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James Hopkins Smith Collection
The collection consists of journals, ships logs, copies of personal and official correspondence, a document signed by Woodrow Wilson, a scrapbook, and old photographs, particularly images of the yacht Nokomis and the warship Guinevere. The scrapbook contains a number of interesting items, such as orders to the fleet, a pamphlet on the use of gas masks, and official documents relating to Smith's military service as well as his duties in Paris with the Peace Commission. There is also the book, "The Golden Legend" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, printed in a single bound volume. The book was presented to James Hopkins Smith and Frances Goodnow Smith by Mary King Longfellow, Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr., and Lucia Wadsworth Longfellow Barrett, Dec. 2, 1924. The page preceding the title page bears the signature of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Nature's Building Blocks
John Emsley's Nature's Building Blocks was published in paperback in 2003. In this readable, informative, and fascinating guide to the elements are entries on each of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. Each entry comprises an explanation of where the element's name comes from, followed by Body element (the role it plays in living things), Element of history (how and when it was discovered), Economic element (what it is used for), Environmental element (where it occurs, how much), Chemical element (facts, figures, and narrative), and Element of surprise (an amazing, little-known fact). Since publication of the first edition there have been a num...
A Tale of Seven Elements
In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley established an elegant method for "counting" the elements based on atomic number, ranging them from hydrogen (#1) to uranium (#92). It soon became clear, however, that seven elements were mysteriously missing from the lineup--seven elements unknown to science. In his well researched and engaging narrative, Eric Scerri presents the intriguing stories of these seven elements--protactinium, hafnium, rhenium, technetium, francium, astatine and promethium. The book follows the historical order of discovery, roughly spanning the two world wars, beginning with the isolation of protactinium in 1917 and ending with that of promethium in 1945. For each element,...
