WILHELM KORNER (1839-1925) Karner was a collaborator of August Kekulh and Stanislao Cannizzaro; afterward, he was rofessor of chemistry in Milano, Italy. His work is especially connectel with Keku1k.s formula of benzene. He was the first to determine the "chemical place" in the aromatic compounds (1:2, 1:3, 1 : ) He explained the construction of resorein and worked on pyridine. For note about the KekulC Album wntrrbuted b Dr E Berl, of Carmgie Institute of Technology, see page 407. ~ e r also i lent the here reproduced.
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E. BERL Carne8ie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania August Kekule (1829-1896), the creator of the valence--or structural-themistry and the formula of benzene and pyridine, was a great collector. He collected and classified butterflies and minerals. He made many friends, especially in his younger years. He kept their photographs in an album. This album was given by his son, Stephan, to the Kekul6 Room of the Technical University of Darmstadt (see JOURNAL oa CHEMICAL EDUCATION, Volume 6,1869 (1929)). It
contains more than ninety photographs. Some of these photographs have been published in the classical biography of August Kekul6, written by his late successor, Richard Anschiitz. Other photographs have not been published up to this time. The writer is happy to publish these at the suggestion of Professor Tenney Davis. Several of these pictures show the scientists a t the time when they were performing their great achievements.
