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A MEMORANDUM to which are attached the signatures of many of The leading chemists, pure and applied, of Great Britain, has recently been circulated. It is addressed, by members of bodies concerned with the interests of chemists and chemistry, to fellow-chemists, and it asks for increased collaboration between the respective bodies in the form of a federal body “to administer and guide, in accordance with the clearly-expressed will of its members, all the main activities that concern chemists as professional men and working scientists”. Whatever the body created for such a purpose, its chief functions would be related to : (1) publications for the exchange and dissemination of chemical knowledge ; (2) scientific meetings for the discussion of problems under investigation and for the survey of specific fields of' knowledge ; (3) libraries, both central and regional ; (4) qualification, directed to the maintenance of a high standard of professional competence and of such methods of registration as the profession may decide, whether this registration have de jure or only de facto recognition by Government ; (5) publicity, to ensure that the general public be accurately informed of what chemists and chemistry are doing and could do for the benefit of the community ; (6) social security, whereby the economic position and the legal interests of all chemists may be safeguarded ; (7) social functions.
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Chemists in Great Britain. Nature 151, 191–192 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151191e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/151191e0