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Caption: Booklet - Addresses from Inauguration of Noyes
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21 dispensable in the industries and \ t is provided in such comparaiiv«*l\ limited quantity in nature that there is almost a dearth of it in the world's market to-day. It would be interesting, indeed, it" w should come to depend for our india rubber supply upon the cornfields of Illinois, the prairies of the Mississippi basin and the manufacturing laboratories, rather than, in the past and now, upon the jungles of Africa and South America. Yet the production of india rubber from corn starch would be no more remarkable than the production of alizarine and indigo from coal tar. The research laboratory is the source from which artificial alizarine and artificial indigo sprang; the same source may be the starting point of the production of india rubber from indian corn. r "What may w e expect from the recent announcement of Professor Ramsay that under the influence of the radium emanation copper may be broken down with the production of potassium, lithium and calcium, thus suggesting a new source for potassium compounds, so useful to farm crops ? Other products and questions a\ lit Hi magic touch of the research chemist. "Who for instance, will take care of and utilize the comparatively large quantities ol* selenium and tellurium, thus far so little Studied arid now so largely issuing as a by-producl of the manufacture of vitriol and the refining of QOpper? Mere is abundant supply of raw material |o be had from the industry by the research chemist, for the ashing. Atfain, who will supply the volatil C Qbustihle required to mak up the <
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