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labor and materials necessary will of necessity be borne by the firm, individual, or corporation wishing to manufacture the products. The chemists of the Color Laboratory will assist with expert advice, etc. The Department reserves the right to publish all the data obtained from the technical experiments. This offer of assistance will not be held open by the Department for an indefinite period.
should be in the field of dye chemistry. Miss Lucina Robinson, who graduated from Smith College in 1917and who since then has held a position with the General Chemical Company a t their Marcus Hooks works, has been appointed to the fellowship for the year 191g-zo.
EDWARD HART FELLOWSHIP FUND Alumni and friends of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., under the leadership of Mr. George P. Adamson, have raised $10,000 to be known as the Edward Hart Fellowship Fund. It is proposed to use the income of the Fund in fostering graduate research in the field o€ viscous and plastic flow. Applications are to be made to Professor Eugene C. Bingham, Easton, Pa., prior to April first of each year.
In the article of the above title [THISJOURNAL,11 (~grg), the name of H. H. Clapp should have appearedas co-author with Messrs. Uhlinger and Cook, as Mr. Clapp for several months had complete charge of the manufacture and' worked out most of the improvements. R. H. UHLINGER March 5, 1919
GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY MT. HOLYOKE COLLEGE Two graduate fellowships in organic chemistry, each to the value of $600, available for the academic years 1919-20 and 1920-2 I, respectively, have been granted to Mount Holyoke College by the National Aniline and Chemical Company. They were accepted by the college with the understanding that any investigations undertaken by students who are holding them
Editor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemislry: Through a regrettable clerical error the name of Mr. Prindle, one of the most active members of the Patent Committee of the National Research Council, was omitted among the signers of the report. May I request you to correct the omission in your next number? NEW YORKCITY L. H. BAEICELAND, Chairmalz March 5 , 1919
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ing for the restriction ofbotash imports for two years met with objection and was notgfurther considered. Senator Walsh, of Montana, in objecting to the bill, did so on the ground that there was too little time left before the end of the session to give the bill the consideration which, in his opinion, so far-reaching a measure should have. The potash industry made a splendid showing a t the hearings conducted by the' Senate Committee on Mines and Mining. The producers went into detail showing the remarkable accomplishments since the German supply was cut off. The industry has reached a point, they declare, where they can see their way clear in a very short time to compete with the imported product. Had the war lasted two years more, it is said, or if Congress would restrict imports for two years, America would have another great industry. The bill will be brought forward again on the reconvening of Congress. Failing to get the bill through, Senator Henderson, the chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, succeeded in securing the signatures of thirty-five senators to a request addressed to the War Trade Board asking that its powers be used t o keep out foreign potash. This the War Trade Board declines to do on the ground that it was not intended that the powers be used in giving protection to any industry when no matter of war necessity exists.
The bills of particular interest to chemists caught in the legislative jam, when the 65th Congress passed out of existence on March 4, 1919,were the general leasing bill, the water power bill, and the potash bill. Many of the other bills which failed affected to a greater or less extent certain purchases of and payments for chemical materials. These were the general deficiency bill, the Army appropriation bill, Navy appropriation bill, agricultural appropriation bill, and the sundry civil bill. While many comparatively more important bills were failing, the validation of informal contracts bill passed and was promptly signed by the President. Section 5 of that bill carried relief for the producers of war minerals. The section, as printed in this correspondence last month, was from a conference report which afterwards had to be changed, due to pressure from the House of Representatives. On that side of the Capitol there was great opposition to any measure which would place the entire $~O,OOO,OOO of the War Minerals Act a t the disposal of the Secretary of the Interior to settle claims. There was also the feeling that the long list of war minerals in the original act should not be included in the relief bill. This led to the modification of Section 5, so as to limit the amount which could be expended for relief to $8,500,000,and the minerals to be considered to manganese, chrome, pyrites, and tungsten. Immediately following the signing of the bill, former Senator J. F. Shafroth, of Colorado, was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to head the War Minerals Relief Mission. Philip M. Moore, of St. Louis, and former Representative M. D. Foster, of Illinois, were appointed to serve with him. The commission will have charge of the payment of the losses incurred in an effort to supply war minerals a t the behest of the Government. Every effort is being made to prevent the filing of clainis which are without merit. For this purpose, an extensive questionnaire has been prepared. The thirty-two questions asked therein must be replied to and an affidavit made that the replies are correct. These questions are so pertinent that it will be evident to any one, who is uncertain as to the status of his loss, whether his claim falls within the category prescribed by the law. The commission is under the direction of Director Manning, of the Bureau of Mines, and has its offices in those of that Bureau.
Caustic soda to the extent of 97,376,334pounds was exported from the United States during 1918,according to the figures of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The largest exports went to Japan. While caustic soda was sent to nearly every country in the world, the principal markets in the order of their importance were as follows: Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Argentina, Philippines, Mexico, Italy, France, and Australia. During 1918,the United States exported 21,754,728 pounds of glycerin. Italy was by far the heaviest purchaser, taking more than half of the total exports. The extent of our trade in glycerin is shown by the fact that exports were made to fifty-three separate countries. Exports to England were in second place, amounting to 6,575,725 pounds. Other countries which received important shipments were Canada, Chile, Japan, Philippines, British South Africa, Scotland, Mexico, Cuba, China, and Venezuela.
The high hopes which have been entertained by the American producers of potash were dashed to pieces when the bill provid-
A controversy is in progress between the Secretary of the Navy and Van H. Manning, of the Bureau of Mines, as a result
