ROMAN TEMPLES UNEARTHED IN GERMANY

Sixty Roman temples to ancient German gods.

Such is the astonishing spoil turned up out of the earth by the spades of archaeologists in the old German city of Trier on the Moselle. It is the most striking find of its kind ever made north of the Alps, the largest group of Roman religious edifices known outside of Italy. Much still remains to be uncovered, buried under the debris of centuries, but enough has already been laid open to the light to add a long and important chapter to our knowledge of the life of the Romans, Germans, and Gauls who thronged the streets of this 'second Rome' over a millennium and a half ago.

STUDY TESTS FOR AIR IN GASOLINE

When you stop at the filling station for five gallons of gas, are you getting all gasoline, or are you paying for part air?

The question of air dissolved in gasoline, and means of testing for its amount, was one of the problems to engage the attention of the twenty-second National Conference on Weights and Measures. It's this air in solution that makes the gas appear to boil when pumped into the glass chamber of the filling station pump, said Dr. Oscar C. Bridgeman, research associate at the Bureau of Standards for the Society of Automotive Engineers.

FLUORINE UNLOCKS CHEMICAL SECRETS

Fluorine, the gaseous chemical element heretofore isolated in only small quantities, has been produced electrolytically in thousand cubic feet quantities by Profs. Wilder D. Bancroft and Newton C. Jones of Cornell.

As a result, a new method of analyzing complex organic compounds will be developed. Determining just how some chemicals are put together has been difficult because dissociation with electric current, a fruitful method for some compounds, can not be used on solutions that don't react to electricity. Fluorine, however, reacts with almost any organic substance, whether electrolytically conducting or not, and it displaces that portion of the substance that would have appeared at the anode pole if the substance had been electrolyzed.

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