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progressive action of any sort was observable,” he said, “and it is-firmly believed that none occurred.” Some of the matters receiving attention a t the Bureau of Standards are as follows: Permeability, bursting strength, and endurance under service of balloon and aeroplane fabrics; investigation of apparatus for generating hydrogen; procedure in balloon filling; methods of detecting inflammable gases; study of aeroplane dopes and varnishes, glue, oils, metallic coatings, and cleaning materials; investigation of fire-retarding paints, and paints for helmets. Experimentation on sugar looking to the production of glycerin is being continued in the laboratory of the Internal Revenue Service. A statement to the effect that this work had been transferred to the Food Administration is denied by Dr. A . B. Adams, the chief chemist a t the Treasury Department’s laboratory. Exporters of chemicals have filed scores of protests growing out of delays incident to the operation of the export licensing
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provisions. A number of prominent exporters have come to Washington to investigate the matter in person. Several of those who called a t the offices of the Exports -4dministrative Board went away convinced that everything humanly possible is being done a t the Bureau of Export Licenses to facilitate the movement of traffic. The business of the country is so extensive that the Bureau is literally buried in the applications for licenses which are coming in. The Chemistry Committee of the National Research Council has submitted to the Executive Committee of the Council the following resolution: “That the Executive Committee of the Research Council be requested to take immediate steps to organize an informal conference or committee composed of chemists representing the Research Council and the Government bureaus with a view to avoiding the isolation of the several groups engaged in chemical work for the government, and with a view of securing the most efficient prosecution of the work of the Chemistry Committee.” Favorable action on the resolution is said to be assured.
PERSONAL NOTES Dr. Lloyd Balderston has been appointed professor of leather chemistry and technology a t the College of Agriculture of the Tohoku Imperial University a t Sapporo, Japan. Dr. Balderston is a t present with the Elk Tanning Company a t R i d p a y , Pa. He is associate editor of the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association and editor of the leather and glue section of Chemical Abstracts. Dr. Colin G. Fink, for the past ten years in the Research Laboratories of the General Electric Company, has been appointed head of the new laboratories of the Chile Exploration Company, located a t noznd Street and 10th Avenue, New York City. Abraham Henwood, professor of chemistry a t Drexel Institute and presiding officer of the Philadelphia Section of the has received the degree of doctor of science from MuhlenA. C. S., berg College. Regular monthly sessions of the Philadelphia Section of the A. C. S.will be resumed a t the Engineers’ Club, in Spruce Street, that City, this month. During the summer vacation period the membership was increased beyond 700. Richard H. Chapman, Jr., is head of the Sanazone Manufacturing Company which has just been incorporated in Pennsylvania with a capital of $IOO,OOO for the manufacture of chemicals. H. J. Broderson, instructor in industrial chemistry a t the University of Illinois, Urbana, has accepted a position with the Standard Oil Company a t Whiting, Ill. Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, for the past four years connected with the U. S. National Lluseum, Washington, D. C., has been transferred to the position of crystallographer in the Bureau of Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. L. 1%’. Bahney has severed his connection with Yale University to accept a position as metallurgical engineer with the Scovill hIanufacturing Company, Waterbury, Conn. Mr. A. \V. Phillips, for the past year general superintendent of the Aetna Chemical Company’s Canadian smokeless plant a t Drummondville, P. Q., has resigned to become superintendent of the Canadian Electro-Products Company’s synthetic acetone plant a t Shaivinigan Falls, Quebec. The U. S . Civil Service Commission announces the following open competitive examinations: Chemist in Forest Products (male), salary $ 2 0 0 0 to $2400, applications received until October 16; Xetnllographist (male), salary $1j O 0 to $zooo; Assistant Chemist (male), salary $1800 to 52000. Until further notice, and on account of the urgent needs of the service, applications for the last two positions will be received a t any time. Papers will be rated promptly and certification made as the needs of the service require. The Cufnlyst announces the appointment of Mr. 11. D. Edmonds as its Associate Editor. hIr. Edmonds, who has recently become a member of the A. C. S., is the editor of the business section of the Public Ledger of Philadelphia. He has devoted a great deal of attention to the growth of chemical industry within the past three years, and his paper has published more authentic chemical news than any newspaper in the country. H. D. Batchelder has been appointed head of the Cleveland Laboratories of the National Carbon Company.
Dr. Charles K. Francis, for the past seven years chemist and professor of petroleum technology in the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, has resigned to become chief chemist for the Cosden Oil Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mr, Charles R. Oberfell has resigned the position of Chemical Director of England Walton Co. to accept a similar one with the firm of John H. Heald, Inc., of Lynchburg, Va., manufacturers of tanning and dyewood extracts. Mr. Oberfell is president of the American Leather Chemists Association, and is one of the foremost investigators in the field of leather chemistry. Robert A. Hall, Ph.D., formerly assistant professor in physiological chemistry a t the University of Minnesota, has been appointed to a lieutenancy in the army and is now on his way to France for immediate service. Dr. Frank C. Gephart, chemist a t the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology, New York City, has received a commission as Captain, Sanitary Corps, United States National Army, with headquarters a t the Surgeon-General’s office, Washington, D. C. Dr. J. H. Matthews, of the University of Wisconsin, has been appointed captain in the Ordnance Department. Dr. Leon I. Shaw, of the department of chemistry of Northwestern University, has been advanced to the position of assistant professor of chemistry on leave of absence for one year for service with the government. He has received the appointment of first lieutenant in the Ordnance Officers’ Reserve Corps. Mr. Ernest E. Follin, of Detroit, has received the Commission of First Lieutenant, U. S. Army. The death is announced of Dr. Eduard Buchner, professor of chemistry a t Wurzburg, who died from wounds received while serving as major a t the front. Dr. Buchner was distinguished for his work on the chemistry of fermentation, and was the recipient of the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1907. Word has just been received of the death of Francis Sutton, author of Sutton’s “Systematic Handbook of Volumetric Analysis,” a t Great Plumstead, England, April 16 or 17 last, a t the age of 86. Adolf Ritter Van Baeyer, professor of chemistry a t the University of Munich, honorary member of the A. C. S., and one of Germany’s best known organic chemists, died in Germany the latter part of August, a t the age of 82. He was distinguished for his work in coal-tar chemistry, especially that on synthetic indigo and eosin. He was professor a t the University of Berlin in 1866, a t Strassburg in 1872, going to Munich in 187j. In 1905 he was the recipient of the Nobel prize for chemistry. We learn from the I n d i a Rubber Journal of the death of bfr. Clayton Beadle a t Sidcup, Kent, England, on August 16, a t the age of 49. He was particularly known for his rubber research work, which he took up in association with Dr. H. P. Stevens. Among the honors conferred upon him by many scientific bodies were the John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium of the Franklin Institute, the gold medal of the Societe pour 1’Encouragement de 1’Industrie Nationale, and the silver medal of the Royal Society of Arts.
