BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Number 8, Winter 1990

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
Perspective Lecture. History of chemistry and the education of teachers	Aaron J. Ihde	3
Jean-Baptiste Dumas. Some curious parallels between the life and career of this famous French chemist and that of the famous French author, Victor Hugo	Ben B. Chastain	8
Victor Serrin and the Origins of the Chainomatic Balance. Some French antecedents of the famous Becker patent	John T. Stock	12
Laura Alberta Linton: An American Chemist. A portrait of a woman chemist in the late 19th century	Mary R. S. Creese and Thomas Creese	15
Old Chemistries. Celebrating the bicentennial of America's first chemistry book: John Penington's Chemical and Economic Essays	William D. Williams and Wyndham D. Miles	18
Chemical Artifacts. The Apparatus Museum at Transylvania University	George M. Bodner	22

Book Notes.
Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940-1990 Reviewed by Harry E. Pence	Andrew J. Butrica 1990	27
Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: the Making of a Science in America Reviewed by Derek A. Davenport	John W. Servos 1990	27
Linus Pauling: A Man and his Science Reviewed by Derek A. Davenport	Anthony Serafini 1989	28
Schwazer Bergbuch Reviewed by Fathi Habashi	Erich Egg, Ed. 1988	29
The Right Place at the Right Time From Cologne to Chapel Hill From Design to Discovery Reviewed by William B. Jensen	John D. Roberts 1990 Ernest L. Eliel 1990 Donald J. Cram 1990	30

Letters.		30
Divisional News. Events of Interest Future Meetings 1991 Officer's Directory		31
Chemical Genealogy Update.		33
Parting Shots. Of Beehives and Babo generators	William B. Jensen	34
Future Issues. A preview of what's to come		35