2571.     ---------------.  [PARKER, A.]  Coal, Science, and the Future.  Chem. and Ind., vol. 23, 1945, pp. 234-239.

        Paper read before the London Section, Society of the Chemical Industry.  Some remarks were made in connection with the competitive prospects of petroleum and coal and products derived from them.  The processes of synthesizing gasoline from coal either by catalytic hydrogenation or by way of the formation of H₂ and CO were discussed.  Some estimates also were made of the possibilities of underground gasification of coal.