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• Reprint: Sodeman WA, Burch GE. Pregnancy in active sickle cell anemia. New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal 90 (3): 156-158. [LP Science Box 6.012, Folder 1]

• LP writes cheque to: Dr. J. Sherman amount $100 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Market Basket #15 amount $9.43 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: W. J. Sloane amount $216.30 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to Dick RE: mentions that he saw Dr. H. W. Thompson at Oxford was granted a Leverhulme Fellowship to work in Pasadena. [Filed under B: Individual Correspondence: Box 23.1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Gerald Wendt RE: LP is glad to hear that W. A. Noyes Jr. has been elected to the Editorial Board but asks that Latimer be considered for a later time. [Wendt's letter: August 21, 1937] [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box 70.5, file: Chemical Reviews]
• Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, C. I. T. RE: LP recommends that J. Sherman, Research Fellow in Chemistry receive an increase in his payments from the Rockefeller Foundation for a few months to cover his traveling expenses to and from Ithaca so that he might continue his work while LP is there. [Barrett's Reply September 8, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Mr. Curtis G. Benjamin RE: LP reports that while visiting Berkeley he noticed that Giauque's copy of Lewis and Randall's "Thermodynamics" was completely worn out. LP asks that a new copy be sent as soon as possible. [Filed under: McGraw-Hill and Co. Box #253.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Don M. Yost RE: LP recommends that he reconsider his plans to get the calibration done by Lewis and instead should get them done by Brickwedde at the Bureau of Standards. [Filed under: Y: Individual Correspondence, Box #460.3]
• Letter from LP to Professor William F. Giauque. [Filed under: G: Individual Correspondence, Box #136.8]

  September 1, 1937

  Professor W. F. Giauque

  Department of Chemistry

  University of California

  Berkeley, California

  Dear Bill:

  The polymorphism of the rare earth sesquioxides is discussed in several places in Goldschmidt's papers. The most important reference for your purpose seems to be Goldschmidt, Ulrich, and Bart, Skrifter det Norske Videnskaps Akad. Oslo I. Matem.-Naturid. Klasse, 5, 15 (1925). In the case of gadolinium the type B seems to be made by heating the hydroxide or nitrate to temperatures above 880°C., whereas the type C is obtained at temperatures below about 880°. Type C is cubic, and I feel that it should show the smallest value of Δ. Type B seems to consist of two or more submodifications, one rhombic or monoclinic trigonal and the second trigonal. The crystal structure of the B type is not known. Type A, which is hexagonal, has not been prepared for gadolinium but by consideration of the other rare earths it seems probable that it could be formed at temperatures above about 2500°. From the description of your method of preparation as involving boating to a red heat, it seems to me that you might have either B or C. If you would like a powder photographs taken of your material to decide the question, send me a small sample (0.1 gm.) and I will have it photographed.

  With best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:mrl

• Letter from LP to W. A. Noyes RE: LP approves the signing of a contract on Friedel-Crafts Synthesis by Dr. N. O. Calloway, provided that Professor Fieser also gives approval. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: Lola Cook amount $51.55 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Nellie Durby amount $2.10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Wendell M. Latimer RE: LP informs Latimer that he was not elected to the Editorial Board for Chemical Reviews. Thanks Latimer and his wife Glatha for the good dinner and time they had together. [Filed under: L: Individual Correspondence, Box #212.15]
• Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, C. I. T. RE: LP requests that Darrell Osborne be paid for his teaching fellowship in $30.00 monthly installments. [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]
• Letter from Oleta Dickinson to LP RE: Oleta sends LP another check and is happy to report that she and her son will be departing from New Orleans to go to Colombia to be with Neil. [LP's reply: September 13, 1937] [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.2]

• Newspaper clipping: "Harvard Head Visits Caltech," Los Angeles Times RE: Dr. James Bryant Conant, president of Harvard University, will spend several days visiting Caltech where he has congratulated LP on the fact that Caltech is regarded as a leader in the field of chemistry in the country. Accompanying photo of LP, James B. Conant and W. B. Munroe. [LP Scrapbooks 6.003, p. 3]

• AHP writes cheque to: Dr. McMillan amount $140 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]

