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Washiigton University, St. Louis, Ma.-8 Assistantships ($750 with exemption from tuition and laboratory fees, and allowance for breakage); 1 Industrial Fellowship ($500 to $750 with similar exemption from fees); several University Fellowships ($500). and Scholarships ($200 with similar exemption from fees). Address inquiries t o L. MCMASTER. Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.-1 Part-Time Assistantship ($550 with exemution from tuition). Duties required are preparation for lectures and laboratories. . Address inquiries to HELEN S. FRENCH. Wesleyan University, Middletown, C o n n . 4 to 6 Half-Time Assistantships ($600 6rst year, and $800 second year, plus exemption from tuition and charges far breakage); 2 Industrial Fellowships, with limited teaching duties. Address inquiries OF CBE~STRY. to DEPARTMENT West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va.-6 Graduate Assistantships ($650); 4 Graduate Fellowships (approximately 8500); 1 Graduate Assistantship E. CLARK. ($1200); 3 Fellowships (81200). Address inquiries to FRIEND Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.-1 Jeavons Fellowship ($1200); 1 Cushman Fellowship ($750); 2 Ohio Chemical Manufacturing Company Fellowships (5900); 1 Scholarship ($500). All of these positions carry exemption from tuition and laboratory fees. 3 Assistantships (.%00-1000 and frcc tuition). Address inquiries to E. J. BRNTON, Dean of the Graduate School. Williams College, Williamstown, Mas-2 Part-Time Assistantships ($1200 and exemption from tuition and fees). General assistant work required in general, qualitaMBARS. tive, organic, and physical. Address inquiries to BRAINIIRD Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.-2 Part-Time Assistantships ($753 and exemption of one-half of $280 tuition). Supervision required in five threehour laboratory periods per week. Address inquiries to W. L. JENNINOS. Yale University, New Haven, Conn.Several Assistantships ($850-1000, without remission of tuition, laboratory fees, and breakage amounting to about $350): several Scholarships and Fellowships that are usually reserved for Ph.D. degree candidates in the final year; the Loomis Fellowship ($1500). Address inquiries to ARTHURJ. HILL. ~
J. T. BAKER CHEMICAL COMPANY ANALYTICAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1931-32 Progress in chemistry has been so rapid and carried to such a degree of specialization in certain directions that there is need to halt momentarily and consider its effects. To a great extent the real progress in science is dependent upon precision methods of measurement. Analytical chemistry, particularly quantitative, is the principal instrument of measurement of chemical science. Although great advance has been made in this branch of chemistry, it has not kept pace with the progress made in the other branches, and the latter are demanding more and more precise quantitative methods. Important and useful as these other advances may be, they nevertheless have done much to detract attention from the fundamental importance of pure research in analytical chemistry.
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Active participation in the research development of a subject is one of the prerequisites to the successful teaching of that subject. It is felt that institutions of learning should place the teaching of both elementary and advanced quantitative chemistry in charge of men with due regard to special fitness, love, and desire for this branch of chemistry. Analytical chemistry, though the oldest and one of the most useful branches of chemistry, has descended from its former position of respect and undoubted potency and influence in the development of chemistry because of the glamour of publicity attached to research in new fields; because of the lack of capable and inspirational teachers in analytical chemistry; and because of the occasional conception that this branch of chemistry is too much like the A, B, C of one's career in the field of chemistry. Extensive progress in certain fields of chemistry has focused attention on the present status of analytical chemistry by the demand made for products requiring fine precision methods of measurement for the constituents contained in them. Biological, metallurgical, and other scientific investigations requiring a study of the effect of minute quantities of this or that element, and its combinations upon the problem a t hand, force upon us the necessity of finding better and more reliable methods for their measurement. Indeed, progress is often arrested pending improved analytical technic. Believing in the fundamental importance of pure research in analytical chemistry for the further development of chemistry as a whole, and desiring to encourage study in this branch of chemistry as a teaching major, the J. T. Baker Chemical Co. has established several fellowships to the value of one thousand dollars (81000.00) each a year. Eastern Division 1. The fellowship shall be known as the J. T. Baker Chemical Company Eastern Fellowship for Research in Analytical Chemistry. 2. The fellowship will be granted to an advanced student in analytical chemistry for study in an institution conferring the doctor's degree in chemistry in the New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, or Maryland. 3. The objects of this fellowship are to develop fundamental research in the quantitative estimation of inorganic components as distinguished from routine application of established methods; to encourage such research; and, in general, to develop reliable precise chemical measurement. 4. The holder of this fellowship will receive $1000 annually. Ordinarily, the fellowship will not be awarded to the same candidate for two years in succession. 5. The fellowship may begin in the autumn or in a summer session and
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each candidate will be expected to devote a t least nine months to the research. 6. A candidate for this fellowship must possess the following qualifications: (a) A bachelor's degree or its equivalent. (b) A broad training in the fundamental branches of chemistry, including inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry as well as qualitative and quantitative analysis. 7. I n awarding this fellowship preference will be given to those who have already had experience in research in chemistry. 8. Application for the coming academic year should be made before February 15th to the chairman of the committee and should include the following information:
(4 Age. (b) Degrees. (c) Previous training in chemistry. (d) Outline of proposed problem. ( e ) Name of person under whose direction work is to be done. It is understood that the applicant will ascertain the require. ments of the institution where the work is t o be done. Consideration of the applications will be facilitated if five copies are sent. 9. Within a month after the end of the academic year for which the fellowship is awarded the holder of the fellowship shall send to the committee and to the J. T. Baker Chemical Co. a report of work accomplished during the year, and i t is expected that the results of the work will be published in the journals of the American Chemical Society within a reasonable time. 10. Information on points not covered by the articles above may be obtained from the committee: N. HOWELLFURMAN, Princeton University, Chairman PHILIPE. BROWNING, Yale University, Secretary GREGORY P. BAXTER,Harvard University E. M. CHAMOT, Cornell University H. A. FALES,Columbia University Mid-Westem Division 1. This fellowship shall be known as the J. T. Baker Company Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry. 2. The object of this fellowship is to emphasize the need of fundamental research in inorganic analytical chemistry, particularly quantitative, as distinguished from routine application of established methods; t o en-
