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Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, Ν . Υ. H e entered upon his new duties October 1.
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W. J. BAÊZA, director of the Industrial Research Co., New York, Ν. Υ., has been retained b y the National Guarantors Corp., 122 East 42nd St., New York, Ν . Υ., as technical director i n charge of all physical, chemical, and field tests made on prod ucts appraised b y the company. R. M . BUFFINGTON has been transferred b y Servel, Inc., from New York to t h e factory a t Evansville, Ind., where he will work on t h e Electrolux gas refrigerator and on chemical con trol of plant operation. JACK COMPTONT, who received his P h . D . degree a t T h e
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State University on September 1, has begun work with Harold Hibbert a t the Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Montreal, Canada. FREDERICK G. COTTRELL, of Washington, has been appointed
chief consulting chemist of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Doctor Cottrell for some time has directed the fertilizer experiments for the Authority, which has set aside $4,000,000 for construction of fertilizer works at Muscle Shoals. E. C . CRITTENDEN, chief of the Division of Electricity of t h e U. S. Bureau of Standards, has been appointed assistant direc tor of the bureau in charge of research and testing, to fill t h e vacancy created b y the appointment of L. J. Briggs t o t h e directorship of t h e bureau. Mr. Crittenden has worked a t the Bureau of Standards since July 1, 1909. EARL K. FISCHER, who for the past three years has held a Julius Stieglitz Research Fellowship a t the University of Chicago, working with W . D . Harkins in the field of colloid chemistry, is now employed as research chemist for the United Color and Pigment Co., Newark, N. J. A. V . GROVE has been transferred from the Cleveland office of Steel and Tubes, Inc., to the Chicago office in the Sales Depart ment. R . E. D O Y L E is now sales correspondent in the Cleve land office. J. F . KEELER is now sales engineer, with head quarters a t the Cleveland office. LUTHER L. HILL, former president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, gave the annual address commemorating the 79th anniversary of the birth of William Crawford Gorgas before t h e Lafayette Guild Chapter of the Gorgas Medical Society, University of Alabama, October 3, 1933. His subject was "Medical History." WILLIAM H . HORNE, formerly research chemist a t the Experi mental Station, E . I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., has recently accepted a position as research chemist for F. C. Huyck & Sons, Albany, Ν . Υ . Doctor Horne received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois in June, 1933. WILLIAM A . KINGMAN, formerly chemist with the Dennison Mfg. Co., and recently chemist and technical salesman with the Lowe Paper Co., Ridgefield, N . J., is now representing the Sun Color & Chemical Co., J. Lee Smith & Co., and the Glyco Products Co. in N e w England, with headquarters in Framingham, Mass. RALPH F. NIELSON, for the past three years a member of the fac ulty of the Kansas State College, has sailed for Copenhagen, Denmark, where he will engage in chemical research under J. N . Br0nsted a t the Physical Chemistry Institute of the Uni versity of Copenhagen. JAMES W. POYNTER has accepted a position as laboratory assist ant in t h e research laboratories of the American Rolling Mill Co., Middletown, Ohio. OTTO STERN, experimental physicist and former head of t h e institute of physical chemistry at the University of Hamburg, his assistant, I. ESTERMANN, and E R N S T BERL, eminent chemist
and professor a t the Technical University at Darmstadt, have joined t h e scientific staff of t h e Carnegie Institute of Tech nology, Pittsburgh, Pa., where they will divide their time be tween teaching and research work. Professors Stern and Ester mann will continue work in molecular beams at the physics research laboratory which will be opened this year at Carnegie. A. LLOYD TAYLOR, formerly head of the Chemistry Department, State Teachers College, Murfreesboro, Tenn., has accepted a position as research chemist for the Girdler Corp., Herald Post Bldg., Louisville, K y . DONALD K . TRESSLER has resigned his position as chief chemist, T h e Birdseye Laboratories, Gloucester, Mass., in order to become chief in research, Chemical Division, N e w York State
CHARLES W . WALTON, J R . , who received his doctorate in June
from the University of Michigan, is now working i n the re search and new products division of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, as research chemist. L. E . W I S E has been appointed professor of organic chemistry at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. POTASH FROM N E W MEXICO T H E U N I T E D STATES POTASH C O . , of New Mexico, has gradu
ally increased i t s operations until it is now producing at the rate of 1350 tons a day. August shipments totaled 27,500 tons, and September showed a further increase. The American Potash Co. is installing equipment and will soon begin produc tion on its holdings. The New Mexico Potash & Chemical Co. owns 15,000 acres of land, all underlaid with potash, and has organized t w o subsidiaries which are about to develop mines. The parent company has entered into a contract for the de livery of 1,000,000 tons of potash as rapidly as it c„n be produced.
Necrology CLARENCE E U G E N E GARLAND CLARENCE E U G E N E GARLAND, associate professor of chemistry,
West Virginia University, died August 7, 1933, at t h e home of his parents in Crandull, Tenn. Doctor Garland h a d been in failing health for the past year, but was critically ill for only a few weeks before his death. Doctor Garland was born at Crandull, Tenn., on June 13, 1898. He graduated from Emory and Henry College in June, 1918. Following his graduation he was employed for two years a s a chemist in the laboratory and plant of the Smethport Extract Co., Inc., Damascus, Va. In October, 1920, he entered the Graduate Department of Chemistry of The Johns Hopkins Uni versity. H e was awarded Hopkins Scholarships for the years 1920-21 and 1921-22. H e received t h e degree of doctor of philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University in June, 1924. Doctor Garland became a member of the Chemistry Depart ment, West Virginia University, in the fall of 1924, and remained until his death. His principal interest in chemistry lay in the organic field, particularly i n the chemistry of cyclohexyl phenol and its derivatives. During the past few years h e became interested in the chemistry of coal, with especial reference t o the structure of the humic acids, and at the time of his death he was directing research in this field. H e was the author of numerous papers in these fields. H e was a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and of Gamma Alpha. Doctor Garland is survived b y his wife and one daughter. B y those who knew him, he will be remembered as a keen and kindly man, whose devotion t o his science and his students was unfailing. JAMES HALLER GIBBONEY JAMES H A L L E R GIBBONEY, chief chemist of the Norfolk & West
ern Railway, died October 30 after an operation. Mr. Gibboney, who was 54 years of age, had been connected with the Chemical Department of the railway since August 15, 1906. From 1901 to 1903 he was assistant chemist in t h e Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, and i n 1903-04 chief chemist for t h e Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Co. From 1904 until he became associated with the railway he was intructor in chemistry at t h e Virginia Polytechnic Institute and chemist for the State Geological Sur vey.
He was a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY,
and president of the American Society for Testing Materials in 1926-27. THOMAS W. STUART THOMAS W. STUART, identified with the chemical industry of Great Britain for the past sixty years, and responsible with John Hargreaves and Captain Bald for founding the Society of Chemi cal Industry, died at Liverpool September 29. Mr. Stuart, who was 87 years of age and had retired, was particularly identified with the alkali industry and was well known for his success in settling all manner of labor difficulties. He had received many honors, including the Queen Victoria Medal for 25 years of ser vice in the volunteer movement.