• Letter from Charles Degard to LP RE: Is sending LP a copy of the work he completed while at the Institute. [Filed under: Degard, Charles, 1936-1940: Box #91.1]
• Letter from L. A. Kimpton to LP RE: Thanks LP for his letter of September 1. Looks forward to being able to visit LP either in Pasadena or when he visits Deep Springs. [Filed under: K: Individual Correspondence, Box #198.9]
• Notes on the structure of Cs4CuAu2Cl12 [LP Science Box 3.003, Folder 25]

• AHP writes cheque to: Adohr Milk Farms amount $24.84 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Athenaeum amount $3.49 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Bode's amount $50.25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Bullock's Inc., amount $1.66 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: C.J. Gould amount $24 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Children's Home Society of California amount $2 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: City of Pasadena amount $20.38 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Collector of Internal Revenue amount $26.54 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., amount $56.01 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: F. C. Nash and Co., amount $1.11 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Katharine Putnum Crane amount $85 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Los Angeles Gas and Electric Co., amount $5.23 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Model Grocery Co., amount $1.05 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Myrtle Vencil amount $53.71 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Pasadena Corset Shop amount $9.41 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Polytechnic Elementary School amount $50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Southern California Telephone Co., amount $4.06 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Standard Oil Co. Of California amount $12.58 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: T. W. Mather Co., amount $17 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP To Professor E. D. Eastman RE: Asks Eastman that he see to it that Ketelaar meet the members of the department and finds out what is going on. [Filed under: E: Individual Correspondence, (Eastman- Eide), Box #106.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor George S. Parks RE: On behalf of Dr. J. A. A. Ketelaar, (who is working at CIT this summer) LP writes to see what is going on at Stanford at this time. [Filed under: P: Correspondence, Box #312.1]
• Letter from LP to Professor Joel H. Hildebrand RE: Informs Hildebrand that Dr. J. A. A. Ketelaar who accompanies this letter is requesting information on what is being done at Berkley. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #159.3]

• Letter from Edward C. Barrett, C. I. T. to LP RE: Acknowledging receipt of LP's note of September 1, 1938. Barrett believes that the proposed ideas are feasible and he will, of course, submit them to the Executive Council. [LP's letter to Barrett September 1, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP recommends that the paper by Goebel and Wonzke be accepted for publication. LP makes a few comments concerning small revisions. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 3]
• Letter from LP to Dean L. A. Kimpton RE: LP looks forward to seeing him in Pasadena around the 20th and offers both and he and Mrs. Kimpton to stay at his home. [Filed under: K: Individual Correspondence, Box #198.9]

• LP writes cheque to: E. W. Crellin amount $2175 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to John Y. Beach RE: Asks if he would be interested in helping to prepare a paper on electron diffraction for a symposium at the Indianapolis Meeting. LP will not be able to attend the meeting but asks that he present the paper in Indianapolis. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #27.1, file: (Beach, John Y.)]
• Letter from Ralph Reinhold to W. A. Noyes RE: Reinhold discusses the cost of bindings with Noyes along with other matters concerning publications. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, box #279.3]

• AHP writes cheque to: Lena Weinbaum amount $50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from T. J. Webb to LP RE: Asks LP for reprints of his article on Hemoglobin. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]

• AHP writes cheque to: Mrs. Robert Dery amount $25 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: California Institute of Technology amount $12 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Note from Lawrence Brockway to LP RE: the situation at Ann Arbor still looks promising; Midgley has promised to help in financing of equipment and to find someone with a PhD to help full-time as an assistant. He is headed to Europe soon and hopes to find time to sightsee and travel as well as learn of new scientific studies. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31.11, file: (Brockway, Lawrence O.)]
• Research Notebooks of LP, RNB 15 RE: Duodecisilicic acid [calculations by LP and Herbert Sargent, Jr.] [Filed under LP Research Notebooks: Research Notebook 15: 057-058]

• Letter from LP to Dr. Fred Fairbrother RE: Discusses his work on the approximation of a wave summation function of a molecule by mean os an ionic part and a covalent part. [Filed under: F: Correspondence, Box #128.3]
• Letter from LP to Mrs. Dickinson RE: Thanks Mrs. Dickinson for the check she sent with her last letter. He is happy to hear that she is heading to Colombia to be with Neil. LP is happy to report that he has a new baby boy, now three months old. [Mrs. Dickinson's last note: September 2, 1937] [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.2]
• Letter from Simon H. Bauer to LP RE: tells of his recommendation for a research appointment at Pennsylvania State College. With the uncertainty of the upcoming year he will be applying for the appointment and asks LP to fill out some paper work. [LP's reply: September 16, 1937] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #24.4, file: (Bauer, Simon H.)]

