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Letter from Linus Pauling to Clarence Zener. Page 1. March 20, 1936

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AHP writes cheque to: Violet Sardine amount $2.80 [Filed under LP Biographical: Box #4.013, Folder #2]
Letter from E. B Wilson to LP RE: Wilson explains that he will do his best to get his article in the April issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy however, it is their policy that they must have articles in no later than four weeks before the publication date. He asks LP to be sensitive to this the next time. [LP's letter: March 17, 1936] [Filed under: W: Individual Correspondence, Box #438.5]
Letter from E. J. Crane, Chairman, Chemical Abstracts to Edward Bartow, President, The American Chemical Society RE: Report on the proceedings of the Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling and Pronunciation. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
Letter from E. J. Crane, Chairman, Chemical Abstracts to the Committee on Nomenclature, Spelling and Pronunciation, The American Chemical Society RE: Request that the committee vote on the best name for the substance most commonly known as nitrocellulose. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
Letter from E. J. Crane, Chairman, Chemical Abstracts to the Nomenclature, Spelling and Pronunciation Committee, The American Chemical Society, LP RE: Enclosed is copy of annual report for perusal. [LP Science Box 14.002, Folder 2]
Letter from Joseph Hirschfelder to LP RE: Hopes that he will be able to obtain the funds necessary to carry through the research of diatomic molecules. Looks forward to seeing LP at the Washington meeting. [Filed under: H: Individual Correspondence, Box #159.8]
Letter from LP to Dr. Clarence Zener. [Filed under: Z: Individual Correspondence, Box #464.5]

March 20, 1936

Dr. Clarence Zener

Wayman Crow Hall of Physics

Washington University

St. Louis, Mo.

Dear Clarence:

I am glad to hear that there is a chance that you will get a still better job then your present one. If anyone from Seattle writes to me about you I shall support you very strongly. So far they haven't written. In case that you want me to send them a letter regarding you on my own initiative, or rather your initiative, let me know.

I was interested to see your work on the intensity of reflection or X-ray by anisotropic crystals. You will be interested to know that Dr. Helmholz has discovered the effect independently of you in silver phosphate. In silver phosphate the silver atoms are surrounded by four oxygen atoms at the corners of a very flat tetragonal bis- -noid. Helmholz found that the X-ray data could be accounted for only by assuming that the restoring force in the horizontal plane of the bis- -noid is about fifty per cent greater than that along the tetragonal axis. His paper is to appear soon in the Journal of Chemical Physics,

With best wishes, I am

Yours sincerely,

Linus Pauling

LP:mrl

Letter from LP to Dr. W. H. Rodebush RE: LP encloses a copy of the revised manuscript of the Third Law of Thermodynamics. Goes on to discuss the matters arguments surrounding this issue. [Filed under: R: Individual Correspondence, Box #335.6]

Letter from LP to Professor Harold C. Urey RE: Encloses a copy of a manuscript for LP to look over, and in case he wants to submit it to another referee without waiting for Rodebush's opinion. [Filed under: Urey, Harold: Reprints: Box #419.1]

Letter from Theodore Vermeulen to LP RE: Vermeulen asks LP to subscribe to the 1936 BIG T which is a detailed catalogue of undergraduate campus life. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #37.3, file (B: Correspondence 1936)]