BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY
Number 2, Fall 1988
NOTE: This issue is now open access.
TITLE | Author | Page Number |
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From the Editor's Desk | William B. Jensen | 3 |
Letters | 3 | |
Questions and Queries. Do you have a dream? | 3 | |
Diversions and Digressions. Who first proposed the modern structure for pyridine? | Alan J. Rocke |
4 |
Old Chemistries. Some literary mysteries for connoisseurs of old chemistry texts | William D. Williams | 6 |
The History of the Dexter Award Part II of this continuing series explores the award's first decade |
Aaron Ihde | 11 |
Bones and Stones. The 250th anniversary of Canada's oldest ironworks | Fathi Habashi | 14 |
Whatever Happened to ....? Before the atomic mass unit there was the microcrith - at least in American high school chemistry texts |
William Jensen | 16 |
Chemical Artifacts. The rise and (literal) fall of the Chandler Museum at Columbia | Leonard Fine | 19 |
Book Notes Essays in Chemical History and Chemistry in America |
W. A. E. McBryde, Peter Chung Chieh, and Elisabeth A. Dixon, Eds., Canadian Society for Chemistry, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1988. |
22 |
Translations. Can you unravel this 18th century recipe for a pyrophorus? | 22 | |
Divisional News Report of the Program Chair Awards Notes from Members Events of Interest Future Meetings |
23 |