Abstract
IN the address of the President of the British Association last year the report as to progress in one of the principal Sections, that of Chemistry, is certainly a very meagre one. It is indeed confined to a general statement of the value of materials derived from coal and coal-tars, &c., and cannot, strictly speaking, be termed chemical. Again, in the address of the President of the Chemical Section, the existence of such a branch or division of chemistry as that termed “organic,” and in which more perhaps has been done during the past twenty years than in mineral chemistry during the century, is completely ignored. And unfortunately the reason does not seem far to seek, for very few of the papers presented to the section had direct connection with the chemistry of carbon.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The Backward State of Chemistry in England . Nature 28, 613–614 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028613a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/028613a0