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JUBILEES are occasions of rejoicing and congratulation, but they provide us also with opportunities for taking stock both of our national resources and of the use we are making of them; so that when, after due examination and consideration, the celebrations are followed by renewed resolutions and by more fully informed and co-operative effort, they can fairly claim to have made a contribution of more than passing value to our national progress. Many organisations, national and sectional; political, ecclesiastical and industrial; philanthropic and learned societies, and indeed societies representing every phase of corporate life, will in 1935 be concerned to view with a critical eye their progress throughout the years of His Majesty's reign. In so far as they can show that their attempts to make the world a better place to live in have been honest, sensible and attended by a reasonable measure of success, they will receive a meed of applause; in so far as they discover how better to carry out the purposes for which they were brought into existence, they will equally merit the approval of sympathisers. The year 1935 is one in which chemical organisations in Great Britain will take decisions of exceptional significance. They have long been considering how they can more adequately serve their science and more effectively promote its application for the benefit and prosperity of the community. Proposals which are now under consideration have been put forward with that end in view. One of the organisations concerned, the Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, has recently published a brief survey of its work since its formation in 1916.
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Association of British Chemical Manufacturers. Nature 135, 782–783 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135782c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135782c0