Mar., 1917
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PERSONAL NOTES
March 2-“New Method for Nitrogen Fixation” (experimental, showing utilization of home-made apparatus), by Dr. J. E. Bucher, professor of chemistry Brown University Providence R. I. March >b--“Chemical Strdcture and the Biological Function of Tissue Elements,” by Dr. P. A. Levene, chief chemist, Rockefeller Institute, New York City. March Z3-“The Conservation of Pine Forests through the Methods of Chemical Research” (illustrated by specimens and stereopticon), by Chas. H. Herty. Editor, Journal of Industrial b Engineering Chemistfy. March 3O-“The Getting of Wisdom,” by Dr. C. E. K. Mees, director of research department, Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. April 13-“Colloids in Pharmacy” (illustrated and experimental). dy-Dr., John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati, 0. Aprrl 27-“Some Chemistry of the Tropics” (illustrated from recent observation), by Dr. I,. H. Friedburg. professor emeritus, College of the City of New York. ,
’ Mr. Alex. L. Feild has left the Bureau of Mines and accepted the position of metallurgist and physical chemist with the Gulf Pipe Line Company. His address after March I j will be Gulf Pipe Line Company, Gulf Building, Houston, Texas
Mr. K. L Kithil, formerly connected with the Bureau of Mines, is now general manager of the Schlesinger Radium Company, Denver, Colo.
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The department of chemistry of the College of the City of New York offers during the Spring Semester, 1917, the following remaining lectures, open to the public:
The Franklin Institute has recently awarded its Elliott Cresson Gold Medal to Dr. Edwin Fitch Northrup, Research Physicist, of Princeton, N. J. This award was made in recognition of a special type of electric furnace developed by Dr. Northrup, in which a temperature of more than 3000’ C. can be developed, and of his pyrometric methods and new pyro
