BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Number 9, Spring 1991

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
The 1990 Dexter Address. Records of Chemistry: Combustion or Conservation?	Colin A. Russell	3
The Rise and Decline of the British Dyestuffs Industry. Some interesting parallels for the solid state electronics industry	Martin D. Saltzman and Alan L. Kessler	7
The First Half Century of Chemistry at Clark University. Endowed by an industrialist in 1887, the first 50 years of chemistry at this nascent American university had its ups and downs	Paul R. Jones	15
Chemical Industry in Colonial Virginia. All human societies have a chemical base - even in the wilderness of the New World	Will S. DeLoach	19
Old Chemistries. A look at Thomas Ewell's Plain Discourses on the Laws or Properties of Matter	Robert H. Goldsmith	22
The 1990 Bibliography. The literature continues to grow		25

Book Notes.
A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain Reviewed by William B. Jensen	Christopher Hamlin 1990	32
Aproximación a la evolución historica de los métodos de adjuste de las ecuaciones quimicas Reviewed by William B. Jensen	Lluis Garrigós i Oltra 1990	33
The Japanese and Western Science	Masao Watanabe 1990	33
Svante Arrhenius	Yu. I. Solovyov 1990	34
From Chit & Naef to Firmenich. S. A.	Roger Firmenich 1990

Letters.		34
Divisional News. Awards Events of Interest Future Meetings		34
Parting Shots. A brief history of the test tube clamp	William D. Williams	37
Future Issues. A preview of what's to come		39