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regular income by furnishing customers in his paint & varnish line to McIlheney, but I was ready to send my check for $200 altho' I felt this was only temporary relief.
[[strikethrough]] Eveni [[/strikethrough]] Afternoon met William C. Potter, president of Guaranty Trust Co. to ask information about Dr. Colin Fink. Says he is allright as a scientist and technologist and is quite ingenious but lacks personality and spirit of organization altho he has no serious objection to him.
This evening Chandler Lecture and Medal award to Dr. Edgar F. Smith
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preceded by an informal dinner where professor of Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering were present. Dear old Chandler was there also.
Communicated to Pegram, Jackson and McKee result of my interview with W.C. Potter.
Professor Taggart communicated to me some very important work of one of his pupils with Germanium oxid which raises rapidly the amount of red blood corpuscles and seems to be destined to become an important cure of Anemia
March. 3. Here all day. Started packing my valises with idea of getting away to Florida at first opportunity. Need [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] very much a change of sur-