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Schultz-Huemann, or some other complete edition of the German chemical patents. I happen to be one of the fortunate who have Beilstein, but I would like another copy for laboratory use. My company is not one of the largest ones and therefore could not subscribe the $30,000, but we will take one copy a t $100 instead of the $10, which you suggest. In fact, if it came down to the scratch you might induce us to pay twice that amount, and we would subscribe proportionally to the reproduction of any one of the editions giving the German patent specifications. I think this is a splendid suggestion on your part. I hope you will push it with all possible speed, and as you say, let the Huns do the worrying about our patriotism. I do not think that this will be very cruel, because I think they will have other things to worry about which will ease the pain caused by this slight offensive. PEERLESS COLORCOMPANY R. W. CORNELISON BOIIND BROOK, N. J. President and General Manager September 20, 1918
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Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: Attached herewith is a copy of a letter which I recently addressed to our Commanding Officer, Colonel Wm. H. Walker. It is self-explanatory. Colonel Walker has approved my suggestion that I write t o you. Since writing the above we have located a copy of Beilstein’s Organische Chemie, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, Transactions of the American Society of Testing Materials, Chemical Abstracts. The attached letter (copy) to Prof. V. H. Gottschalk, University of Missouri, is one which is also Self-explanatory. Prof. Gottschalk’s letter as well as others which we have received are full of splendid patriotism and scientific interest. From what you saw here on your recent visit, you can readily appreciate our need of any files of the well-known chemical journals. Will you give us a lift? We dream of the Ameri c a n Chemical Journal, Journal of the Chemical Society, Liebig’s Annalen, the Berichte, and others. CHEMICAL LABORATORY (Signed) WM. LLOYDEVANS BDGEWOOD ARSENAL Major, C.W.S., U. S. A. September 20, 1918
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DEARSIR: As we are becoming more settled in our laboratory work, the need for the well-known handbooks and chemical journals becomes more apparent daily. We are badly in need of such works as Beilstein’s Organische Chemie, Landolt-Bornstein Tabellen, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Transactions of the American Society of Testing Materials, Tralzsactions of the American Electrochemical Society, and many others that readily suggest themselves. Through the kindness of the duPont Company, of Wilmington, we have been able t o locate the owners of a few of these desirable works, but as you can readily imagine they are very difficult to obtain. You will be happy to know that Dr. Ira Remsen has offered us his Gmelin-Kraut as a loan. It has occurred to me that a notice placed in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Ckemistry and also in Science, explaining the needs of this laboratory, might bring forth loans of books we greatly desire. If the Commanding Officer, Edgewood Arsenal, concurs in this view, might I respectfully sug-
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gest that this notice be asked for, and that all communications in reference to the same be made to the Commanding Officer, Edgewood Arsenal? (Signed) WM. LLOYDEVANS, Major, C. W. S., U. S. A. CHRMICAL LABORATORY EDGEWOOD ARSENAL Augu;t 31, 1918 AGREEMENT
The Edgewood Arsenal acknowledges the loan by Mr. V. H. Gottschalk of the books on chemistry and related subjects, listed below, and agrees to return them without damage a t the end of the war. In case of damage or loss involving any or all of the books mentioned, the Edgewood Arsenal assumes liability therefor up to 150 per cent of the original price. It is understood that the cost of packing and shipping the books to and from Edgewood Arsenal will be borne by the Government. The following books are included in the above agreement: Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Abegg, 6 Vols. Handbuch der angewandten pkysikalischsn Chemie, t o date of last issue shipped to America. Arendt’s Sammlung Chem. und Chem.-Tech. Vortrage, Vols. 1-15. Moissan, Trait6 de Chimie Mineral. Zeitschrift fiir physzkalische Chemie, Vols 42-70, Index 25-50. Annalen der Physzk (Drude), Vols. 1-36. Winkelmann, Handbuch der Physik (Optik, Vols. 3, 4, 5, is loaned t o Prof. Dean). (Signed) WM. H. WALKER CBEMXCAL LABORATORY Colonel, C.W.S., U. S. A. EDGEWOOD ARSENAL August 30, 1918
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, SCHOOL OF EXPLOSIVES MANUFACTURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY The Ordnance Department of the Army, particularly in the Production and Inspection Divisions, is in need of men with training in the manufacture of explosives and the related raw materials. The manufacture of explosives is developing out of proportion to the number of men in the country who have had training and experience in that work. To meet this condition the War Department Committee on Education and Special Training is establishing in the Department of Chemical Engineering a t Columbia University in the City of New York an Ordnance Department School of Explosives Manufacture. The object of this School is to give men with proper preliminary qualifications the training necessary to fit them for use by the Ordnance Department as commissioned officers in the supervision of factory operation and inspection of the finished products in plants manufacturing explosives and raw materials for explosives. The school will be only for enlisted men in the military service who are detailed for instruction in the school by the Ordnance Department. The ways in which students will be obtained are three : I-Transfer of men already in the military service. 2-Induction of men of draft age who have not yet been called. 3-Volunteer enlistment of men not in draft age. The minimum requirement as to technical training for admission will be graduation from a recognized college or university with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry or chemical engineering, or factory experience of equivalent character. The course of training will be of 12 weeks’ length and will consist of:
