INDUSTRIAL
February 10, 1923
AND ENGINEERING
The Newly Elected Director
CHEMISTRY
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CONGRESS DELAYS HELIUM RECOVERY
I L L I A M H O S K I N S of Chicago, consulting chemist, W newly elected director of t h e American Chemical Society, was born at Covington, Kentucky, J u l y 15, 1862. H e came t o
After conducting exhaustive hearings on t h e bill t o appropriate funds for t h e recovery of the hélium which is constantly going t o waste from t h e natural gas wells of the Southwest, t h e ComChicago a t a n early age, a n d directly from high school entered mittee on Public Lands of the House o f Representatives h a s t h e employ of G. A. M a r i n e r , a commercial chemist, w h o h a d decided t h a t t h e bill should have gone t o the Committee on Military Affairs in the first place. been a classmate of C . F . Ciaandler a t Lawrence Scientific The result is t h a t there is no possibility of passage of the bill School. For two years a t this session. That, means t h a t a delay of a t least a year will private instruction in be made, since t h e President h a s announced t h a t there will be chemistry was received no extra session of Congress this year. from h i s employer in The Lands committee decided that t h e bill did not come return for service as within its jurisdiction. laboratory boy. This was "William Hoskins' introduction t o chemistry. Since then selfinstruction through SYMPOSIUM ON CATALYSIS years of close appliT h e program of Division of Organic C î i e m i s t r y at t h e Spring cation in commercial Meeting will include a symposium o n " C a t a l y s i s / ' R. R . laboratory, home labRenshaw, secretary, has announced. I t is possible t h a t papers oratory a n d library, will b e presented by some of t h e European chemists who will with" never-faltering be present. Abstracts of papers to be p r e s e n t e d should reach love for t h e science, the secretary, a t New York University, n_ot later than March 12. h a s won for him an enviable record of accomplishment a n d a host of friends a n d REDUCED FARES admirers. Secretary Parsons announces t h a t arrangements with railroads He early showed a have been made for fare-and-a-half for t h e round trip to N e w strong scientific bent. H a v e n for the Spring Meeting of the A . C. S. from nearly all A t fourteen years of sections excepting t h e far west. Tickets will be sold u p o n age h e was a member presentation of a certificate of identification which may be obof t h e Illinois Microtained from t h e secretary, and, after Ma_rch 15, from secretaries scopical Society a n d of local sections. a t seventeen its secretary.
Because h e w a s
WILLIAM HOSKINS
n o t y e t of age, t h e p a t e n t covering his invention, of t h e gasoline blowpipe, which first introduced t h e use of liquid fuel for assay [furnaces, w a s taken o u t in his father's n a m e . Since then h e has made a n u m b e r of important contributions to industry. Perhaps he is best known for his connection with t h e production of nichrome metal. I t w a s in William Hoskins' laboratory a n d under his direction t h a t A. L. Marsh, d i d t h e work leading t o t h e M a r s h p a t e n t s now controlled by t h e H o s k i n s Manufacturing C o m p a n y of Detroit. M r . Hoskins, t h i r t y y e a r s a m e m b e r of t h e American Chemical Society, h a s been c h a i r m a n of t h e Chicago Suction ; was t h e first president of t h e Chicago Chemists' Club; is a c h a r t e r member of t h e Institute of Chemical Kngineers, a n d is affiliated with a n u m b e r of other scientific and engineering societies. H e represented Illinois for t h e American Chemical Society during t h e w a r a s associate member of trie N a v a l Consulting Board, a n d h a d charge of t h e work from P i t t s b u r g h West as member of t h e Committee on Engineering a n d Inventions. H e is o n e of t h e editors of t h e Technological Series a n d a member of t h e Committee on Chemistry a n d Chemical Technology of the National Research Council. M r . Hoskins' wide experience a n d broad interest in t h e welfare of the Society fits h i m particularly well to b e of service as a director.
Walter Stanley Haines
TO HONOR GOODYEAR A program commemorative of the w o r k of Charles Goodyear who did t h e original work on t h e vulcanization of rubber i n a n d near N e w Haven, will be given by the IRubber Division, a t t h e Spring Meeting of the Society, according- to the announcement of Arnold H . Smith, Secretary. The division plans t h e erection of a tablet in Goodyear's memory. I t also is the announced intention of D r . Bruni of Mjian, Italy, t o be present a t the meeting a n d t o present a paper on his late researches on t h e acceleration of vulcanization. N e w B a r o m e t e r and R e c o r d e r T h e Uehling I n s t r u m e n t Company, P a t e r s o n , N . J., has developed a n d placed on t h e market a n e w combined barometer and vacuum recorder primarily for d e t e r m i n i n g t h e absolute back pressure in steam turbine and condensing plants, the barometric pressure, the condenser vacuum, the existing of air leakage into the condenser, etc., a n d the a o i l i t y of the condenser t o handle t h e load.
AMERICAN INSTITUTE O F CHEMISTRY FORMED Complete organization of t h e American Institute of Chemistry was effected o n February 5 in New Y o r k . T h e officers a r e : Horace G. Byers, President; Lloyd Va.n Doren, Vice President; Clarence K. Simon, Treasurer; Lloyd L a m b o n i , Secretary; R a l p h E. Lee, L. R. Seidell, Frederick D. Cra_ne, Leon W. Parsons, H . L, Lourie, Casimir Funk, L. J- Matos, Miss C . Μλ Hoke, a n d Stanislaus Skowronski, councilors.
Walter Stanley H a i n e s of Rush Medical College, Chicago, died on* J a n u a r y 27, a t trie ag;e of 72 years. H e was t h e senior member of t h e R u s h faculty^ a n d h a d occupied t h e chair of chemistry, toxicology and materia medica since 1S76. Dr. Haines was born i n Chicago i n 1850. H i s father, J o h n C. Haines, was mayor of t h e city i n 1858 a n d 1859. After studying a t t h e Massachusetts^ Institute of Technology, Move to Larger Qxiarters Dr. Haines took his medical training a t t h e Chicago Medical College, where he b e c a m e professor of chemistry in 1872. I n D u e t o t h e necessity for increased office space, the York 1876 he w e n t t o R u s h Medical College, where h e was a member H e a t & Ventilating Corporation will, a f t e r March 1st, 1923, be of t h e faculty until his death. located a t 1502 Locust Street, Philadelphia. H e was a member of tiae committee of revision of t h e United States Pharmacopeia from 1900 to 1920, and w a s connected with the Illinois state food standard commission, American To Manage Sales Medical Association, American Chemical Society, Chemical T h e Electro Bleaching Gas Company- has appointed S. Wiilard Society of London, a n d Chicrago Medical Society, a n d was the author of " A T e x t Book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology." Jacobs as manager of sales, t o succeed D . K. Bartlett, resigned.
