Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-01-07 | Page 9 | Belgian Scientist Thanks U. S. Aid for Saving Life after World War

- - Professor From Quebec University Tours Salt Lake City H- fl "I 1 MwasjstawaMssM 1 iiiwt'immsswwiw WirimmM jLttsiwmsMWs. VISITING MINERALOGIST FINDS UTAH GEOLOGIC SAMPLES ENLIGHTENING Dr. J. D. II. Donnay hears facts on Utah from Arthur L. Crawford, left; Miss Mildred J. Berryman j Belqian Scientist Thanks U.S. Aid For Saving Life After World War An internationally renowned Belgian scientist Tuesday in Salt Lake City expressed his gratitude to the United States for being alive . . . and then voiced hope for the reconstruction of Europe after the present war. Dr. J. D. H. Donnay, professor of mineralogy at Laval Universite of Geology and Mineralogy, Que- bee, I Canada, said he is "alive today only tiecau.se I was fed duriag the World war by the American relief commission along with thousands of other Belgians." Here under sponsorship of the Mineralogical Society of Utah, Dr. Donnay gave a technical, illustrated il-lustrated lecture on "The Causes of Interference Figures in Convergent Con-vergent Light" Tuesday forenoon to advanced University of Utah mineralogical and other physical science students, and is to lecture to sponsoring society members at 8 p. m. in the physical science buil ing on the university campus. cam-pus. Short, bespectacled and talking withla slight accent, -the 38-year-old Scientist told of the search herel and in Canada for new deposits de-posits of strategic minerals. He predicted large stocks of metals will be on hand at the end of the present war "whenever that is" but that much of it could be utilized in rebuilding war-torn Europe. Guest of Arthur L. Crawford, assistant professor of ore dressing and microscopy at the University of Utah, he will remain here for several days before returning to Quebec. Mr. Crawford and Miss Mildred J. Berryman, historian and photographer for the Mineralogical Min-eralogical Society of Utah, accompanied accom-panied him on a brief tour of the city.l