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THE J O U R N A L OF I N D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
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really intend to exclude American-made chemicals and to accept only chemicals of foreign origin. From the manufacturer’s point of view, however, it is important that orders be in English because the naming of chemicals in German might prevent a supply house from supplying American chemicals, even though they had the latter in stock and would prefer to quote on them under other conditions. I venture to suggest that when such documents are received written in German from American sources they be sent back with a request that they be translated into English.
The Trustees of the Ramsay Memorial Fund have requested the National Research Council to nominate a Fellow to devote his whole time to research in chemistry in some English university upon a stipend of 250 pounds sterling per year, with an additional allowance of 50 pounds for apparatus. The National Research Council has appointed a nominating committee consisting of F. G. Cottrell, Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, National Research Council, Washington, D. C.; E. B. Mathews, Chairman of the Division of Geology C. E. K. MEES and Geography, National Research Council, Washington, D. EASTMAN KODAKCo. C., and Professor of Mineralogy and Petrography, Johns HopN. Y. ROCHESTER, kins University, Baltimore, Md.; and W. E. Tisdale, Secretary January 26, 1922 of the Division of Physical Sciences, National Research Council, Washington, D. C. This Committee is willing to receive applications from any Protecting Metallic Laboratory Hardware American chemists who have taken a degree with distinction in chemistry in a university or college within the United States, and Utensils from Corrosion and who are now connected with a university or college, or have Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry? recently been graduated therefrom. The appointment will be for the academic year 1922-1923. In most laboratories there are acid fumes and in all there Under the general regulations of the Ramsay Memorial Fund, are metal burners, ring-stands, tripods, and similar tools. This Fellows are eligible for reappointment. means that unless much pains are taken there is often considApplicants should furnish : erable trouble from corrosion. The writer has found that to sand-blast and paraffin-dip all such utensils effectively pre1-Certificates or other satisfactory evidence of birth, health, character, and academic or other distinctions. serves thcm even from the fumes of strong acids in hoods and %A written application stating: enclosed places. The objection to enamel baked on such ( a ) Education and employment t o date, and particularly the nature, extent, and place or places of his academic studies and research. tools is that it chips off and exposes the metal, but the rough ( b ) Particulars of the work and place of work proposed; and surface holds the softer paraffin in place in spite of much han(c) The names and addresses of not more than three references well acquainted (one or other of them) with the health character, capacity and dling. Incidentally this method is quite inexpensive. A steel career of the applicant without however any dritten testimonials ‘from them or others. One of the refe;ences shodld be a teacher under whom the vise so treated and in daily use for over two years shows little candidate has studied, or a high official of his university, college, or other or no corrosion in a laboratory where there are acid fumes place of education. continually. These Fellowships are open in chemistry, either pure or applied, W. G. BULLARD and work may be carried on at any university, college, or other CHEMICAL LABORATORY place of higher education, or an industrial laboratory within UNITEDSHOEMACHINBRY Co. the British Empire. Their object in this instance has, in addi’ BEVERLY, MASS. December 6, 1921 tion to the stimulation of research, the special earnest wish on the part of English scientists to cultivate the wider acquaintance and good fellowship which is so much to be desired between scientific men of the world. The Ramsay Memorial Fund for research in chemistry within An Experimental Study of the Significance of the, British Empire was founded in 1920 to commemorate the Lignin” Color Reactions services to chemistry of Professor Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., (Correction) F.R.S., with an initial endowment of $14,000. Since that time several special endowments have established additions In my paper of the above title, published in THISJOURNAL,^^^ to this Fund, and special Fellowships with appropriate regula- (1921), 625, the following errors on page 626 escaped correction: tions are granted under: The Glasgow Special Fund; Royal Column 1, 4th line from bottom, “light transmission” should read “light Hellenic Government Special Fund; Federal Government of absorption.” Column 2, line 2, “bands of highest transmission (minima of absorption)”. Switzerland and of Swiss Subscribers Special Fund; Royal Italian Government Fund; Fund of the Honorary Advisory Council should read “bands of absorption.” Column 2, line 4, “11.30 for safrol” should be “13.35 for safrol.” for Scientific and Industrial Research, Canada; Royal Swedish Column 2, line 8, “minimum” should read “maximum.” Government Special Fund. Column 2, line 8, “minima” should read “maxima.“ Applications should be mailed before April 15 to W. E. ERNEST C. CROCKGR Tisdale, Secretary, 1701 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C.
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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMBRIDGE, MASS. January 9, 1922
American-Made Chemicals Editor of :he Journal of Inditstrial and Engineering Chemistry: We have received recently from two large American universities requests for quotations on chemicals in which the description of the cheniicals with comments on them is written zn German, in several cases chemicals of German origin being specified which are available from American sources in the United States. It is, of course, not likely that an American university supported by American funds and whose students hope eventually to find positions in the American chemical industries would
A Revision of the Optical Method for Analyzing Mixtures of Sucrose and Raffinose (Correction) Three typographical errors are to be noted in the paper b y C. A. Browne and C. A. Gamble [THISJOURNAL, 13 (1921), 7931. On page 795, Formulas 11and 13 and the formula for N should contain plus signs instead of multiplication signs.
