Conant Prominent In U.S. Defense Research

Research of the American Chemical Society, of which President Conant is a leading member, will henceforth be directed largely along lines of national defense, according to a recent announcement by Thomas Midgley, vice president of the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation and chairman of the society's board of directors.

President Conant's services to the government in the First World War included positions as lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps (1917), and as major in the Chemical Warfare Service (1918). In his present capacity as a member of the A. C. S. he will aid the National Defense Research Committee in furthering scientific research on devices of war.

Universities Aid Defense

The work of the National Defense Research Committee is concerned mainly with specialized problems of the Army and Navy, and is carried on for the most part through University laboratories.

Announcement was made Sunday of the appointment of Professor Roger Adams '08, head of the department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, as chairman of the group in the A. C. S. which is directing the society's activities in the field of national defense.