The physical chemistry of the metals. By Rudolph Schenck. Translated and annotated by R. S. Dean. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1919.) Price 17s, 6d, net

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• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1920
• Weight: 138 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000392116

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BlCRl'RAAI 51131 1% SATART. IVc record with very grcnt rcgrct tllc death, 011 Scptcmbcr 4, of Jrr. U. .I. Sninrt nt Sydiicy, N.S.W., n t tlic ngc of 38. Stnnrt wns cducnted i n Niiglniid nnil h g n n his cnrccr ns n clicmist tit Guy's LIospitnl, LOII~OII, wlrerc Ire scrvcd ns assistant to Sir Tlionias Stcvcnson nnd to tlic lntc ?r. John IVndc. 110 grnduntcd ns U.Sc. i n tlic Un!rcrsity of Loiidon, and iii 1901 obtnincd nn nppolntlncnt a t I'oclwich drsciinl under Dr. 0. Silhrrpd, witl! whom Iic invcstigntwl tlic constitiition of n i t r o p i iodidc, tlic prcpnrntioii of p-bistri:ixobciizclic, niid tho rcniornl of nitrous ncicl from conccntrntcd nitric nntl srilpliuric ncitl. 111 1910, jointly with Sir R o h r t ltobcrtson, Iio publislicd 1111 importnnt pnpcr 011 tllc S I ~I I ~~~C I I I I C O of tllo Abcl hcnt-tcst of grillcotton and nitroglycerin. 110 then left Eiiglnnd for nn cstcndcd tour in tlic 1% Enst to inspcct csplosivcs stores, nnd shortly after liis rcturii wns nppcintcd by tho Govcrnrncnt of Nccv Soiith W?lcs to orgnnisa and inspect tlic Innnufncturc of iron nnd stccl tlicn dcrcloping in tlint Stntc. Aftcr scrviiig two ycnrs in this cnpncity, tho snmo Gorcriimcnt lnccd him n t the hcnd of tho Tcsting Urniicli of tEc D c p n r t mcnt of Pirblic Works (1915), which hc very succcss-