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THE CHEMISTRY OF WOOD-CORRECTION I n the articles appearing under the above title in this issue, pp. 556 to 566, the following corrections should be made: The formula on p. 557 should be: >O
- CH - CH(0H) >o CH(0H) - CH - CHz
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On p. 560, 1st column, line 8 of text, N/roo should read N l r o ; same column, line 2 5 , iodate should read iodide. Same page, Table I, “Hot Water” column, 4.87 should read 4.78. On p. 561, Table 11. last column, 4.23 should read 5.23. The following foot-notes are t o be inserted: After 2nd paragraph. and column, p, 562 : The excellent results obtained by Dox and Plaisance IJ A m . Chcm.
Soc., 98 (1916). 2156) with thiobarbituric acid for determining furfural are
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unfortunately not easily applicable to the concomitant determination of methylfurfural.
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24 t o i8 per cent, line 18, 1st column, p. - 56.3 . . I n Technologic Paper No. 88. of the Bureau of Standards, “Studies on Paper Pulps,” p. 9, the conclusion is drawn that alkaline processes of cooking pulp do not remove the furfural-yielding complex to the same degree as the acid-sulfite process. Since as a rule only hardwoods are cooked by the soda process the resulting pulps would be expected to yield more furfural from the data given above
On p. 565, last paragraph, the asterisks shpuld be removed. A . W. SCHORGER
FULLER’S EARTH, ETC.-CORRECTION In my article in this issue, p. 599, the dotted line for “White Oil” (20 Yellow, 2 . 5 Red) has been omitted in re-making the drawing, so that the sentence referring to same should be omitted. T. G. RICHERT
PERSONAL NOTES
The Council of National Defense announces the appointment of a sub-committee on chemicals, to serve under the committee on raw materials of the advisory commission, of which Bernard M. Baruch is chairman. Dr. William H. Nichols, of the General Chemical Co., of New York, is chairman of the new sub-division. Besides Dr. Nichols, the sub-committee is composed as follows: Acids-E. R. Grasselli, of the Grasselli Chemical Co., Cleveland; Henry Howard, Merrimac Chemical Co., Boston. Fertilizers-Horace Bowker, New York; Chas. ’ E. MacDowell, President Armour Fertilizer Co., Chicago. Alkalis-J. D. Pennock, Solvay Process Co., Syracuse. Miscellaneous Chemicals-E. Mallinckrodt, Jr., St. Louis. Professor Marston T. Bogert, Chairman of the Chemistry Committee of the National Research Council, has moved his office to Room 332, Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. The Franklin Institute, acting through its Committee on Science and the Arts, has recently made the following medal awards, for especially meritorious papers published in its Journal for the year 1916: The Howard N . Potts Medal t o Professor Ulric Dahlgren, professor of biology, Princeton University; Edward Longstreth Medals of Merit to Mr. George A. Rankin, late of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Prof. A. E. Kennelly, Messrs. F. H. Achard and A. S. Dana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Mr. John D. Ball, late of the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.; and Dayton C. Miller, Professor of Physics, Case School of Applied Science. A number of platinum crucibles were taken from the laboratories of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Rhode Island State College, Kingston, R. I., just prior t o May 7th. The following resolution was adopted by the Georgia Section of the A. C. S. through mail ballot: “Resolved: That the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society, composed of experienced industrial, agricultural and research chemists, feeling that their services and laboratories can assist in preventing waste and promoting industrial efficiency, offer their services to the Government, individually and collectively.”
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Prof. A. W. Smith, professor of industrial chemistry and head of the department of chemistry, a t Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio, was chosen by the Ohio State University as Exchange Lecturer during the week of April 16th t o 2 I S t . Dr. Smith lectured each day on chemical engineering topics. The College of Engineering a t the Ohio State Cniversity made similar arrangements with other institutions, notably Purdue University and the University of Michigan, the lectures from those institutions being electrical and civil engineering. The arrangement is reciprocal, Dr. H. P. Talbot (Chairman), Prof. M . T. Bogert and Dr. W. D. Richardson have been appointed by President Stieglitz as a Committee to consider the proposal of Dr. Bernhard C. Hesse for a Board of Control of Xational Policies. Dr. Hesse presents his plans in full in the April, 1917, issue of THISJOURNAL, page 337. Professors A. B. Lamb and G. B. Frankforter have been added to the Code of Professional Ethics Committee of the American Chemical Society. During the past winter, the Wagner Free Institute of Science of Philadelphia has been giving, under the Richard B. Westbrook Foundation, which the Institute administers, special lectures by the members of its faculty. The Chemistry lectures were: “Food from the Air,” by Henry Leffmann; “Chemistry of Bread-Making,” by Chas. H La Wall; “Catalysis in the Inorganic Field,” by David W. Horn. The lectures will be published. The Publicity Committee of the Philadelphia Section has elected Dr. Henry Leffmann as Chairman and has begun work. It includes representatives of all the important phases of applied chemistry.
On May 4th, McGill University conferred the degree of LL.D. on Dr. W. H. Ellis of the University of Toronto. Dr. Ellis is a past-chairman of the Division of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineers.
Prof. J. H. Buchanan, of the food and sanitary chemistry department of the Iowa State College, and his assistant, J. W. Hawkes, were appointed t o the Officers’ Reserve Corps Camp a t Fort Snelling and are a t present in attendance.
President Stieglitz has appointed Dr. W. F. Hillebrand (Ciinzrman), Dr. W. D. Bigelow and Dr. Charles Baskerville as an Advisory Committee to the Bureau of Standards on Analyzed Reagents in pursuance of a resolution passed by the Council a t the Kansas City meeting.
Mr. W. P. Putnarn, of The Detroit Testing Laboratory, Detroit, Michigan, has been elected President of the Detroit Engineering Society for 1917-1 8. The Detroit Engineering Society includes engineers of all branches of engineering, and numbers over 750 members of the leading men of the community in engineering work.
Dr. Isaac F. Harris, formerly director of the Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories of New York and later director of the Arlington Research Laboratories of Yonkers, h-ew York, has moved from Bronxville, N. Y., to New Brunswick, N. J., where he is head of the department of biochemistry in the research and biological laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons.
