American Research on Clays ¹

Abstract

A CONSIDERABLE amount of interesting work in connection with clays and the clay industries has been done in recent years in Germany and in America, and no one has worked more enthusiastically than Messrs. Ashley and Bleininger. In Germany, too, Drs. Rieke and Endell are doing really fine work. The untimely death of the writer of the first-named pamphlet—Mr. H. E. Ashley—was a sad loss which must have considerably retarded subsequent developments. The clay industries the world over owe the Bureau of Standards, etc., in the United States a debt of gratitude for having set aside such men as Messrs. Ashley and Bleininger to devote their whole time to this work, and the results must be a source of satisfaction to the authorities responsible for the innovation.