Letters Sent to Dr. Herman Schlundt, December 11, 1929

December 11th,1923. Dr. Herman Schlundt, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Dear Dr. Schlundt: Your letter of December 9th, enclosing copy of letter forwarded to Dr. Flinn, as well as clipping is at hand. I shall await with interest Dr. Flinn's reply to your letter dated December 9th. The picture às of one Mrs. Frances Hoare, who as far as we know has never been tested for the presence of radio-activity. Wo have felt that the newspaper publicity given to this case was a little far fetched, and based primarily upon the deduction that inasmich as she once worked at our plant and was now in failing health, that the cause must be attributed to radium poisoning. It is possible, however, that we do not have complete information with regard to the case. You have doubtless noticed during the past few days, thru the press, that Mrs. Quinta licDonald passed away on Saturday of last week. Dr. Norris, County Medical Examiner of New York, clained this case as a County case and the autopsy was preformed at the City Morgue by Dr. Martland, assisted by Dr. Norris. Our Committee felt rather slighted in that they were given little or no consideration with regard to this autopsy. There is even some question whether or not we will bo successful in procur- ing specimens of bone in this case. I discussed the matter with Dr. Ewing today, and he is going to put forth every effort to obtain specimens, and I am hopeful that he will succeed. The radium determinations in this case should prove very valuable in establishing the correctness of the constant which we have assigned to our gamia ray electroscope. If we find that these samples become aváilable we shall discuss with you the matter of analysis. According to the newspaper publicity Dr. Gettler is going to extract the radium, and as you will recall in the Maggia case, he found approximately 1/5 to 1/6 of the amount which we found. It, therefore, seems highly desirable that the results of Dr. Gettler and his associates be checked. In view of the fact that additional data will become avail- able should we obtain these specimens wäth regard to the five cases it might be well to withhold the publication of the article, which was propared by you early this summer until such tiple a.s this data could be incorporated. I am strongly of the opinion that this publication should not include Dr. Flinn as a co-author. Dr. Flinn superficially seems to be very friondly, but there is always an undercurrent of feeling present which makes ne con- fident that we should be rather guarded in discussing matters with him. In my conference with Dr. Ewing today, I outlined briefly