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OBITUARY Joseph William Richards Joseph William Richards was born in Oldbury, Worcestershire, England, on July 28, 1864. He came to this country in 1871, attended the public schools of Philadelphia, Pa., and subsequently received the following degrees from Lehigh University: A.C. (analytical chemist) in 1886; M.S. in 1891 and Ph.D. in 1893. In 1886 and 1887 he was employed in his father’s metal refinery a t Philadelphia, after which he was continuously employed in teaching a t Lehigh University up to the time of his death. He was one of the founders of the American Electrochemical Society; its first president, 1902-3, and secretary 1907-1921. He held many offices in other societies and especially in the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, with which he was officially connected for J. W. RICHARDS more than a dozen years
as councilor, director, and vice president; for seven years he was chairman of its Iron and Steel Committee. He was also appointed in several public capacities, such as member of the Engineering Council, Engineering Foundation, America= Engineering Standards Committee, Engineering Division of the National Research Council, Naval Consulting Board; president of the Chemical Section of the Franklin Institute and its professor of electrochemistry for three years; member of the U. s. Assay Commission, member of the Jury of Awards, Department of Chemistry, National Export Exhibition, Philadelphia; member Jury of Awards and chairman of subjury on Metallurgy, Panama-Pacific International Exposition. His most important books were a “Treatise on Aluminum,” which is the established authority on this subject in English, and three small volumes on “Metallurgical Calculations” which have been translated into five foreign languages. He was also a voluminous contributor to technical literature by monographs and discussions. His chief interest outside of his professional work was fondness for travel, a sympathetic taste for music and languages, and a deep interest in the study of religious and philosophic subjects. He was noteworthy for a seemingly tireless capacity for painstaking work, but in his relations to others he exhibited always a gentlemanly courtesy and an unselfish devotion to upbuilding the interests OF engineers and chemists. BRADLEYSTOUGHTON
PERSONAL NOTES President Edgar F. Smith, provost emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected an honorary member of the SociktC de Chimie Industrielle, and also an honorary member of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa. Sir William Pope has been awarded the “Grande Mkdaille” and Dr. F. G. Cottrell has been elected an honorary member of the Socikt6 de Chimie Industrielle. Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols has resigned the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his resignation has been accepted by the executive committee of the corporation. His decision resulted from the unfavorable condition of his health. Dr. Elihu Thomson, of Swampscott, chief consulting engineer of the General Electric Company, who served as acting president after the death of President Richard C. Maclaurin in January 1920, has again been appointed to that position. Mr. Reuben L. Lindstrom, superintendent of the Point St. Charles Plant, Canadian Steel Foundries Ltd., died Dec. 12, 1921, a t his home in Montreal, He left the Bettendorf Co., Bettendorf, Iowa, four years ago to become metallurgist with the Canadian Steel Foundries Ltd., a position which he filled until appointed superintendent of the St. Charles Works eighteen months ago. Dr. J. A. Gunton has been appointed head of the chemistry department in Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Gunton recently received his doctorate of philosophy from the University of Illinois. Mr. Lauchli M. Curie resigned as research chemist with the Hooker Electrochemical Company a t Niagara Falls to accept a position as assistant professor of mathematics in Davidson College, Davidson, N. C. Mr. Paul R. Dawson, formerly teaching fellow in chemistry a t the University of North Carolina, has accepted an appointment as assistant biochemist in the Soil Fertility Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. Mr. W. S. Mahlie, formerly in the laboratory of the Buckeye Steel Castings Co., Columbus, Ohio, is a t present employed as chemist and bacteriologist for the City of Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr. L. C. Humphrey has entered the graduate school at t h e University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., and will take advanced work in chemistry toward the doctorate degree- H e will also do some assisting in the School of Chemistry. Mr. Humphrey, previous to September 1, was instructor in chemistry a t Montana State College, and was also in charge of the Montana Oil Laboratory a t Montana State College, Bozeman, Mont. Dr. Austin Bailey, who has recently been employed as superintendent of the apparatus division of the Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y., has resigned his position to accept an assistant professorship in thezphysics department a t Kansas University, Lawrence, Kans. Mr. R. F. Remler, formerly assistant chemist in the nutrition department of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, now holds an Industrial Fellowship a t the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. R. E. Wilkii, after receiving his master’s degree a t t h e University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, resigned his assistantship there to accept a position as instructor in chemistry a t Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans. Mr. John Jos. Gorrell, who has been connected with t h e Technical Direction Bureau of the Aluminum Company of America, Xew Kensington, Pa., has accepted n position as analytical chemist with tbe Cambria Steel Co., Johnstown, Pa. Mr. S. G. Byam, chief chemist a t the Fairfield Rubber Works of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., has resigned from that position to become chief chemist with entire charge of the technical development a t the Plymouth Rubber Co., Canton, Mass. Mr. Parry Borgstrom, formerly research associate a t the Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., is now instructor in physiological chemistry, Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans, La. Mr. John H. Waldo has left Illinois, where he received his. undergraduate work and master’s degree, to assume the position of assistant professor in chemistry and physics in Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.
