INDUSTRIAL A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
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Vol. 15, No. 8
Parker Cairns McIlhiney
degrees of Ph.E., 1892; A.M., 1893; Ph.D., 1894. From 1893 to 1900 he was assisThirty years ago I was working in my tant in assaying, then in metallurgy, a t little laboratory in an old varnish factory, Columbia, and the ten years he spent in when one morning there appeared a t the these laboratories, where he was Waller’s door a young man of remarkable beauty favorite pupil, made him one of the most and expressive and mobile countenance, resourceful and skilful analysts I have ever who said he had been sent by Prof. Elwyn known. From this time until his death, Waller to see if I would give him some which occurred on June 21, he operated a authenticated samples of varnish for study. private laboratory, where, it was well Though I was not then an old man I was known, he specialized in original work which double his age; but in spite of that, or permost analysts had refused. But also for haps because of it, there speedily grew up twenty-five years he had been connected between us a quiet friendship which lasted with Louis C. Tiffany (Tiffany Studios) in until his death. I was able to give him, artistic glass, jewelry, and enamels, for altogether, about forty samples of laborawhich Dr. McIlhiney received silver and tory-made varnishes and japans; and he bronze medals a t the Paris Exposition in verified his method for volatile portion, be1900. He was also an expert in chlorine fore he published it, on every one of them. manufacture and uses, and in analysis of P. C MCILHINEY This was a fair example of the care and varnishes and shellac. He long promised us accuracy of his chemical work-a worthy reflection of the teach- a book on precious enamels, but his health had been failing for ing of that great analyst, Waller. several years and he never wrote it. His widow and one ‘son Parker Cairns McIlhiney was born in Jersey City, N. J., (a Columbia graduate) survive him. October 9, 1870. His parents were Scotch-Irish, from Belfast, Once in a great while there is a man who is admired and liked Presbyterians of the most rigid sort. He fitted for college a t by everybody. That was McIlhiney. the Jersey City High School, and received from Columbia the A. H. SABIN -
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Persona 1s C. F. Chandler has been elected to honorary membership in the Society of Chemical Industry. It is particularly pleasing
that in the first election of honorary members to this society an American should be among- those chosen. ’ The degree of doctor of science has been conferred by Williams College on Edward Bartow, professor of sanitary chemistry a t the Iowa State University. John A. Gunton is leaving Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., to accept a position as professor of chemistry a t the University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. G. N. Lewis, of the University of California, has been elected an honorary member of the London Chemical Society. Edgar F. Seifert has resigned his position with the American Aniline Products Co., Lock Haven, Pa., to accept a position with the By-products Steel Corp., Weirton, W. Va. Kenneth E. Bell has resigned his position with the Lewis Recovery Corporation to accept one as chemical engineer for the A. C. Lawrence Leathe; Co., Peabody, Mass. P. B. Sadtler, who for some time has been stationed a t headquarters of the Swenson Evaporator Co., has opened offices a t 136 Liberty St., New York, and 1309 Widener Building, Philadelphia, a s t h e eastern offices of the company. Elmer D. Merrill, director of the Bureau of Science, Manila, will represent this bureau a t the second Pan-Pacific Science Congress to be held in Sydney and Melbourne in August. Ernest Anderson, for the past three years professor of general chemistry in the University of Nebraska, has resigned to become head of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Arizona. M. J. Harnist, formerly chief chemist for the *Meyer Bros. Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo., has accepted a position as products control chief of the Brooklyn, N. Y., plant of E. R. Squibb & Sons. Carl W. Nesbitt recently resigned his position with the Atmospheric Nitrogen Corp., Syracuse, N. Y . , to join the research staff of the Victor Chemical Works, Chicago Heights, 111. Casimir Funk has accepted a call t o organize a department of nutrition in the State Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Funk sailed on July 13 from Quebec and is planning to be away two years.
Edward B. Durham has accepted the position of engineer with the U. S.Smelting, Refining and Mining Co., Kennet, Shasta Co., Calif. He was formerly maintenance engineer for the Standard Chemical Co., Canonsburg, Pa., and since March 1, 1923, has been with the Koppers CG, Pittsburgh, Pa. C. P. Derluth, who for the past two years has been engaged in the development of the new district offices of the Celite Products Company in the East, has returned to St. Louis to assume charge of the St. Louis district of that company. P. J. Freeman, for the past seven years engineer of tests a t the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, has opened offices for private practice as a consulting engineer a t 311 Ross St., Pittsburgh, Pa. F. 0. Sprague has resigned his position as consulting chemist of the Transylvania Tanning Co., Brevard, N. C., and will operate a chemical laboratory for the tanneries of the Endicott Johnson Corp., Endicott, N. Y. Victor Yngve, who has been engaged in cryogenic research a t Harvard University during the past year, has accepted a position as director of research for the Manhattan Electrical Supply Co., New York City. E. C. Gangloff, formerly research chemist with the National Aniline & Chemical Co., is now chief chemist with Dextro Products, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y. Zen Zuh Li, who has been working for the American Writing Paper Co., Holyoke, Mass., will join the staff of the Northern Paper Mills, Green Bay, Wis., early in September. C. A. Carlton has resigned his position as chief chemist of the Columbia Tire & Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, and has entered the employ of the Dovan Chemical Corp., 30 Church St., New York, N. Y., as research chemist. John H. Schmidt has resigned his instructorship in organic chemistry a t the University of Wisconsin to accept a position as research chemist with the Redmanol Chemical Products Co., Chicago, Ill. Charles W. Pugsley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, has submitted his resignation, effective October 1, to accept the presidency of the South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, a t Brookings. Mr. Pugsley will have filled the office of assistant secretary two years at the time his resignation takes effect. Jacob G. Lipman, of Rutgers College, has been erected a member of the Swedish Royal Society of Agriculture.