• Letter from C. R. Noller to LP RE: Noller asks why resonance would give rise to color and asks if anything has been published about this subject. [Filed under: N: Correspondence, Box #287.4]
• Photo: Linus Pauling and J. Ketelaar standing in front of a building. "September 14, 1937 / L. Pauling J A A Ketelaar" Photographer unknown. Black and white print. [Ship #1550] [LP Photo Box, 1937i.15]

• Letter from Dr. J. H. de Boer to LP RE: Sends LP a zirconium metal foil which LP had requested however is unable to send hafnium foil. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.4, file: 1937]
• Letter from L. A. Kimpton to LP RE: Thanks LP for his kind letter of September 8. Expresses his delight to have Dr. Coryell visit Deep Springs on his return trip to Berkeley and looks forward seeing LP in Pasadena on the 20th. [Filed under D: Correspondence, 1936-1959, Box #98.2]

• Letter from Grace Kidney, Mack Printing Company, to L. O. Brockway RE: asks that the copy of "The Molecular Structures of Boron Trimethyl, Trifluoride, Trichloride, and Tribromide. The Covalent Bond Theory"which he received please be routed to LP. There was a mistake when getting mailed. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31.11, file: (Brockway, Lawrence O.)]
• Letter from LP to Simon H. Bauer RE: he has sent the recommendation and paper work for his job appointment at Pennsylvania State College. [Bauer's letter September 13, 1937] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box 24.4, file: (Bauer, Simon H.)]

• AHP writes cheque to: Liebergs Inc., amount $28.81 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• AHP writes cheque to: Nellie Durby amount $1.60 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society to LP RE: Requests that LP prepare a review of the book entitled Einfhrung in Die Quantenchemie by Dr. Hans Hellmann. [LP's reply to Lamb September 21, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 3]
• Letter from LP to Dr. T. J. Webb RE: LP will be sending reprints of his article on hemoglobin separately. Explains that he and AHP will be at Cornell during the next four months and he hopes that they will get to see each other during this time. [Filed under: W: Correspondence, Box #443.5]
• Letter from LP to Lawrence Brockway. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31.11, file: (Brockway, Lawrence O.)]

  September 17, 1937

  Dr. L. O. Brockway

  c/o Dyson Perrins Laboratory

  Oxford

  England

  Dear Lawrence:

  I was glad to receive your two letters. Your keys brought a return of $2.50 and your phone bill was only a dollar and a quarter, and so at present I am $1.10 to the good. In case that there is anything that I can do for you to the extent of $1.10 let me know any time from now on.

  Your paper with Levy on the bromomethanes has appeared, but the proof has not yet come for the boron paper. It may well be here in a few days, permitting the paper to appear in the October Journal. Levy has prepared some suitable notes to add in proof. The electron diffraction work is going along well. Ketelaar and Palmer have written their paper on NOCl and NOBr, both of which show halogen-nitrogen distances 0.3 Å larger than the single bond covalent distance. They have also written a page note on the aliphatic dihalides, stating that the halogen-halogen distances are too variable to show up in the photographs. Schomacher has a satisfactory structure for P₃N₃Cl₆ and Ketelaar is working on P₄N₄Cl₈. These substances he brought with him. He left for Holland two days ago, having done while here not only a large amount of electron diffraction cork but also a small theoretical problem with Jack.

  I have not done anything more on acetone, but have been working with Schomacher on the heterocyclic paper, which I hope will be ready before I leave ten days from now.

  I am glad that Moc [sic] have you such good advice about how to spend your time in Europe. I too think that you should remember that it may be a long time before you have another opportunity to see Europe, and that you should get as much out of your trip as possible, You should, of course, learn as much scientifically as you can, but you mustn't forget that it is important to get acquainted with people and that you will have plenty of tine to do experimental work after you return to the United States,

  My wife and children are all well, although life has become rather strenuous as we get ready to leave for Cornell, the children staying behind in Pasadena. I think that my wife will stay for a month or six weeks in Cornell and then return.

