Report of the committee on chemistry of natural waters, 1938–39

Abstract

The membership of this Committee is as follows: C. S. Howard (Chairman), United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. I. A. Denison, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. W. P. Kelley, 119 Hilgard Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California A. C. Lane, 22 Arlington Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts C. S. Scofield, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. D. G. Thompson, United States Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. T. G. Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Studies on the corrosion of metals and soils have been continued at the National Bureau of Standards and a report of the recent findings was published under the title “Correlation of the electrolytic corrosion test with the active corrosiveness of soils,” by I. A. Denison and R. B. Darnielle [J. Res., Nation. Bur. Stan., No. 21, pp. 819‐830, December, 1938], Another paper on this subject by Kirk H. Logan was published under the title “Engineering significance of National Bureau of Standards soil corrosion data” [J. Res. Nation. Bur. Stan., pp. 109–125, January. 1939].