Chemiczne stowarzyszenia inżynierów i techników w Polsce do 1939 r.

The author of the paper is engaged in work for the Federation of Scientific-Technical Associations - NOT on A dictionary o f Polish scientific-technical associations until 1939, which is to contain 170 entries. The current paper presents five chemical associations: the Polish Association of Dyestuff-Chemists in Łodź, the Chemical Section of the Warsaw Chapter of Society for Promoting Russian Industry and Trade, the Association o f Technical Managers of Dye- Works, the Union of Polish Chemists, and the Union of Jewish Chemists in Poland. Each entry carries information on the following matters: the period o f activity of a given association, its seat, its organizational structure, the number of its members, its presidents and secretaries, its range of activity, its serial publications, as well as the sources and writings on a given association. The entries also present the circumstance in which particular associations were formed, the aims and tasks of the associations, the main directions of their activities - lectures, publications, expert reports, and contacts with other Polish and foreign associations. The information of the associations in question have been derived mainly from technical journals, such as „Przegląd Techniczny”, „Chemik Polski”, „Czasopisma Chemiczne”, which published the statutes of the associations and reports of their activities, notices of lectures and information on their topics.