  I want to tell you again how much I have enjoyed having you in the laboratory during the last seven years. I don't need to say anything about how profitable your work has been.

  With best regards to you and to Mrs. Brockway, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

• Letter from LP to Mr. A. W. Gauger RE: Encloses a copy of the letter of recommendation for Dr. Bauer. [Filed under: G: Correspondence, Box #140.2]
• Letter from Secretary, American Chemical Society, to Lind, LP, Clark and Fieser RE: Informs the Board that the Council of the American Chemical Society has reelected them associate editors of Scientific Monographs for a three-year term. [Filed under: N: Individual Correspondence, Box #279.3]

• LP writes cheque to: Albert H. Warren amount $14.42 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• LP writes cheque to: Hjalmar Johnson amount $24.16 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from Alex R. Todd to LP RE: Todd plans to arrive in Pasadena around February 1st. Todd suggests that his lectures will be on his work with biological substances such as the B vitamins. [LP's letter: August 13, 1937] [Filed under: T: Individual Correspondence, Box #407.6]
• Letter from Gerald Wendt to LP RE: Assures LP that Latimer will be considered for the Editorial Board at a later time. Explains that he will be carrying on as editor through 1938 when he plans to nominate Noyes as successor in which case a vacancy will open up. [Filed under C: Organizational Correspondence: Box #70.5, file: Chemical Reviews]
• Letter from LP to Dr. Charles D. Coryell RE: LP tells Coryell that Dean Kimpton will like it very much for him to come to Deep Springs and stay for a week. Kimpton plans to offer Coryell $50 honorarium and in return would like him to speak on a topic of general interest. [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence: Box #68.2, file: (Coryell, Charles D. 1928-1970)]
• Letter from LP to Dr. G. W. King RE: LP is glad to learn of his work and reports that it seems possible to him that the extra energy of graphite is not all resonance energy but in part van der Walls energy between sheets. [Filed under: K: Correspondence, Box #200.2]

• Letter from LP to Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, Journal of the American Chemical Society RE: LP is happy to review Hans Hellmann's book for the Journal and requests that they forward him a copy at Cornell. [Lamb's letter to LP September 17, 1937] [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 3]
• Returned cheque charge of $0.50 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]

• AHP writes cheque to: Sanders Home Service Co., amount $21 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, C. I. T. RE: LP requests that the Council honor requisitions from the Rockefeller Fund and Molecule-Structure Fund signed by J. H. Sturdivant until Feb. 1, 1938. [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Edward and Mrs. Crellin. [Filed under C: Individual Correspondence: Box #68.10]

  September 22, 1937

  Dear Mr. and Mrs. Crellin:

  I am very sorry that my wife and I are now so busy with preparations for our departure on Monday that we shall not be able to come again to visit you at Redondo. I find many tasks to be completed before I leave.

  The revised drawing of the bronze tablet for the Crellin Laboratory is now ready. I shall leave it at your home on San Pasqual Street. Would you please examine it carefully, to see whether or not it is completely satisfactory to both of you (and also to Miss Hutchison), and then return it with your comments to Professor Beckman?

  With very best regards, I am

  Sincerely yours,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:mrl

• Letter from LP to the Executive Council of C. I. T. RE: On the behalf of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, LP requests that H. J. Lucas be reimbursed $84.15 spent in hiring an outside stenographer to type his manuscript for publication because the Division stenographer was unavailable. [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]

• AHP writes cheque to: Prudential Life Insurance Co., amount $10 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.014, Folder #1]
• Letter from LP to Charles L. Parsons RE: asks that his seven copies of his nomination of Brockway for the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry be given to the committee. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31.11, File: (Brockway, Lawrence O.)]
• Letter from LP to E. C. Barrett, C. I. T. RE: LP notifies the Council that Mr and Mrs. E. W. Crellin have offered to make C. I. T. the additional gift of $5000 to be used to supplement the funds which would be needed for the minimum floor covering to an extent permitting linoleum or acid-proof floor covering to be laid throughout the building. [LP Science Box 14.038, Folder 2]
• Letter from LP to Mr. McConnell. [Filed under: M: Correspondence, Box #255.4]

  Sept. 27, 1937

  To: Mr. McConnell

  From: Linus Pauling

  Subject: Janitor for Gates or Crellin Laboratory

  Professor Lucas and I have interviewed Mr. F[r]ederick D. Spooner (with whom Mr. Nash also is acquainted), and we would like to recommend him to you as janitor for either Gates or the new Crellin Laboratory, in case that you consider him suitable.