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I-Military drill and instruction 2-Class room and lecture instruction 3-Laboratory and plant work 4-Visits to plants In the course of study the men will be made familiar with the methods of manufacture, of factory control, and of inspection of explosives such as smokeless gunpowder, trinitrotoluol, picric acid, ammonium nitrate, toluol, phenol, etc. The particular subjects on which emphasis is laid in the course will vary from period to period with the need for men trained for work in particular groups of plants. While in the school each man will be rated both as t o his technical performance and personal qualities exhibited. On the satisfactory completion of the course this rating will be made the basis of recommendation for a commission as second lieutenant in the Ordnance Department. The granting of commission will depend upon the number of commissions available and the varying needs of the Ordnance Department. While worthy graduates are expected t o be commissioned, i t is understood that commissions are not guaranteed. In any case the graduates of the school will be utilized in technical work by the Ordnance Department whether commissioned as officers or not. The assignment of men for the first session has been completed. The second session will start about December I and arrangements for assignments to it should be made about one month earlier. The general plan is to devote the morning hours t o lectures and reading, and the afternoons to laboratory practice. During the course considerable time will be spent in plants actually manufacturing explosives or explosive raw materials. In common with the enlisted men, students in the other special army school a t Columbia, students in this school will have the military drill of the post, amounting t o about an hour and a half daily. FIRSTAND SECOND WEEKS 9-10 A.M. each day, Lectures on the general principles governing the manufacture of explosives and the tests for quality. 10-11 A.M. two days a week. Lectures on military regulations and relations. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice in testing acceptable and unacceptable samples of explosive raw materials such as benzol, toluol, nitric acid, etc. THIRD AND FOURTH WEEKS 9-10 A.M. each day, Lectures on the methods of manufacture and of testing picric acid and ammonium picrate and the raw materials from which they are made. 10-11 A.M. two days a week. Military lectures continued. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice on picric acid, ammonium picrate and related materials. Two days of the third week to be spent a t a picric acid plant in .New Jersey. FIFTHWEEK 9-10 A.M. each day. Lectures on the methods of manufacture and testing of toluol, benzol, solvent naphtha and xylol. 10-1 I A.M. two days a week. Military lectures continued. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice with hydrocarbons. Two,days a t hydrocarbon plants in vicinity of New York City. SIXTH AND SEVENTH WEEKS 9-10 A.M. each day. Lectures on the methods of manufacture and of testing trinitrotoluol. 10-11 A.M. two days a week. Military lectures continued. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice with trinitrotoluol. Two days spent a t the TNT plant a t Kenville, N. J. EIGHTH AND NINTHWEEKS 9-10 A.M. each day. Lectures on the methods of manufacture and testing of guncotton and smokeless gunpowder. 10-1 I A.M. two days a week. Military lectures continued. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice with guncotton and smokeless gunpowder. Two days spent a t smokeless powder plant a t Parlin, AT. J.
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TENTH WEEK each day. Lectures on methods of manufacture and testing of ammonium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, T N T mixtures, and shell filling. I-j P.M. Laboratory practice with ammonium nitrate and ammonium nitrate mixtures. One day a t shell loading plant a t Perth Amboy, N. J. ELEVENTH WEEK 9-10 A.M. each day. Lectures on the methods of manufacture and testing of tetryl and tetranitraniline. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice with tetryl and tetranitraniline. Two days a t a tetryl or tetranitraniline plant. TWELFTH WEEK 9-10 A.M. each day. Lectures on the methods of manufacture and testing of mercury fulminate, other detonators, and fuses. 1-5 P.M. Laboratory practice in connection with detonators and fuses. One day a t plant manufacturing or using detonators, Pompton Lakes, N. J. I t is understood that the field covered by the school will vary from period to period as the needs of the Ordnance Department for men trained for work in particular types of plants may vary. 9-10
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CHEMISTRY FOR SOLDIERS IN TRAINING CAMPS Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: It suggests itself to me that the Publicity Committee of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY should extend its activities into the training camps of the United States Army There is no question in anybody’s mind but that the war is primarily a chemical war. I t has been stated that the man with the most gas will win the war. We are desirous, as a Society, t o increase the influence of chemistry and chemists in the country and the best way that we can do it to-day is to take upon ourselves as a Society to supply elemental chemical information to the soldiers of our Army. All the men have had a t least public school training, so that by primitive similes, it should be possible for a speaker to make chemistry, so far as it relates t o the war, a t least interesting-to the men in the ranks. I feel that this is a golden opportunity for us, which has not as yet, to my knowledge, been taken care J. W. BECKMAN of. SANFRANCISCO, CAL. September 7, 1918
THE EMBLEM OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: Mr. Charles A. Doremus’ letter in the August issue of THIS JOURNAL concerning the change of the emblem of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY must deserve due attention from the members of the Society. The Society’s present emblem must be changed, not because it pictures an apparatus of German invention, but because the emblem does not represent chemical science in any way. Personally, I do not see how a COn absorption bulb can express or convey any wide thought of chemical science and its practice. The emblem of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY should be of such a design that it would express the spirit and the scope of chemical science and should have a business-like and dignified appearance. I confess I do not wear the present emblem, for it is too superficial and has no scientific, technical, or business-like aspect. Something must be done t o raise the standard of the Society’s emblematical expression. SOCIETY, For my part, as a member of the AMERICANCHEMICAL I suggest that Mendelbeff’s pxiodic law be taken as the basis for designing a new, first-class emblem. NATIONAL CARBON COMPANY GREGORY TOROSSIAN CLEVELAND, August 20. 1918
