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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY October 20th, 1931. Mr. H. H. Barker United States Radium Corporation 535 Pearl Street New York City My dear Barker: I hope that you are having some measure of success in running down for us some old tubes in which radium was sealed. Our supply of polonium is getting very low and we are in dire need of keeping up this stock for use in an experiment on alpha rays which is being conducted under the direction of the Dean of our Graduate School and our Department, work- ing jointly. With very good wishes, I remain, Sincerely yours, Herman Schlundt Herman Schlundt. P. S. I have just had a sample from some ore reported to have come from Arizona. It was reported to us as a wonderful source of radium. In many respects it resembles the sample of black ore which came to us about a year ago from Oregon. Testing this qualitatively, we find it to be entirely inactive. hs.as OCT 23 193)