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PERSONAL NOTES Mr. Char1es.S. Hawes, in charge of the Bureau of Researc h Mr. SiJasI. Royal has resigned from the Semet-Solvay Process and Statistics of the War Trade Board Section of the Depart- eo., in order t o take up his new business relations with the firm meat of State, died suddenly on Friday, April 22. 1921, in of Royal Bros., in Atlantic City, - - N. -T. Chicago, Ill., where he was on a special investigation for the Dr. Colin G . Fink, of South Yonkers, who organized and for Department. Mr. Hawes joined the War Trade Board in 1918 the past four years directed the research laboratories of the and remained with the new Section when the old Board was Chile Exploration Co., has resigned his post. Dr. Fink dissolved. As head of its Bureau of Statistics, which has been was formerly in charge of research at the Edison Lamp Works, chiefly concerned of late with the inportation of dyes and chem- and has been editor of the “Electrochemistry” section of Chemicals and coal-tar products, Mr. Hawes recently compiled the ical Abstracts since 1907. report on “Coal-Tar Dyes for Which Licenses Were Granted Mr. Montford Morrison is now consulting engineer of the during the Fiscal Year 1920.” Mr. Hawes was fifty-one years International X-ray Corporation, New York City, having of age. formerly been chief engineer of the Victor X-ray Corporation of Dr. Albert C. Hale, died a t his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Chicago, Ill. Sunday, April 24, at the age of seventy-five years. Dr. Hale Mr. F. C. Fair, formerly resident representative of the American was head of the department of physical science in the Brooklyn High School from 1883until his retirement in 1912. Dr. Hale was Standardizing Bureaus, Washington, D. C., having supervision one of the early members of the AMERICANCHEMICAL SOCIETY, of the manufacturing of their pharmaceutical products, has and served as a director from 1887 to 1902, as vice president in become chief chemist for the Central Railway Signal Co., a t their Hammond, Ind., plant. 1889, and as general secretary from 1889 to 1902. Prof. J. H. Mathews recently made a lecture tour among six The executive office of the National Exposition of Chemical Industries has been moved from 480 Lexington Ave., to 342 of the Michigan and Ohio Sections of the AMERICANCHEMICAL SOCIETY, lecturing on “Color Photography” and “PhotochemMadison Ave., New York, N. Y. Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former president of Dartmouth Col- istry.” lege, has been elected president of the Massachusetts Institute of Mr. Philip A. Patterson has resigned as chief chemist of the Technology, Cambridge, Mass., which vacancy was occasioned Lincoln Motor Car Co., Detroit, Mich., and has accepted a about a year ago by the death of Dr. R. C. Maclaurin. Dr. position with the chemical department of the United States Nichols has been director of research a t the Nela Park Labora- Rubber Co., at Detroit. tories, Cleveland, Ohio, since leaving Dartmouth. He will Dr. Warren C. Vosburgh, formerly a national research fellow be inaugurated on June 8. at Columbia University, is now in charge of research in the Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood has been elected head of the Uni- laboratory of Marion Eppley, Newport, R. I. versity of Pennsylvania. The title of the position has not yet Dr. Reid Hunt, professor of pharmacology in the Harvard been announced, inasmuch as the usual presidential duties will Medical School, has been appointed by the Surgeon-General of be dividedbetwem General Wood and the acting provost, Dr. the United States Public Health Service, a member of the adJ. H. Penniman. visory board of the Hygienic Laboratory to succeed the late Dr. C. L. Alsberg has resigned as chief of the Bureau of Dr. W. T.Sedgwick. Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture to become Mr. C. H. Campbell has severed his connections with Garrett a director of the Food Research Institute a t Stanford Univer& eo., Brooklyn, N. Y . ,and has accepted a position with Wm. sity, California. Dr. Alsberg will assume his new duties about McMurray & Co., manufacturers of pure food products and July 1. household necessities, St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Harper F. Zoller, formerly chemist with the Dairy DiviProf. William Moore has obtained a leave of absence for a sion Research Laboratory of the U. S.Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., is at present bacterlological chemist for the period of six months from the University of Minnesota, where he is associate professor of entomology, t o work on the deNizer Laboratories Co., Detroit, Mich. Mr. Robert S. Scull has left the post of technical manager for velopment of arsenical substitutes for use in the control of the Japanese beetle. His work is with the State of New Jersey and Curd & Blakemore Co., Louisville, Ky., to take the position of chemical engineer for the Paul DeLaney Co., Inc., food manu- the U. S. Bureau of Entomology. Mr. Edgar S. Ross, who for the past eighteen months has been facturers, Brocton, N. Y. doing private research work with Prof. C. James of New HampDr. C. G . Storm has been transferred from the posjtion of shire College, Durham, N. H., recently went to Philadelphia professor of chemical engineering a t the Ordnance School of will continue research investigations a t the Greenwich Application, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to the office of the and Laboratories of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Manufacturing Service, Ordnance Department, Washington, Point Company. D. C., for technical duty in the ammunition division. Mr. G . L. Erikson, chemist in charge of the manufacture of Mr. Dwight Tenney, chief engineer of the Franklin Baker dyes, etc., a t the Cable, Wis., factory of the Sunbeam Co., New York, and formerly connected with the engineer- azo Chemical Co., has accepted a position in the printing ink deing staff of the National Biscuit Co., has become associated with partment of the Manz Engraving Co., Chicago, Ill. the Pease Laboratories, Inc., New York City, as head of their Mr. Alfred A. Chambers resigned as assistant t o the metalnewly organized department of engineering. Mr. Tenney will continue his connection with the former company as consulting lurgist a t the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., Youngstown, O., in order to become chief chemist with the Chicago, Milengineer, having charge of all technical development work. Mr. R. K. Durham, who was connected with the Lexington waukee & St. Paul Railway Co., Milwaukee, Wis., a vacancy Roller Mills Co., Lexington, Ky., as chief chemist, has become occasioned by the appointment of Mr. George N. Prentiss t o director of laboratory control and research with the Rodney the position of engineer of tests. Mi. Herbert Philipp has given up his consulting practice at Milling Co., of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Reeves W. Hart recently joined the research staff of the New York and New Brunswick, N. J., and has taken over the New York Quebracho Extract Co. Mr. Hart was formerly plant management of the Dicks David Co., in Chicago, Ill. research chemist with Kullman, Salz & Co., of San Francisco, Mr, Carl Moe, previously employed a t Stevens Point Pulp & Paper Co., Stevens Point, Wis., where he had charge of the Cal. Miss Ruth E. Merling, who received her Ph.D. at the Uni- technical work concerning their sulfate pulp mill, has accepted versity of Illinois last June, has left the B. F. Goodrich Co., a position as chief chemist with the Minnesota & Ontario Paper where she was employed as a research chemist, and has accepted Co., International Falls, Minn. Dr. E. W. Washburn, for some years head of the ceramic a position as instructor in chemistry at Illinois Woman’s College, department of the University of Illinois, has become editor Jacksonville, Ill. of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, succeeding Mr. Mr. Albert G. Loomis has resigned as assistant professor of chemistry a t the University of Missouri, to become physical Homer F. Staley. Mr. M. L. Berryman resigned as general superintendent of chemist for the new Cryogenic Laboratory, Washington, D. C. Mr. Enoch Karrer has severed his connection with the Bureau refineries of the North American Oil & Refining COrP.9 Oklahoma City, Okla., last November in order to accept a position as of Standards as physicist and now holds a similar position in the superintendent of the Inter-Ocean Refining Co., Riverside, 111. Nela Research Laboratory, Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Miss Emily Grewe, chief chemist for the Seahoard Milling Co., at Kansas City, Mo., now has charge of the laboratory of the Federal Milling Co., a t Lockport, N. Y. Upon the recommendation of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Mr. W. B. Thompson, copper industrialist of New York City, recently received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and Mr. C. H. MacDowell, president of the Armcur Fertilizer Co., received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Mr. J. Roy Haag, formerly assistant in soil investigaticns at Maryland Experiment Station, College Park, Md., has been appointed instructor in agricultural chemistry at Penn State College, State College, Pa.
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Mr. Arthur J. L. Hutchinson has resigned as chief chemist with the Wallace Refineries at Taft, Cal., to accept a similar position with Wallace & Brcoks, Breckenridge, Texas. Mr. R. R. Lewis, research chemist a t the Experimental Station of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., in Wilmington, Del., is now chief chemist for J. C. Haartz, Inc., of New Haven, Conn. Miss Leone Oyster, who has been doing graduate work a t the University of Wisconsin, has taken a position as instructor in chemistry a t Albion College, Albion, Mich. Mr. H. T. Buchanan has resigned his position with the Mauser Mill Co., Treichlers, Pa., to become chief chemist of the Texas Star Flour Mills, Galveston, Texas.
