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News  Items  and  Personal  Notes 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(       Oct.,  1921. 
Twelfth  Lecture.  Thursday  evening,  April  5,  1922.  "The  Raw  Ma- 
terials of  the  Chemical  Industry."  By  Prof.  Samuel  P.  Sadtler, 
Professor  Emeritus  of  Chemisty,  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy and  Science. 
The  successful  development  and  establishment  of  a  chemical 
industry  is  primarily  based  upon  a  supply  of  cheap  and  satisfactory 
raw  materials. 
For  the  inorganic  chemical  industries  these  are : 
Fuels,  including  coal,  petroleum  oil  and  natural  gas ;  salt,  either 
solid  or  in  the  form  of  brine,  limestone;  sulphur  or  pyrites;  phos- 
phates; nitrates. 
For  organic  industries : 
Fuel,  as  before  stated;  wood  and  cellulose  fibre;  other  textile 
fibres;  sugar  and  starch  yielding  raw  materials. 
Review  of  the  position  of  the  United  States  in  respect  to  these 
materials. 
Thirteenth  Lecture.  Thursday  evening,  April  29,  1922.  "Food  From 
the  Air."  By  Dr.  Henry  Leffmann,  A.  M.,  M.  D. 
A  popular  and  interesting  account  of  how.  the  nitrogen  of  the 
air  can  be  made  to  enter  into  such  combinations  as  make  it  avail- 
able for  many  industrial  and  commercial  processes.  The  newer  work 
on  the  up-building  of  proteins  makes  it  possible  to  expect  a  food  sup- 
ply from  the  air  at  some  not  far  distant  date. 
Fourteenth  Lecture.  Thursday  evening,  May  4,  1922.  "Natural  Silk 
and  Artificial  Silk."  By  Dr.  Chas.  E.  Vanderkleed,  Lecturer  on 
Chemical  Control,  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and 
Science ;  During  the  World  War  With  Hercules  Powder  Com- 
pany. 
Comparisons  and  contrasts  between  natural  silk  and  artificial 
silk.  Methods  of  preparation  of  natural  silk  and  of  manufacture 
of  artificial  silk.  Commercial  uses  and  possibilities  of  both  varie- 
ties. 
Dr.  Joseph  Jacobs,  of  Atlanta,  Georgia,  Is  Honored  by  the 
University  of  Georgia. — A  recent  issue  of  the  Atlanta  Georgian 
carries  the  following  report  of  honors  bestowed  upon  Dr.  Jacobs,  a 
