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PERSONAL NOTES Dr. Clifford Richardson, of New York, was elected President of the Association of Harvard Chemists a t the fourth annual dinner, held recently a t Young’s Hotel, Boston. Other officers are: Vice-Presidents, Professor W. D. Bancroft, of Cornell University, and Dr. F . W. Clark, of Washington; Secretary and Treasurer, Professor S. B. Forbes. Prof. S. C. Lind has resigned the chair of general and physical chemistry in the University of Michigan. He has already been absent from the university for two years on leave as a inember of the Denver U. S. Bureau of Mines Experiment Station, where he will continue his work on radium. The Pittsburgh Section of the A. C. S. has recently issued a 32-page pamphlet containing its history, its b y - l a w and membership directory. The directory includes the full name, home address, position and specialty of each individual. Prof. Charles Lee Crandall, of the college of civil engineering, Cornell University. has retired from the faculty after a service of forty-two years, and has been elected a professor emeritus. The Bureau of Standards has completed the plans for its new chemical laboratory building, the cost not to exceed Szoo,ooo, for which appropriation was made by congress last winter. The laboratory will be situated on Pierce Mill Road near Connecticut Avenue, in the northwest suburbs of Washington, D. C., and will form the seventh of the group of special laboratory buildings erected for the bureau. Prevost Hubbard has recently accepted the position of Chief of the Division of Road Material Tests and Research i n t h e U. S. Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, and has resigned as Chemical Engineer in charge of the division of Roads and Pavements of the Institute of Industrial Research. The preliminary list of awards by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition gives the Department of the Interior collective exhibit one grand prize. The exhibit of the Geological Survey receives one grand prize, four medals of honor, five gold medals, six silver medals, and two bronze medals. The Bureau of Mines receives one grand prize, six medals of honor, three gild medals, and three silver medals. The Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines announce the election of Dr. W.B. Phillips as President of that institution.
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Dr. -4rthur A. Noyes, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is to become a member of the faculty of the Throop College of Technology, Pasadena, Cal., for a portion of the coming academic year, and for one-half of the time in succeeding years, beginning Rith 1916-1917. This arrangement has been made possible by a gift of $10,000 for the equipment of a physical chemistry laboratory, and the endowment of this laboratory in a sum yielding $10,000 annually for its support. This laboratory is to be located in a new chemistry building, which is expected to be built during the coming academic year. Arrangements for an exchange of professors between the University of Washington and the Cniversity of the Philippines have progressed to the stage where it is probable that Dr. Horace G. Byers, professor of chemistry in the Vniversity of Washington, will spend the next year in Manila. I n the event of his going, Prof. Horace G. Deming, a graduate of the Cniversity of Washington, head of the department of chemistry in the University of the Philippines, will go to the University of Washington for the year. Gail Mersereau died a t his home in Cayuga, N. Y . ,on LVednesday, July 14th, of cerebral meningitis, superinduced by poisoning by noxious gases. Mr. Nersereau was a graduate of Columbia Gniversity, in the class of 1903, member of the American Chemical Society, the N e w York Section of the Society of Chemical Industry, the Chemists’ Club and the Verein Deutscher Chemiker. For two years he was chemist to the Susquehanna Dye and Silk Works, at Williamsport, Pa. He was successively silk chemist, consulting chemist to the Panama Canal Commission, chemist for the Standard Oil Co. of Kew York, and consulting chemist and chemical engineer. At the time of his death blr. Mersereau was engaged in the manufacture of explosives. Frederick W. Spanutius died in Hastings-on-Hudson, on June 20th, a t the age of forty-seven years. He was formerly an instructor in chemistry in the Pennsylvania State College, the Iowa State University and Lehigh University. Later he engaged in industrial work and owned works a t Hastings called the Pan Chemical Company. The Pfaudler Company announce that they have contracted for space No. 93 for an exhibit of their equipment at the Xatioiial Exposition of Chemical Industries to be held a t the Grand Central Palace, New York City, during the week of September 20th.
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BUREAU OF MINES The Radium-Uranium Ratio in Carnotites. S. C. LIND . ~ X D C. F. WHITTEMORE.Technical Paper 88. 28 pp. Paper, j cents. This is a report on an investigation of the physical and chemical properties of certain carnotites with a discussion of the radium-uranium ratio as determined by various methods. The problem is discussed in its theoretical aspects and the practical application of the ratio as affecting the basis of purchase and sale of carnotites is pointed out. I t is stated that “Radium may be easily determined in one operation by the emanation method, either by solution or by ignition from tubes in which it has been sealed for one month to reach equilibrium. “In contrast with the success of the solution and the ignition methods for de-emanating carnotite, the method of fusion with sodium and potassium carbonates and the fusion-andsolution method both gave low results and were abandoned.” These conclusions are drawn from the analyses of tncntyfour lots of the ore from which an average ratio was found identical with that of pitchblende (3.33 X 10-9. The range iu d u e wasrfrorn 2.48 to 4,s X IO-’.
