CHICAGO SUMMER LECTURES The Department of Chemistry of the University of Chicago announces two series of Lectures by Professor L. Ruzicka of the Technische Hochschule, Zurich. The first (Chemistry 348) will be given Tuesday evenings from 7 to 8 : 30 or 9 : 00, beginning June 18 and closing August 13, and the second (Chemistry 349) on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30 to 420, beginning June 19 and continuing to August 15. The evening lectures will treat of the more general aspects of the topics listed below while the afternoon lectures will deal with detailed discussion of the principles and compounds involved. The lectures are so planned that attendance at the evening lectures is possible without registration for the afternoon course; students registering for the afternoon lectures are advised to take the evening lectures also. The Tuesday evening series will begin June 18 at seven o'clock and will deal with the following topics:
I. Pyrethrums and Other Biologically Important Compounds with Small Carbon Rings. II. Recent Developments in the Chemistry of Odoriferous Substances. III. Compounds with Many Membered Rings. IV. Polyterpenes with Special Reference to the Principles Underlying Their Synthesis. V. Sterols and Bile Acids. VI. Sex Hormones (A). VII. Sex Hormones (B). VIII and IX. Other Biologically Important Derivatives of Sterols and of Polyterpenes, Including Certain Vitamins and Carotinoids.