  Yours truly,

  Linus Pauling

  LP:mrl

• Letter from LP to Professor N. V. Sidgwick, Oxford University, RE: asks him to write a supporting letter of his nomination of Dr. L. O. Brockway for the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31.11 file: (Brockway, Lawrence O.)]
• Letter from LP to The American Chemical Society Award Committee. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #31.11, file: (Brockway, Lawrence O.)]

  California Institute of Technology Pasadena

  Gates and Crellin Laboratories of Chemistry Sept. 27, 1937

  The American Chemical Society Award Committee

  Gentlemen:

  I recommend Dr. Lawrence Olin Brockway for the American Chemical Society Award in Pure Chemistry for 1938.

  Dr. Brockway was born in Topeka, Kansas, on September 23, 1907, and is accordingly eligible for this Award for 1938 but not for succeeding years. He received the degrees of Bachelor of Science in 1929 and Master of Science in 1930 from the University of Nebraska, and of Doctor of Philosophy in 1933 from the California Institute of Technology. He served as Assistant and Teaching Fellow at the California Institute from 1930 to 1933, as Research Fellow from 1933 to 1935, and as Senior Fellow in Research from 1935 to 1937. He was granted a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 1937-8, and is at present working at the Dyson-Perrins Laboratory at Oxford University.

  At the time that Brockway came to study at the California Institute (1930) the method of determining the structure of gas molecules by the diffraction of electron waves had just been discovered by Mark and Wierl. Brockway chose this field for his research, and began the design and construction of an electron diffraction apparatus. Despite the difficulties involved, he succeeded while still a graduate student in obtaining satisfactory electron diffraction photographs and in using them in the determination of the molecular structures of several interesting substances (see 2, 3, 4, 5 in the attached list of publications). He also carried out two successful investigations of the structure of crystals by x-ray methods (1, 6). After his appointment as Research Fellow he constructed a second electron diffraction apparatus of improved design. By use of this apparatus and with the aid of refined methods of interpretation of the photographs (9, 13) he and his collaborators have determined the structures of ninety-five inorganic and organic molecules (see list of publications) with an accuracy usually of about one percent in interatomic distances and a few degrees in bond angles. (This is over one-half of the total of about one hundred eighty molecules studied so far by all workers in the field.) The results have been very valuable in connection with the general problem of the correlation of molecular structure and the physical and chemical properties of substances (4, 15, 22, 23, 27).

  The success of Brockway's electron diffraction work has been recognized by students and investigators who have come from abroad to do work in this field at the California Institute, including Dr. L. E. Sutton, Rockefeller Fellow from Oxford (1935-4), who now is carrying on similar work at Oxford Dr. H. O. Jenkins, Commonwealth Fellow from Oxford (1934-6); Drs. G. C. Hampson and H. D. Springall, Commonwealth Fellows from Oxford (1936-7); Dr. Charles Degard, C. R. B. Fellow from Liege (1936-7); and Dr. J. A. A. Ketelaar, Lecturer on Crystallography at the University of Leyden (Summer, 1937). From 1933 to 1937 Dr. Brockway was also assisted by five graduate students carrying on work for the doctorate under his direction. One of these, Dr. J. Y. Beach, was appointed National Research Fellow in 1936, and has constructed at Princeton University a duplicate of Brockway's apparatus.

  On the experimental side Dr. Brockway is the most able, prolific, energetic, and promising young man with whom I have ever been associated. He also has unusual ability and training along theoretical lines (although in this field he is not comparable to Dr. E. Bright Wilson, Jr., whose theoretical ability is prodigious). Brockway has great interest in and enthusiasm for the field of structural chemistry, and I am confident that he will continue his important contributions and be a leader in research. I know of no man of his age whose research output during the last few years exceeds Brockway's or who has made a more important contribution to pure chemistry.

  Respectfully yours,

  Linus Pauling.

  LP:mrl

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