Sm,-In CIIILJIISTRY AND IXDUSTRY of Rlnrch 4, 1030, p. 206, tlicrc is rcproduced a pliotograph of Kckul6 and sonic of liis pupils, whicli wns sho~vn to the Socicty of Chcinicnl Industry lnst surnnier by Dr. JJ. IT. Bnckclniid. This photogriiph is to be found in Vol. I of l<clcul6's biography (August lCcki116, by R. Anscliii tz, 2 vols., Berlin, 1029) opposite p. 272, wlicrc it is stritctl tlint tlic pcrsons in tlic pliotogniph arc : Sitting, from lcft to riglit, TliEotlorc Swnrts, Kckulb, Carl Ulaser ; stnnding, from lcft to right, August Nnpcr, ~\rill~clni Kotncr, I3scli, Scninicl, Dchrcnd, Ladcnburg, According to Anschiitz the pliotogmph rcprescnts lickuli! with his assistants niid pupils during his Glicnt period, but no actunl dntc is :issigncd to it. It would appear, tlicrcforc, that in tlic Icgcntl untlcr tho p11otogr:~ph in tlic issuc of Crismsriw AWI) INDUSTRY rcfcrrctl to iibovc, scvcrnl of thc individunls havc bccn wrongly idcntificd, in particulur tlic two 1vho nrc stated t o bc Roscoc nnd Dcwar. In 1503, tlic dntc assigned to thc photogrnpli, ROSCOC, who lind not bccn a pupil of Iickul6, had nlrcndy bccn in RInncliestcr scvcral yenrs. Dcwnr did not arrive in Ucl;u16's Inborntory in Glicnt until tlic suninicr of 1867 (cf. dnscliiitx, loc. cd., 11, 358). I nm, Sir, ctc., London, W.C.1 0. J. \'\LICER March 6, 1039 PERSONAL AND OTHER ITEMS Dr. 1Iugh S. Taylor, hcnd of tlic clicinistry dclmtnicnt n t Princcton Univcrsity, nntl Dr. 7'. Uusli, ~ircsidcnt of tlic Carncgic Institution of W:1sliinyton, liiivc rcccivctl a~rrirds of @800 from tlic b o d of directors of the ltcscrircli Corporiition of Ncw York. Tho 1iwird to