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in February, 1935. He was president of the Society of Biological Chemists in 1911 and secretary of the Physiological Society in 1906 -08. In 1927 he received the gold medal of the American Institute of Chemists. He was a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, National Academy
Lafayette Benedict Mendel
L authority on nutrition, died December 10 in New Haven, Conn., after an AFAYRTTE
BENEDICT
MENDEL,
WORLD
illness of nearly two years of an organic heart weakness. He was 63 years old. Dr. Mendel received his A.B. degree from Yale University in 1891 and his P H . D . in 1893, and continued his studies at the Universities of Breslau and Freiburg in 1895-96. He received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from the University of Michigan in 1913 and from Rutgers University in 1930. Western Reserve University conferred the degree of LL.D. in 1932. In 1892 he became assistant in physiological chemistry at the Sheffield Scientific School, and in 1897 was made assistant professor. From 1903 t o 1921 he was professor of physiological chemistry at Sheffield and from 1921 until his death served as Sterling professor of physiological chemistry in Yale University. He was a member of the governing board of Sheffield, t h e Graduate School of Yale, and the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Mendel was best known for bis pioneer work on vitamins, particularly vitamin A, but had made notable contributions t o studies on the physiological chemistry of digestion, protein metabolism, physiology of growth, and accessory food factors. He had been editor of t h e Journal of Biological Chemistry and t h e Journal of Nutrition, and associate editor of Chemical Reviews, Mikrochemie, and the Zeitschrift fur Erndhrung. He was the author of "Nutrition, t h e Chemistry of Life," "Changes in the Food Supply and Their Relation t o Nutrition," as well as many articles in scientific journals. Dr. Mendel became a research associate of t h e Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1910 and of the Connecticut E x periment Station in 1930. H e served as a, director of the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology and as an adviser t o the Protein and Nutrition Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Department of Agriculture, and was a member of the advisory board of the J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association. H e was Hitchcock lecturer at t h e University of California in 1923 and Schiff lecturer at Cornell University in 1930. Dr. Mendel was the recipient of many honors. Last year he was elected t h e first president of the American Institute of Nutrition. On his sixtieth birthday, in March, 1932, the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine was dedicated t o him. He was awarded the 1934 Conne. Medal of the New York Chemists Club
of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietetic Association, American Medical Association, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Gastro-Enterological Association, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, New Haven Medical Association, American Society of Pharmacologists, American Home Economics Association, Kaiserlich Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher zu Halle, Societe de Chimie Biologique, Societe Royale des Sciences Medicales et Naturelles de Bruxelles, and the Societe de Biologic. William C. Austin WILLIAM
C.
AUSTIN,
of
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, t h e Ameri-
can Society of Biological Chemists, and the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine Carl A. Nowak ARL A. NOWAK, authority on brewing, died unexpectedly on November 28 at his home in St. Louis. He was 48 years old. Mr. Nowak had been secretary of the Master Brewers Association and editor of Modern Brewing, and was the author of several textbooks on beer making. H e had been a member of the AMERICAN'
C
CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1911.
Edgar B . Stevens
E chemist, died in Buffalo o n October 29, at the a g e of 73. Mr. Stevens was DGAR B.
STEVENS,
retired
R e c o v e r y o f P o t a s h f r o m the Dead Sea—Correction .MERLUB-SOBEL,the American technical correspondent of Palestine Potash, Ltd., noting a statement in our
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August 10 N E W S EDITION relative t o t h e
professor
physiological chemistry and head of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at Loyola University Medical School, died November 20 as the result of a heart attack. Dr. Austin was born January 5, 1895, and received his undergraduate training at the South Carolina Presbyterian College. From 1916 to 1921 he was instructor in chemistry at the Medical College of South Carolina, and in 1922 was Fleischmann Fellow at the University of Chicago, receiving the Ph.D. degree from that university in 1923. Immediately thereafter he took charge of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at Loyola University. In 1927-28 he was granted leave of absence t o work as a National Research Council Fellow in carbohydrate chemistry at t h e Bureau of Standards. Dr. Austin was an active member of the
research
the inventor of the first methanol distillation process, and was the founder of Niagara Research Laboratories. M e m o r i a l Services for M a x Henius N appreciation of the scientific achievements and civic activities of t h e late M A X H E N I U S , the University of Chicago has extended an invitation to the Danish Societies in Chicago and friends of the late Dr. Henius t o hold memorial services in his honor a t the University of Chicago Chapel, Chicago, Ill., a t 1:30 P . M . , Sunday, January 12, 1936. All who wish t o pay tribute to his memory are welcome.
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Bureau of Standards Continues Study of Lithographic Papers N ADDITIONAL fund has been made available by the Lithographic Technical Foundation for further support of a research associate at the National Bureau of Standards, t o assist in additional studies of the printing properties of lithographic papers. The contributors t o the fund are three paper manufacturing companies— the Mead Corp., the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., and t h e Champion Paper and Fiber Co.—and t h e foundation. Through laboratory studies of the properties of offset papers a s related t o the behavior of the papers during commercial printings, the bureau has developed information which assists materially in reducing waste caused b y misregister of successive color prints. Improved papers and paper-conditioning practice have resulted, and further advance is anticipated.
work of Dr. Norton on the recovery of potash from t h e Dead Sea, advises us that Dr. Norton's procedure was tried by Mr. Novomeysky and his associates long before the publication of t h e method and that it was discarded as not being adequate under conditions of practice. For this reason alone D r . Norton's method is not the one being followed at the Dead Sea, and instead the procedure in use is that developed by Mr. Novomeysky and his associates.
Financial News ABBOTT
LABORATORIES
The
volume
of sales and not earnings, after all charges, for the first 1 0 months of 1935 show a marked increase over the same period of 1934. It is probable that the policy of extra dividends will he maintained. FIRESTONE
TIRE
&
RUBBER
C O . is
the only important rubber manufacturing unit that has maintained a common dividend throughout the depression. For the fiscal year ended October 31, 1935, earnings were $1.53 a common share, compared with 71 cents for the preceding year. The dividend rate o n common stock has been 40 cents annually since April 20, 1933, but it is considered probable that the directors will approve an increase at their coming meeting. T h e company's position has been improved b y diversification of i t s activities, particularly in the mechanical rubber goods field. Substantial improvements have been made on plants, machinery, and equipment, in order to raise efficiency and c u t production costs. GLIDDEN C O . Earnings for the first 11 months of t h e fiscal year amounted t o $2,019,659, equivalent, after preferred dividends, to $2.13 a share o n common, compared with $1.45 in the same period of 1934. October w a s a particularly good month. T h e company continues t o benefit from the diversification of i t s products that started before the d e pression. LIQUID CARBONIC Co. has increased i t s
quarterly dividend on common to 4 0 cents and voted an extra payment of 25 cents. This places the stock on a $1.60 annual basis, against $1 previously.
