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PROF. R. ROBINSON in his presidential address to Section B (Chemistry) points out that the plant and animal pigments have excited the interest of chemists not only because of the intrinsic importance of these substances, for example, in the physiology of respiration, but also because the property of visible colour, more than any other, facilitates the experimental study of a compound. It happens that the study of colour in Nature has had the most important consequences often in totally unexpected directions.
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Summaries of Addresses of Presidents of Sections: Natural Colouring Matters. Nature 132, 395–396 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132395b0
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