Wilhelm Ostwald - A correction

Permit me to call your attention to a mistake in the April issue of the. JOURNAL. In the Editor's Outlook ... GENEVA, NEW YORE. Correspondence. Editor...
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Correspondence WILHELM OSTWALD-A

CORRECTION

Permit me to call your attention to a mistake in the April issue of the JOURNAL.

In the Editor's Outlook on Wilhelm Ostwald, i t is stated: "Ostwald received his early training in the Polish City of Riga."' Riga is the capitol of Latvia and the Letts and never was a Polish city. Until the great war Latvia was a part of Russia. E. R. SCHULZ THE PATENTCEREALSCO., GENEVA,NEW YORE

Editor's Note: The information referred to was taken from the book, "New Era in Chemistry," by H. C. Jones, I). Van Nostrand Co., New York City, 1913, p. 172.

' THIS JOURNAL,7,

731 (Apr., 1930).