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    "ocrText": "UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI\nCOLUMBIA\nRECEIVED\nDEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY\nJUN 18 1928\nJune 15, 1928\nMr. H. H. Barker\nUnited States Radium Corporation\n535 Pearl Street\nNew York, N. Y.\nMy Dear Barker:\nIn reply to your letter of une 8 advising that\nDr. Flinn desires to continue some experiments in regard to the\nsensitiveness of electroscopic determinations on human beings,\ntoo\nlet me say that I am sorry that I cannot get away at once for\nI am quite interested in completing these experiments. My plans\nfor the months of June and July, however, will not permit me to\nleave Columbia for a fortnight or three weeks. After the first\nweek in August I shall be free until about the tenth of September.\nThis period of course, comes just about the time that Dr. Flinn\nis planning to take his vacation, so that as I said at the begin-\nning, I am sorry that I cannot get away for two or three weeks\nright now. The best that I can do in the way of dates is to say\nthat I can come on to New York at anyetime after August fourth,\nand I will leave it to Dr. Flinn to fix the date at which he\nwould like to continue these experiments. I am sorry that I\ncan not offer him a wider range in the way of dates.\nIn the meantime we may be able to try a few\nexperiments to determine the sensitiveness of the scintillation\nmethod for detecting radioactivity in living persons. I am\nrather inclined to think that the scintillation method will not\nbe any more sensitive and certain than the ordinary expired air\nmethod and we know pretty definitely how sensitive the expired\naid method has shown itself to be. I am inclined to think that\nafter our experiments continue we shall find the expired air\nmethod losing ground as a sensitive method of detection. But at\nthe present time we hardly have enough data to make definite\nstatements.\nLet us hope then that we can make plans to continue\nthese experiments with a view of obtaining some data which will be\nof value and which may be put in print.\nVery sincerely yours,\nHerman Schlundt\nHerman Schlundt\nP. S. Have any new developments taken place in the radium poison\ncases?\nHS/BB"
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