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THE Chemical Society is entitled to be congratulated on the whole programme of events arranged in celebration of its centenary during July 15–17. There were receptions and a programme of visits, and three excellent lectures besides the centenary address, all appropriate and all well arranged, and many of them displaying the same leading ideas that marked the opening ceremony and the centenary address. The first official function was indeed the opening of an exhibition illustrating one hundred years of British chemistry at the Science Museum, South Kensington, by the president of the Society, Prof. C. N. Hinshelwood, on July 14. The Minister of Education, who took the chair at the opening ceremony, emphasized not merely the vital place of the learned societies in the cultural and educational life of the community and the landmarks In the progress of chemical science to be seen in the exhibition, but like Prof. C. N. Hinshelwood, the dependence of such achievements upon men of independent, vigorous and original minds in the past.
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Centenary of the Chemical Society. Nature 160, 245–246 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160245a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160245a0