BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Number 2, Fall 1988

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
From the Editor's Desk	William B. Jensen	3
Letters		3
Questions and Queries. Do you have a dream?		3
Diversions and Digressions. Koerner, Dewar and the 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	W. A. E. McBryde, Peter Chung Chieh, and Elisabeth A. Dixon, Eds. 1988	22
Chemistry in America 1876-1976: Historical Indicators	Arnold Thackray, Jeffrey L. S turchio, P. Thomas Carroll, and Robert Bud 1985	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