Belgian Congo

Thread blight (Pellicularia koleroga Cooke) attacks the crop in all the coffee areas of the world. It is serious in 36 of the 50-odd coffee countries, and is especially noticeable in moist places like parts of Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Belgian Congo, south India, and Colombia. It attacks all the coffees grown for commerce, but is especially destructive in varieties of Arabica. 

Ilya had an older brother, Alexander, who would become a chemist and make a career in the mining industry in the former Belgian Congo. He had a hobby that he developed very seriously ornithology. He even discovered a novel species of bird, to which his name was attributed. After his return to Belgium, he was elected member of the Academie Royale des Sciences d Outremer (the Academy of African sciences). 

Plutonium is the only transuranium element which has been found in nature. Until its properties were known it would have been impossible to detect it in the minute amounts in which it occurs, but when its behavior was understood, Seaborg and his co-workers were able to find it in pitchblende, monazite ores, and carnotite in concentrations of about one part in 1014 (63, 73, 76). Peppard and his group found it in somewhat greater amounts in pitchblende from the Belgian Congo (77). Seaborg believes that most of this plutonium arises by fission of the uranium in the ore, though other processes may also be involved (77, 78). 

Gabon, Belgian Congo. 6. Murfreesboro, U.S.A. 11. Reims, Provence, France. 12. Brokoponda, Surinam. 17. 

Fig. 6. Chromatogram of 24-hr urine specimen (sample 1 ml 135 ml/24 hr) of a colored child, 4 years old (Belgian Congo), suffering from kwashiorkor (D25). The following features are to be noted there is a considerable excretion of taurine and of (5-aminoisobutyric acid.

President and Mrs. Hoover met this pale-faced woman at the front door of the White House and after an informal family dinner she was escorted to the National Academy of Sciences. Here the President of the United States presented her with a silver-encased draft for fifty thousand dollars, with which to purchase a gram of radium in Belgium. Since the discovery, in 1921, of rich radium ore deposits in upper Katanga of the Belgian Congo, Belgium had cut the price of radium in half. Otherwise she would have again received American-produced radium. 

Annales de Gembloux, quarterly, 1895. Some information concerning sugar industry and details of industry in Belgian Congo. 

For Belgium and Belgian Congo. Has export and import figures. Office primarily concerned with cultural affairs and maintains library chiefly on cultural subjects. 

In the February 5th, 1998 issue of Nature, David Ho and co-workers reported an analysis of what purports to be the oldest sample of HIV. This was isolated from a tissue sample taken from a Bantu adult male who died in 1959, in the city of Leopoldville (now Kinshasa), which was then in the Belgian Congo. The DNA sequences of various gene fragments were shown to be very close to those of ancient HIV subtypes, especially to the D sub-types. The rate of evolution of HIV from its putative ancestral progenitor has... 

Allosecurinine was first isolated by Satoda and co-workers as a minor alkaloid from S. sujfruticosa grown in Japan (14). Somewhat later it was also obtained from the roots (37) and leaves (38) of the same species grown in India and from PJiyllanihus discoides cultivated in Nigeria (39) and native to the Belgian Congo (16). The Indian workers point out that allosecurinine may be present as a salt in the leaves of... 

Uraninite, or pitchblende as it is more commonly known, is the form in which uranium was first discovered, at Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia. Later, very rich deposits of massive uraninite were discovered at the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and were the principal source of uranium for the Manhattan Project. Leaner ores containing finely divided... 

Beads of copper have been found on the sites of native camp fires in the Belgian Congo. These resulted from reduction of surface ores on which the fires had been laid. History repeats itself. 

Prior to World War II some 70 per cent of the world s tin ore came from S.E. Asia, including Malaya, Dutch East Indies and China. Other sources are Australia, Tasmania, Nigeria, the Belgian Congo and Bolivia. 

Mineral Cinch Lake Jahala Lake Beaverlodge Lake Great Bear Lake Eagle Mine Belgian Congo... 

KER] Kerr, P. F., Cattierite and vaesite new Co-Ni minerals from the Belgian Congo, Am. Mineral, 30, (1945), 483-497. Cited on pages 163,270. 

The first report of the use of Tabemanthe iboga, or eboka, was iii 1864, and there were other reports of its use in Gabon and the Belgian Congo as a stimulant and... 

Germany had access to the world s only heavy-water factory and to thousands of tons of uranium ore in Belgium and the Belgian Congo. It had chemical plants second to none and competent physicists, chemists and en-... 

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