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AN Australian Chemical Institute has been formed with its headquarters in Sydney, and branches in every State of the Commonwealth. The provincial committees include the professors and other teachers of chemistry in the universities and most of the professional chemists in the several States. The institute has been framed on much the same lines as the Institute of Chemistry for Great Britain and Ireland. The objects set forth are:-(1) To raise the status and advance the interests of the profession of chemistry; (2) to promote the usefulness and efficiency of persons practising the same; (3) to afford facilities for the better education and examination of persons desirous of qualifying as technical analysts and chemical advisers; (4) to obtain power to grant legally recognised certificates of competency. Persons eligible for membership must possess certain qualifications, such as the degree of a recognised British university where they have studied chemistry for not fewer than three years, or an approved diploma in some branch of chemistry granted by an approved technical college or school of mines (no mention is made of the length of study required from such), or be fellows or associates of the Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland, or who have satisfied examiners appointed by the council that they have attained a necessary standard of chemical education; other pefSons may be admitted by the council without examination for special reasons on the recommendation of the committee of a branch.
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An Australian Chemical Institute. Nature 100, 93–94 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100093b0
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