Business Methods of the Society. Correspondence: 1910 and Report: 1914 |
20 | 9 | Committee on Widely Separated Summer Meetings. Correspondence: 1908 |
20 | 10 | Committee on Women's Award in Chemistry. Correspondence: 1936-1938 |
20 | 11 | Committee to Investigate Charges Against Louis B. Allyn. Correspondence: 1915-1916 |
20 | 12 | Committee to Prepare Resolutions On the Death of Professor Alfred Werner. Correspondence: 1919-1920 |
20 | 13 | Coordinating Committee of the General Meeting. Correspondence: 1921 |
20 | 14 | Executive Committee for the Entertainment of Madame Curie. Correspondence: 1921 |
20 | 15 | Women's Service Committee. Correspondence: 1927-1933 |
20 | 16 | Georgia Section. Correspondence: 1900, 1903-1904, 1907, 1915-1917, 1927, 1936 |
Sections | ||
20 | 17 | New York Section. Correspondence: 1916-1918 |
21 | 1 | New York Section. Correspondence: 1919-1921 |
21 | 2 | New York Section. Correspondence: 1923-1929, 1931-1932, undated |
21 | 3 | North Carolina Section. Correspondence: 1906-1907 |
21 | 4 | North Carolina Section. Correspondence: 1908-1913, 1916, 1932-1933 |
21 | 5 | North Carolina Section. Announcements and Reports: 1904-1931, 1913-1915 |
Other Papers: Divisions | ||
21 | 6 | Division of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Correspondence: 1933-1934 |
21 | 7 | Division of Cellulose Chemistry. Correspondence: 1929-1930, 1932-19,;;6 |
21 | 8 | Division of Cellulose Chemistry. Abstracts of Papers: 1930, 1936 |
21 | 9 | Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Correspondence: 1920, 1925-1926, 1933-1934 |
21 | 10 | Division of Industrial Chemists and Chemical Engineers. General Correspondence and Papers: 1908-1910, 1912, 1915-1917-1919 |
21 | 11 | Division of Industrial Chemists and Engineers. SubCommittee on Turpentine. Correspondence: 1910-1911, 1915 |
21 | 12 | Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Correspondence: 1907-1908 |
21 | 13 | Division of Medicinal Chemistry. Correspondence: 1928, 1930 |
21 | 14 | Division of Medicinal Chemistry. Miscellaneous Papers: 1928-1930 |
21 | 15 | Division of Medicinal Products. Correspondence: 1924-1925 |
21 | 16 | Division of Organic Chemistry. Correspondence: 1908-1909, 1916-1918, 1920-1925, 1927-1928 |
21 | 17 | Division of Organic Chemistry. . Correspondence: 1926-1929 |
21 | 18 | Division of Organic Chemistry. Abstracts of Papers: 1930 |
21 | 19 | Division of Physical Chemistry. Correspondence: 1908 |
21 | 20 | Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. Correspondence: 1908-1912, 1924 |
22 | 1 | Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. Correspondence: 1916, 1922, 1924-1926, 1930 |
22 | 2 | Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. Program: 1930 |
22 | 3 | Dye Section and Division. Correspondence: 1917-1919, 1921-1928, 1930 |
American Chemical Society. Miscellaneous Papers | ||
22 | 4 | 1893, 1907-1909 |
22 | 5 | 1910-1915 |
22 | 6 | 1916-1917 |
22 | 7 | 1918-1920 |
22 | 8 | 1921 |
22 | 10 | 1925-1927 |
23 | 1 | 1928-1934 |
23 | 2 | undated |
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. General Correspondence, 1908-1938 | ||
23 | 3 | 1908-1910, 1912-1913, 1915 |
23 | 4 | January-June, 1916 |
23 | 5 | July-December, 1916 |
23 | 6 | January-February, 1917 |
23 | 7 | March, 1917 |
24 | 1 | April, 1917 |
24 | 2 | May 1-15, 1917 |
24 | 3 | May 16-31, 1917 |
24 | 4 | June 1-8, 1917 |
24 | 5 | June 9-30, 1917 |
24 | 6 | July, 1917 |
24 | 7 | August, 1917 |
24 | 8 | September, 1917 |
24 | 9 | October, 1917 |
25 | 1 | November, 1917 |
25 | 2 | December, 1917 |
25 | 3 | January, 1918 |
25 | 4 | February 1-14, 1918 |
25 | 5 | February 15-28, 1918 |
25 | 6 | March, 1918 |
26 | 7 | April, 1918 |
26 | 8 | May, 1918 |
26 | 9 | June, 1918 |
26 | 1 | July 1-15, 1918 |
26 | 2 | July 16-31, 1918 |
26 | 3 | August, 1918 |
26 | 4 | September, 1918 |
26 | 5 | October 1-21, 1918 |
26 | 6 | October 22-31, 1918 |
26 | 7 | November, 1918 |
26 | 8 | December, 1918 and undated |
26 | 9 | January, 1919 |
26 | 10 | February, 1919 |
27 | 1 | March, 1919 |
27 | 2 | April, 1919 |
27 | 3 | May, 1919 |
27 | 4 | June, 1919 |
27 | 5 | July, 1919 |
27 | 6 | August, 1919 |
27 | 7 | September, 1919 |
27 | 8 | October, 1919 |
27 | 9 | November, 1919 |
