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Press despatches to the above effect, last week, were exaggerations, but not essentially untrue. The key hyperbole was to describe as "one of the handsomest private yachts in the world" the prosaic German steamer Lutzow. Factually speaking the Lutzow had been chartered by German chemical interests allied with the famed "I. G."-Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindmtrie Aktiengesellschaft-for the purpose of holding a general nitrate pow wow and technical discussion of nitrate problems among the world's best chemical minds...
...Alfred Mond was aboard the Lutzow. So was Irénée du Pont, representing the world potent E. I. du Pont de Nemours chemical firm of Wilmington...
...Henry P. Bowditch '61, $4,000 in cash and certain books and instruments, in accordance with the terms of his will; the books and pamphlets from the library of the late Professor Charles Robert Sanger, from Mrs. Sanger, for the library of the Chemical Laboratory; and from Count Francis Lutzow, a complete set of his English writings