The Leyden and Stockholm Papyri - University of Cincinnati

pyri. Here again the discovery of objects corresponding to the dyed
crystals would probably prove the most distinctive (37).
1.4 The Translator
THE LEYDEN & STOCKHOLM PAPYRI
In concluding this introduction, it may be of interest to the reader
to learn a little about the life and career of the author of these
English translations, Earle Radcliffe Caley. Born on 14 May 1900
in Cleveland, Ohio, Caley began his university training at the Case
Institute of Technology, but transferred after two years to Baldwin-
Wallace College, from which he received his B.S. degree in chemistry
in 1923. After teaching high school science for a year, he
began graduate work in analytical chemistry at Ohio State University
at Columbus, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1928 for work on
the analytical determination of the element sodium done under the
supervision of Professor Charles Foulk. From 1928 to 1942 Caley
served on the faculty of Princeton University and from 1942 to
1946 as an industrial chemist with the Wallace Laboratories of
New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1946 he returned once more to
Ohio State University as Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry,
where he remained until his retirement in 1970. He passed
away at his home in Columbus, Ohio, fourteen years later, in
February of 1984 at age 83 (38).
! Caley’s interest in the history of ancient chemistry and metallurgy
seems to have developed quite early since the translations
appearing in this volume were done while he was still a graduate
student at Ohio State and were undoubtedly a by-product of his
master’s thesis, The Metals and their Compounds in Ancient Times,
which he completed in 1925 (39). This interest was further reenforced
during his years at Princeton by a growing fascination with
the archeological applications of analytical chemistry, largely as a
result of having received the opportunity in 1937 to serve as a
chemist for the archeological staff then conducting excavations of
the ancient public Agora in Athens, Greece. Caley’s work on this
project soon revealed a correlation between the tin and lead content
of the many ancient bronze coins uncovered during the excavations
and their age and resulted in the publication in 1939 of his monograph,
The Composition of Ancient Greek Bronze Coins, for which
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