OBITUARIES John Downer Pennock John Downer Pennock, a director and general manager of The Solvay Process Company and a member and councilor of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, died a t his home a t Syracuse, New York, Friday, March 11, 1921, following a brief illness. His death removes from the chemical profession one of its most competent and well-known members. Mr. Pennock was truly a leader of his profession, having been many times honored because of his great ability. He was appointed by Secretary of State John Hay as United States delegate to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry at Berlin in 1903, and was the Belgian representative on the Jury of Awards a t the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. He was a member of the Chemicals Committee of the Council of National Defense during the world war, and was a member of the Executive Board of the American Chemical Alliance. His activities in the chemical field covered practically his entire life, from his graduation from Harvard University in 1883, until the time of his death. For a year after his graduation he acted as an instructor a t Harvard, but in 1884 became affiliated with The Solvay Process Company as a chemist. During the thirty-seven years which followed, he rose to the / position of general manager of that corporation. A member of many JOHN DOWNER PENNOCK clubs and societies, Mr. Pennock leaves a vacancy i n the chemical world difficult to fill. He was president o f thp Central New York Section of the American Chemical Society for several years; a member of the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Institute of Mining Enginlers, and the Archaeological Institute of America. He was a member af the executive committee of the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association; a member of the Electrochemical Society; a director of Associated Industries of New York State, and a membei of numerous technical and social organizations in his home city and in New York. To a number of these societies he contributed valuable scientific papers. Mr. Pennock was born August 16, 1860, a t Morristown, Vermont, being a son of Samuel McMaster Pennock and Alma Tinker Pennock. When he was seven years old the family removed to Somerville, Mass., where he obtained his early education and fitted himself to enter Harvard University. His interest in his alma mater was great. He was one of the men most instrumental in securing the new chemical laboratories for that institution; was a member of its Endowment Fund Committee for Central New York, and created a scholarship there in memory of his son, the late Stanley Bagg Pennock. Of a lovable character, Mr. Pennock made and held a host of friends in both the business and social world. The love and esteem in which he was held by his associates is perhaps best illustrated in the following tribute, incorporated in the records
of the Board of Directors of The Solvay Process Company a t a meeting held shortly following his death: “His high character commanded the respect of all, and the spirit of unselfish devotion and cheerful loyalty with which he served the Company was a constant inspiration to allhisassociates. “His broad, human sympathy and lovable character endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, both in business and social life. His qualities as a good citizen were recognized by all, and he was constantly drawn upon for service to the community to an even greater extent that he was able to undertake.” E. L. PIERCE
Thomas Lynton Briggs Thomas Lynton Briggs, born in London, December 27, 1858, died a t his home in Flushing, N. Y., April 3, 1921. His grandfather was the first maker of aniline oil and colors in England, a business to which his father succeeded; and he himself had his secondary education a t Wiesbaden (under Fresenius) and a t Zurich; after this he was in the employ of Read Holliday’s Sons, makers of aniline colors, a t Huddersfield, Eng., and came to New York, January I, 1888, as chemist for their works in Brooklyn. The day before his death he finished twenty years’ service with the General Chemical Company as research and works chemist, for whom he was the leading expert in the use of platinum as a contact agent, or catalyst, in making sulfuric acid. He undoubtedly knew more about this than anyone else in the world, as the practice of this company is believed to be in advance of that of any foreign manufacturers. Impurities in the materials used, or abnormal chemical conditions, are liable to stop or retard the action of the catalyst, in regard to which they are said to be “poisons;” and in devising prevention and remedies for this his wide knowledge and his inventiveness were of great service. He was never satisfied because a process gave good results; he sought patiently to understand i t fully; then to perfect its use, and perfection THOMAS LYNTONBRIGGS is a high and difficult ideal; but his mind was of that sort, persistent, resourceful, ingenious, thorough. He was one of the best amateur botanists about New York; since the death of Dr. Arthur Elliott he was probably the bestinformed man in the city in regard to early photographic processes. Socially, he was a delightful companion; a singularly modest and retiring man, he was still accessible to everyone; his unvarying kindness and consideration of the welfare of others united with his unfailing humor and interesting talk to make him attractive, and his circle of friends included everyone who knew him. Besides his son, Dr. T. R. Briggs, physical chemist and professor a t Cornell, his family consisted of his wife and daughter. A. H. SABIN
