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IN commemoration of the twenty-first anniversary of Sir William Ramsay's election to the chair of chemistry in University College, London, the professors of the college entertained him to dinner on March 18. Tire Provost, Dr. T. Gregory Foster, was in the chair, and covers were laid for eighty persons. The guests included Lord Rayleigh, Lord Reay, Sir Norman Lockyer, Sir Alexander Kennedy, the Master of the Temple, the Masters of the Worshipful Companies of Drapers, Mercers, and Carpenters, the president of the Society of Chemical Industry, the Clerk of the Fishmongers' Company, Prof. H. B. Dixon, Prof. A. Smithells, Prof. J. M. Thomson, Prof. Meldola, Mr T. Harrison Townsend, Mr. Henry Higgs, Mr. M. Carteighe, Dr. E. M. Borrago, Dr. F. Clowes, and Colonel Wolseley Cox.
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Commemorative Dinner to Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S. . Nature 77, 500 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077500a0
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