Activity Listings
- Letter from C. P. Meadowcroft to Dr. Albert Einstein, Chairman, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. Encloses a donation to the committee. LP Peace: Box 3.005, Folder 5.6
- Letter from David Pressman to Member of the Faculty of the Div. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering RE: States that it is time to nominate new members for the Caltech Chapter of Sigma Xi, and states nominated students should not be notified until they are elected. Encloses a summary of qualifications for membership and other materials. [Filed under LP Correspondence: #357.2]
- Letter from Dr. Felix Cunha to LP RE: Discusses how much he enjoyed a talk that LP gave, and hopes to come down and visit the labs in Pasadena. Mentions that he will be working at the Rockefeller Institute this summer. Also includes some articles of interest. [Letter from LP to Cunha February 26, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence Box: #74.15, file:(C: Correspondence, 1946)]
- Letter from E. W. Geidt, Secretary, XVII International Physiological Congress, to LP RE: Formally invites LP to the conference and requests he inform him as soon as possible if he will attend or not. [Letters from Hill to LP February 17, 1947, from LP to Geidt and Hill March 13, 1947] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #159.4, file:(Hill, A.V.)]
- Letter from Frank B. Jewett, President, to J.C. Green, Director, Department of Commerce. RE: Gives his personal views in regard to the free export of scientific and technical data. [Filed under LP Science: National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1951: Box #14.019 Folder #19.2]
- Letter from Fred E. Wright, Home Secretary, to Members of the Standing Committee on Meetings. RE: Attaches a revised statement on the NAS. Asks them to read it critically. [Filed under LP Science: National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1951: Box #14.019 Folder #19.2]
- Letter from LP to Dr. Edwin McMillan, Radiation Laboratory, UC Berkeley, RE: Requests some irradiated ethylene bromide for some immunochemistry work that Dr. Pressman is conducting. Comments that radiobromine he has obtained from the Clinton Labs is not satisfactory and he would prefer another source. Mentions the family plans for traveling to England this summer and next year. [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #245.6, file:(McMillan, Edwin)]
- Letter from LP to Prof. Arthur B. Lamb, Editor, JACS, RE: Sends comments on the manuscript by Kaufman, Fankuchen, and Mark entitled “An X-Ray Examination of Cyclooctatetraene.” Recommends that it not be published in its current form. Suggests the data be stated more clearly and succinctly and published as a note. [Letter from Lamb to LP February 11, 1947, undated memo from Corey to LP] [Filed under LP Correspondence: Box #191.1, file:(Journal of the American Chemical Society)]
- Letter from LP to W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., RE: Revisions to one page and for chapters six and seven. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b4.6.]
- Letter from W.H. Freeman, W.H. Freeman and Co., to Roger Hayward, RE: Freeman apologizes for waiting so long to draw up Hayward's contract, and says he will do it soon. [Filed under LP Manuscripts of Books, 1947b4.6.]
- Memorandum from J.H. Sturdivant to Professors W.H. Lacey and B.H. Sage, CC LP, RE: Sage has prepared estimates of budget requirements for the Division of Cheistry and Chemical Engineering for 1047-48. [Filed under LP Biographical, Academia; Box 1.021, Folder 21.3]
- Statement on the National Academy of Sciences. [Filed under LP Science: National Academy of Sciences, 1945-1951: Box #14.019 Folder #19.2]
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February
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