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IN the nineteenth Streatfeild Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Institute of Chemistry on November 20, Prof. John Read, of the University of St. Andrews, described a chapter in organic chemistry of extraordinary fascination. He showed how the discovery by Captain Cook of Australia opened a new field of research in the related sciences of botany and chemistry, which was soon appreciated by the early settlers in that continent.
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M., G. Chemistry of Essential Oils. Nature 139, 80 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139080a0
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