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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
COLUMBIA
MAR 6 1980
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
March 4, 1929
Mr. H. H. Barker
United States Radium Corporation
535 Pearl Street
New York, New York
My dear Howard:
Instead of arriving home late Thursday, I spent
the week end making visits en route. First, I stopped at Lafayette-
Purdue University-where I talked to the Purdue Section of the Ameri-
can Chemical Society on Radium Poisoning. It was a called meeting,
but Moore and his boys gathered a fair sized audience in about an
hour. The next day I visited the plant of the Cornstalk Products
Company at Danville, Illinois, and then I surprised Esther at Urbana.
Walked into the Cafe where she and her room-mate were just starting
on their first course. By missing a train or two, I managed to
kill the rest of the time remaining in the week. Spent most of the
day yesterday sleeping. Feel quite fit this morning.
The samples of foeces and urine residues referred
to by Dr. Turner have come to hand except the last two. See my
notation on the bills enclosed. (Samples have just come)
I hope that you will get the Commission to en-
dorse the suggestion made by Dr. Failla, namely, that I proceed to
determine the radium content of the residues. I shall hold the resi-
dues until I receive word through you from the Commission.
You advanced me in all one hundred and twenty five
dollars, which I spent going and returning. I am enclosing bill to
cover this amount. I shall render no further bill for services for
I regard the tests made on Miss Freyer and Mrs. Hussman as my contri-
bution to the research project on Radium Detection and Estimation.
I expect to cover the rest of my expenses, and to make a few dollars
for service rendered Messrs. Edwards and Smith, and the United States
Public Health Service.
Will send you a report of findings on Miss Hollo-
way later, as well as a report on the tests we conducted in Hotel
Marseilles and at Newark City Hospital.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
COLUMBIA
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
* - 2 -
Mr. H. H. Barker.
I hope that Dr. Flinn will be interested in
calibrating the gamma ray electroscope soon. When he is through
with the ampoules, I would like to have the use of them in calibra-
ting the instrument we have here. The quartz fibers ordered have
not been delivered as yet.
We also need some values for the constants of
the two Emanation chambers #6 and #7. My value, based on Randall
pitchblende, is 9.3 X 10-9 curies per division per second.
Have plenty of work facing me this week. With
good wishes and regards to Mr. Lee.
Sincerely yours,
Herman Schlundt
Herman Schlundt.
Enclosures-
Bill. Hotel Marseilles
HS
Bet - Expense. service Rendered.
c
b
Have any of the five girls or others any "off spring
(Jude Underword) Ne children?
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