"I war rent to the .\licharl .\rullerj School (IX%), ;and tlwrv again I had the pr i~~i l rge oi lirtewnf to tho lertun, td ;t set 1 0 ,

most brillinnc proicssors.. . \\'. S. Il,;,tmrN (now nt Ch:cago) my senior by b+ ten years; be taught organic chemistry.. . . . . . Cantain Sanoinlkoff. a nunil of MendelCef and an authoritv in - ~ = . P~*I Cl;&ist&."

wrote the recent Bessemer Gold medalist. Colonel Nicolas Timothbe Belaiew. A student of the famous Russian metallur- gist, Professor D. K. Tschernoff of the Michael Artillery Acad- emy; of Professor Wiist of Aachen, and of the late Professor Henry Le Chatelier a t Paris, Colonel Belaiew received his train-

~ & n in St. ~ e t e r s b u ; ~ an June 26, 1 8 7 ~ ;f and into a &\- tinguished military family, N. T. Belaiew followed an equal1.v &tin uished military and scientific career. Recipient, a t the age ofthirty-two, of the coveted Michael Medal of the Michael

Avtillryy Academy, and, a t the age of fift nine, of the Bessemer Gold .Medal of the British Iron and stee~Phstitute, his name will dways stand foremost in the ranks of those'interested in crys- tallization of metals. and especially in the Widmanstaetten struc- ture.

The wide extent of Colonel Belaiew's research is evident from some one hundred publications dealing with such subjects as: thermoluminescence, weights and measures, .high power photo- micrography, origin and structure of meteorites, Damascene steel. inner structure of steels, Icelandic sagas, 'Vikings of the north, hio raphies oi Oemond, Tschernoff, Hen++ Marion Howe, Henry ~e&ntelier, and so forth. The Colonel is a t present Consulting Engineer br the Institut Soudiure AntogenC, Paris. Truly i t ma? b e s a d that n chemical training bnilds i full, well-balanced. ;an< frurttul Me. ,. .