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...umbrella maker, James Stokley is a jack of all sciences; puttered with chemistry and photography in boyhood, studied biology at the University of Pennsylvania, took an M.A. in psychology, taught general science in high school, wrote science articles for newspapers. In 1924 he met the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years ago, on a freighter...
Died. Dr. Edgar Henry Summerfield Bailey, 84, Kansas University's professor emeritus of chemistry; in Lawrence, Kans. Among his students, who called themselves "Bailey's Boys," were Elmer Verner Mc-Collum, vitamin authority, and the late Edwin Emery Slosson, director of Science Service...
Appointed. Watson Davis, 37, to be managing director of Science Service, organization which the late Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps subsidized to popularize science. The late Edward Emery Slosson managed Science Service from its founding in 1921 to his death in 1929. Mr. Davis had been editor of Science Service publications since the beginning. The service is bought by 100 periodicals; Science News Letter has 14.000 weekly subscribers...
When trees become crops, forest conservation will cease to be a problem. And in the February issue of Cellulose, a new trade magazine, the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service gives the answer of the Woodman who was asked to spare-that-tree. "Sure," says Woodman, "I can spare them all, for I can grow wood quicker in weeds and shrubs. Trees are not the only means of producing cellulose...
...Slosson predicted that crop trees, which grow at the rate of 10% per year for the first 15 years and at the rate of 4% as they approach maturity, will never be allowed to reach their full growth. When they are allowed to mature, only 50% of them is used at the sawmill. Sapling forests will be harvested-perhaps by Paul Bunyanesque mowing machines-and put through a process which will reduce their fibres to a mossy mat; then remolded, remade into wood, of any dimension, any hardness. This process is now being used in Mississippi to manufacture "Masonite" from...