BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Number 3, Spring 1989

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
From the Editor's Desk	William B. Jensen	3
Letters		3
The 1988 Dexter Address. Some musings on the problems of writing on the history of chemical technology	Lutz Haber	4
Books of the Chemical Revolution. Part I of this new series describes the lexicon of the revolution, the Methode de Nomenclature Chimique of 1787	Ben Chastain	7
The History of the Dexter Award Part III of this continuing series explores the award's second decade	Aaron Ihde	11
Diversions and Digressions. A small twist in the early history of nuclear fission	Fathi Habashi	15
A Center of Crystallization. The 1893 World's Congress of Chemists represented the emergence of the ACS at the international level	James Bohning	16
Translations. In which last issue's puzzle proves more complex than expected		21
Whatever Happened to ....? Discovered while trying to transmute mercury into silver, Homberg's pyrophorus beguiled chemists for more than a century	William Jensen	21
Bones and Stones. What chemists can learn from the past	Ralph Allen	24

Book Notes.
American Chemists and Chemical Engineers	Wyndham Miles, Ed. 1976	26
Chemistry at UTK: A History of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville from 1794-1987	George K. Schweitzer 1988	26

Questions and Queries.		26
Divisional News Message from the Chair Report of the Program Chair Election Results Notes from Members Events of Interest Future Meetings 1989 Officer's Directory		27