Letters Received to H.H. Barker, June 15, 1928

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA RECEIVED DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY JUN 18 1928 June 15, 1928 to FL . Mr. H. H. Barker DADUTA United States Radium Corporation 535 Pearl Street New York, N. Y. My Dear Barker: In reply to your letter of une 8 advising that Dr. Flinn desires to continue some experiments in regard to the sensitiveness of electroscopic determinations on human beings, too let me say that I am sorry that I cannot get away at once for I}am quite interested in completing these experiments. My plans for the months of June and July, however, will not permit me to leave Columbia for a fortnight or three weeks. After the first week in August I shall be free until about the tenth of September. This period of course, comes just about the time that Dr. Flinn is planning to take his vacation, so that as I said at the begin- ning, I am sorry that I cannot get away for two or three weeks right now. The best that I can do in the way of dates is to say that I can come on to New York at any time after August fourth, and I will leave it to Dr. Flinn to fix the date at which he would like to continue these experiments. I am sorry that I can not offer him a wider range in the way of dates. - In the meantime we may be able to try a few experiments to determine the sensitiveness of the scintillation method for detecting radioactivity in living persons. I am rather inclined to think that the scintillation method will not be any more sensitive and certain than the ordinary expired air method and we know pretty definitely how sensitive the expired aid method has shown itself to be. I am inclined to think that after our experiments continue we shall find the expired air method losing ground as a sensitive method of detection. But at the present time we hardly have enough data to make definite statements. Let us hope then that we can make plans to continue these experiments with a view of obtaining some data which will be of value and which may be put in print. Very sincerely yours, Herman Schlundt Herman Schlundt P. S. Have any new developments taken place in the radium poison cases? HS/BB