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May 1
  • Letter from W. E. Bleick, Institute for Advance Study, Princeton, NJ to LP, RE: Bleick thanks LP for calling to attention his oversight of Sherman's treatment of the proton affinity of ammonia. Bleick is still of the opinion, however, that one of the four neighbors of an ion in NH4F is closer to it than the other three. [LP's letter 1934-04-12, LP's reply: 1934-05-13]] [Filed under LP Books, 1939b.4]
  • AHP writes cheque to: Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., amount $5
  • AHP writes cheque to: G. Edwin Williams amount $3.07
  • AHP writes cheque to: Union Oil Co. Of California amount $4.40
  • AHP writes cheque to: Arroyos Poultry Farm amount $1.66
  • AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., amount $22.28
  • AHP writes cheque to: Herbert A. Whipple amount $18
  • AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Co., amount $3.20
  • AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Co., amount $5.28
  • AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $10.74
  • AHP writes cheque to: Gould and Attlesey amount $8
  • AHP writes cheque to: Los Angles Gas and Electric Corp., amount $5.95
  • AHP writes cheque to: F. N. Chamberlain amount $8.65
  • AHP writes cheque to: William D. Crane amount $85


May 2
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE: Electron diffraction data - Cyclopropane
  • AHP writes cheque to: A. H. Shaw amount $1.40


May 3
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE: Electron diffraction data - Bromine
  • AHP writes cheque to: Augustine Wilson amount $41.42


May 4
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE:
  • Electron diffraction data-carbon tetrachloride
  • Measurement of points of inflection - Acetylene, Methyl Acetylene and Dimethylacetylene


May 5
  • LP Research Notebooks, RNB 09 RE: Electron diffraction data-carbon tetrachloride
  • Letter from Professor A. Favorsky to LP RE: Invites LP to Leningrad for the Jubilee Congress in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Dr. Mendelejef's birthday. Asks for LP's immediate reply.


May 7
  • AHP writes to: Caltech Drama Club amount $2.25


May 11
  • Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests that LP review enclosed manuscript entitled "L'Affinite chimique et la Structure des Molecules. Valence, Polarite et Energie"[LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
  • LP writes cheque to: Dr. B. Podolsky amount $5


May 12
  • Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests LP review the enclosed manuscript entitled "The Relative Strengths of Some Hydrocarbon Derivatives of Boric Acid" by Yabroff, Branch and Bettman. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
  • Letter from LP to F. H. Willard, National Research Council RE: LP provides an up-to-date report on the electron distribution work done under his NRC grants in 1930-32. [Willard's letter to LP 1934-03-28] [LP Science Box 14.027, Folder 2]
  • LP writes cheque to: Cactus and Succulent Society of American amount $3


May 13
  • Letter from LP to Dr. W. E. Bleick, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, RE: LP would like to know what Bleick has based his opinion regarding the NH4-F distances in NH4F on x-ray data. [Filed under LP Books, 1939b.4]
  • Manuscript Notes: "Hybridization of Bond Functions" [LP Science Box 3.003, Folder 18]
  • Letter from LP to Dr. W. E. Bleick RE: LP is interested to learn of his opinion regarding the NH4F on X-ray data. Also explains that by carrying out the Madelung constant calculations that his explanation requires a bigger deviation of the parameter than is allowed by Zachariasen's work. [Bleicks letter to LP 1934-05-01] [LP Books, 1939b.2]


May 17
  • AHP writes cheque to: Augustine Wilson amount $4.21


May 24
  • Note from W.L. Bragg to LP RE: Invites LP to attend a meeting in London of the International Union of Physics, in the first half of October.[Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #28]


May 26
  • Manuscript: Waves and Particles, Sigma Xi - Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, Eugene, Oregon [LP Speeches 1934s.1]


May 28
  • Final Examination in Chemistry 137, Seminar on the "Nature of the Chemical Bond" (Given by Dr. Klug at the University of Utah)


May 31
  • Notes, reprint re: Resonance [LP Science Box 3.003, Folder 16]


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