p. 11 | Cornell’s Rare Earth Collection

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 13, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 11.

Cornell’s Rare Earth Collection

“THE laboratory at Cornell has the investigation of the ‘rare earths’ quite to itself in America. Yet it is doubtful if it is anywhere known what a mass of these costly elements has been accumulated at that institution. A recent inventory disclosed that of didymium, which sells for $7.00 an ounce; Cornell has 300 ounces; of cerium, quoted at $6.00 an ounce, 400 ounces; of lanthanum, worth $35 an ounce, 30 ounces; and considerable quantities of yet rarer ‘rare earths’ which can not be obtained upon the market at all.”