61. This, the only element so far revealed by a U. S. chemist, was named Illinium.* Nor may President Chase permit himself to forget that Professor Arthur Cutts Willard, investigating the ...

The recent tendency for such names has been after places—hafnium (1922) for Hafnia (Copenhagen), masurium (1924) for the Masurian Lakes, rhenium (1924) for the Rhine, illinium (1926) for Illinois.