VOL.7, No. 12
CHEMICAL DIGEST
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Dr. S. M. Babcock, University of Wisconsin chemist, whose test for butter-fat content of milk put the dairy industry on a firm scientific basis. Dr. L. 0. Howard, veteran government entomologist, who long led America's war on the insect and who aroused the nation t o the necessity of fighting insect invaders which menace health, clops, and livestock. Prof. George H. Shull, botanist, who showed how t o breed corn of higher yield that has meant millions of dollars t o American farmers. Dr. John Mohler, chief of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Industm. whose virorous fiaht against foot-and-mouth disease of cattle has subdued . .. that scourge and s3vcrl the livestock industry untold lorn. Dr. Marion Dorset,. 1)el~srtm:nt of Amiculture biocbemi% who develovd tncthods of immunizing pigs against cholera and thus saved heavy losses in the industry of hog raising. Dr. Theobald Smith, dean of American bacteriologists, whose work on Texas fever removed the menace of that disease of cattle, but, more important, proved that insects can carry disease. Dr. Casimir Funk, who invented the term vitamin and called the attention of students of nutrition to early work on beri-beri. This ushered in intensive research upon vitamins with resulting changes in food habits.
"To this list there should also be added many pioneers in medicine whose researches have conquered many diseases. And there cannot be included in this list, although perhaps they should be, the names of thousands of individuals who have aided in the birth of new ideas or perfected them so that they could do industry's work. Great and important names in science, soch as Einstein, Michelson, Millikan, Morgan, Rutherford, and a host of others are not in this list because their work, for the most part, has not yet been translated into industrial effects. That they are affecting the world's thought stream is undoubted; that even the most abstruse scientific discoveries will have industrial results in the future cannot be doubted."
Chemist Finds Arsenic and Germanium in Meteorites. Arsenic, favorite of poisoners, and germanium, a rare element that has been used in the treatment of anemia, are both present in some meteorites that fall t o the earth from the skies. Dr. Jacob Papish and Zaida M. Hanford, Comell University chemists, have just completed a series of analvses of six meteorites. Traces of germanium were found in all of them, whilr .mall amounts oi l m h jerrn~niurnand arcmi
