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THE subject on which I propose to address you this evening has been brought under the notice of the Society of Arts on former occasions, and was only last year thoroughly treated of by Dr. W. H. Perkin, the pioneer of this branch of manufacture, in his Presidential Address to the Society of Chemical Industry. It has, moreover, quite recently furnished materials for a lecture at the Royal Institution by Sir Henry Roscoe, so that I feel in some measure obliged to apologise for again bringing forward a topic upon which it may appear to chemists that nothing particularly new remains to be said. Having, however, been intimately associated with this branch of chemical industry for many years, I have had exceptional opportunities of watching its development, and of forming ideas upon the causes of its progress, which may justify my engaging your attention upon the present occasion.
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The Scientific Development of the Coal-Tar Colour Industry 1 . Nature 34, 324–329 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034324b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/034324b0