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Entered as second class matter, September 17, 1918, at the post office at Washington, D. C., under the act of March 3, 1879.

Publication of signed articles in this journal is not to be understood as an adoption by the Patent Office Society of the views expressed therein. The editors are glad to have pertinent articles submitted.

VOL. VIII.

October, 1925.

No. 2.

COMMENT.

The Superintendent of the War Department has held a hearing to consider the question of urging Congress to authorize the widening of F and G streets adjacent the Patent Office. The changes would involve merely the sacrifice of some of the grounds on G street but on the south side it would be necessary to remove the portico and steps at the main entrance and provide a doorway on the lower floor instead. So far as the work of the Office is concerned, no great inconvenience would result, but the removal of this beautiful portico with its double

row of Doric columns would necessarily be a severe blow from an architectural standpoint. However the increas-. ing traffic congestion at this point may compel the adoption of the plan.

CHEMICAL PATENTS.

The Chemical Foundation, Inc. of 85 Beaver St., New York, has published a list of patents owned by it and available for license to all American manufacturers. The list is arranged in accordance with the Patent Office classification of the patents and is prefaced by an alphabetical index of the various classes involved.

MODELS.

The distribution of the models owned by the Patent Office is now in progress and all those who are interested in obtaining any of them are urged to promptly put in an application therefor. In all cases the name of the inventor and the date and number of the patent should be given.

Applications have already been received for several thousand models. These requests came from inventors, their heirs and assigns, manufacturers interested in having a historical record of their products, and museums and other public institutions.

WILLARD N. HOLMES.

W. N. Holmes was born at Hastings Center, Oswego Co., New York, N. Y., and prepared for entrance to the Classical Course of Syracuse University in the public

schools of Central Square, New York. Graduating from that University in 1885, he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, although the last two years of the course were devoted mainly to Scientific Studies. After graduation he decided to make Chemistry his life study and accordingly studied that subject under F. W. Traphagen, Ph.D., FC.S., and later took courses in Quantitative Analysis at the School of Mines at Columbia University. In 1888 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Syracuse University.

Mr. Holmes taught courses in Chemistry and directed the work of chemical laboratories successively at the Staunton (Va.) Military Academy, at Pritchett College, Glasgow, Mo., and at the College of Liberal Arts of the University of Chattanooga at Athens, Tenn. While at Staunton, he served as chemist for the Staunton Tannic acid plant, and while at Athens, for the Southard Tannic acid plant at Tellico Plains, Tenn. In addition he practiced as a general analytical chemist. He has held membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the American Leather Chemists Association and in the American Chemical Society.

Entering the Patent Office in May 1904 as Fourth Assistant Examiner, he resigned in 1905 to resume his former position in the University of Chattanooga. However, during the summer vacations of 1906 and 07, he returned to the Office as Assistant Examiner. In 1908 he decided to devote himself entirely to the work of an examiner. Since July of that year, he has been continuously a member of Division 31 (Industrial Chemistry). Here he was promoted successively through the grades attaining that of Examiner in charge of the division in June 1921. Before assignment to Division 31, he served successively in Divisions 9, 39, 41 and 20, examining applications in classes 137, 169, 182, 152 and 16; in Division 31, he examined applications in classes 87, 48, 203 and 196. At the annual commencement of Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Ga., in May 1925, the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon him.