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IN a recent letter (NATURE, April 18), I ventured to counsel chemists to go back to the land—to study Faraday. Since then, in the Times (May 16), I have urged that Faraday's great discovery of benzene, one hundred years ago, should henceforth be commemorated on June 16, the day on which it was communicated to the Royal Society of London. Surely we should make this a saint's day in our chemical calendar. The public has its Saint Lubbock's days, for the mere purpose of resting from its labours—in days when labour is beginning to be regarded as a work of supererogation. Why not a chemists' rest-day for the purpose of contemplation: to give emphasis to our recognition of the importance of Faraday's discovery and its astounding consequences: more particularly, as an outward and visible sign of our belief in the method we wield in our search for truth?
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ARMSTRONG, H. The Faraday Benzene Centenary. Nature 115, 870 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115870b0
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