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 Physical Chemistry from Ostwald to Pauling: the Making of a Science in America Linus Pauling: A Man and his Science Schwazer Bergbuch The Right Place at the Right Time From Cologne to Chapel Hill From Design to Discovery	Andrew J. Butrica with the assistance of Deborah G. Douglas, Praeger, New York, NY, 1990. John W. Servos, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1990. Anthony Serafini, Paragon House, New York, NY, 1989. Erich Egg, Ed., Akademische Druckund Verlagsanstalt, Graz, Austria, and Verlag Gluckauf GmbH, Essen, Germany, 1988. John D. Roberts, American Chemical Society, Washington, D. C., 1990. Ernest L. Eliel, American Chemical Society, Washington, D. C., 1990. Donald J. Cram, American Chemical Society, Washington, D. C., 1990.	27
Letters.		30
Divisional News. Events of Interest Future Meetings 1991 Officers 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