27 | 10 | December, 1919 |
28 | 1 | January, 1920 |
28 | 2 | February, 1920 |
28 | 3 | March, 1920 |
28 | 4 | April, 1920 |
28 | 5 | May-June, 1920 |
28 | 6 | July-August, 1920 |
28 | 7 | September-October, 1920 |
28 | 8 | November, 1920 |
28 | 9 | December, undated, 1920 |
28 | 10 | January 3-12, 1921 |
29 | 1 | January 13-18, 1921 |
29 | 2 | January 19-31, 1SP-1 |
29 | 3 | February 1-7, 1921 |
29 | 4 | February 8-16, 1921 |
29 | 5 | February 17-28, 1921 |
29 | 6 | March 1-17, 1921 |
29 | 7 | April, 1921 |
29 | 8 | May 1-16, 1921 |
29 | 9 | May 17-31, 1921 |
29 | 10 | June 1-13, 1921 |
29 | 11 | June 14-17, 1921 |
30 | 1 | June 18-30, 1921 |
30 | 2 | July 1-15, 1921 |
30 | 3 | July 16-30, 1921 |
30 | 4 | August 1-19, 1921 |
30 | 5 | August 20-31, 1921 |
30 | 6 | September 1-16, 1921 |
30 | 7 | September 17-30, 1921 |
30 | 8 | October 1-12, 1921 |
30 | 9 | October 13-31, 1921 |
30 | 10 | November-December, 1921 |
30 | 11 | 1922, 1925-1938 |
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Office Correspondence, 1916-1921 | ||
30 | 12 | January-March, 1916 |
31 | 1 | April-June, 1916 |
31 | 2 | July-September, 1916 |
31 | 3 | October, 1916 |
31 | 4 | November, 1916 |
31 | 5 | December, undated, 1916 |
31 | 6 | January-February, 1917 |
31 | 7 | March-April, 1917 |
31 | 8 | May-June, 1917 |
31 | 9 | July, 1917 |
31 | 10 | August, 1917 |
31 | 11 | September-October, 1917 |
31 | 12 | November, 1917 |
31 | 13 | December, undated, 1917 |
32 | 1 | January-March, 1918 |
32 | 2 | April-August, 1918 |
32 | 3 | September-December, 1918 |
32 | 4 | January-March, 1919 |
32 | 5 | April-August, 1919 |
32 | 6 | September, 1919 |
32 | 7 | October-November, 1919 |
32 | 8 | December, undated, 1919 |
33 | 1 | January-February, 1920 |
33 | 2 | March-April, 1920 |
33 | 3 | May-June, 1920 |
33 | 4 | July-August, 1920 |
33 | 5 | September, 1920 |
33 | 6 | October-November, 1920 |
33 | 7 | December, undated, 1920 |
33 | 8 | January-February, 1921 |
33 | 9 | March, 1921 |
33 | 10 | April-May, 1921 |
33 | 11 | June-July, 1921 |
33 | 12 | August, 1921 |
33 | 13 | September, 1921 |
33 | 14 | October-December, undated, 1921 |
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Financial Correspondence, 1916-1921 | ||
34 | 1 | 1916 |
34 | 2 | January-July, 1917 |
34 | 3 | August-December, undated, 1917 |
34 | 4 | January-June, 1918 |
34 | 5 | July-December, undated, 1918 |
34 | 6 | January-May, 1919 |
34 | 7 | June-September, 1919 |
34 | 8 | October-December, undated, 1919 |
34 | 9 | 1920 |
34 | 10 | 1921 |
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Journal Requests Correspondence, 1916-1918 | ||
34 | 11 | February-May, 1916 |
34 | 12 | June-December, 1916 |
34 | 13 | January-April, 1917 |
34 | 14 | May-June, 1917 |
35 | 1 | July-August, 1917 |
35 | 2 | September, 1917 |
35 | 3 | October, 1917 |
35 | 4 | November-December, 1917 |
35 | 5 | January-March, 1918 |
35 | 6 | April-June, 1918 |
35 | 7 | July-December, 1918 |
35 | 8 | January-June, 1919 |
35 | 9 | July-December, 1919 |
35 | 10 | 1920 |
35 | 11 | January-February, 1921 |
35 | 12 | March-May, 1921 |
36 | 1 | June-July, 1921 |
36 | 2 | August-September, 1921 |
36 | 3 | October, 1921 |
36 | 4 | November undated, 1921 |
Press and Publicity Committee | ||
36 | 5 | Correspondence: 1916 |
36 | 6 | Correspondence: January-June, 1917 |
36 | 7 | Correspondence: July-December, 1917 and undated |
36 | 8 | Correspondence: 1918 |
ACS News Service | ||
36 | 9 | Correspondence: January, 1919 |
36 | 10 | Correspondence: February-March, 1919 |
36 | 11 | Correspondence: April-July, 1919 |
37 | 1 | Correspondence: August-December 1919 and undated |
37 | 2 | Correspondence: 1920 |
37 | 3 | Correspondence: 1921 |
37 | 4 | Correspondence: 1923-1930, 1933-1934, 1937 |
37 | 5 | Press Releases: 1919-1923, undated |
ACS Publications | ||
37 | 6 | Chemical Round Table: 1920-1922 |
37 | 7 | Chemical Abstracts. Correspondence: 1908-1910, 1913, 1915-1917 |
37 | 8 | Chemical Abstracts. Correspondence: 1918-1921, 1925-1928 |
37 | 9 | Journal of the American Chemical Society. Correspondence: 1908-1915, 1918, 1927-1928, 1937 |
37 | 10 | Popular Chemistry Magazine. Correspondence: 1915-1917, 1920 Includes correspondence about creating an ACS magazine of interest to the lay public. |