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OCR Page 1 of 3Dr. S.C. Lind,
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Dear Dr. Lind:
You will probably be interested and somewhet shocked to
learn that our good fruend, Barker, is now in Memorial Hospital,
New York City, in rather a critical condition. As a matter of
fact, he does not realize the seriousness of his ailment and would
be terribly upset if he knew I were writing you this, but the fact
remains that in all prohability he will never be able to resumo
his duties with the Corporation. He roally started to ail about
last August or Septenber, but paid very little attention to the
pain in his right chest until the first of the year. Ho has gone
through all the stagos of diagnosis, and of oourse 80 fur as he is
concerned, he has been told that they have been unable to find what
the matter is. Confidentially, the condition is ono of cancer
of
the right lung, with a brain involvement.
We are all brokcon up hore and of course will niss Howard a
great deal since he has been an important part of our organization
for a great many years. It will not be a simple matter to replace
him, but that is a question which now we face, and I wonder if
you
have in mind any young men who might be qualified to sorve us in
the capacity of both physicist and chomist.
The chief duties would be to put radium in solution and make
up luminous compounds. There would be a limited amount of determination
of radio-activity, and there would be considerable work on making
brightness measurements on luminous material. He would also
do
cone
siderable experimental work on adhesives and some on zine sulphide,
and give some assistance to our general production manager in the ape
plication department.
It is not so easy to find a chomist femiliar with radium, but
probably you have in mind some bright young fellow who has had at
least some experience. Nost of the work, anyway, is such that he
would have to break in on it here. As you lmow, wo rofine or recover
no radium whatevor hore, but only male the solutions for use in the
luminous material.
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