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FIRST as assistant and, later, general secretary, Mr. Stanley Ernest Carr has been identified with the Chemical Society for forty-two years. Mr. Carr's life's work has been such that much of the Society's progress must be ascribed to his guiding influence during that long period. Of necessity, there have be frequent changes of honorary officers of a learned society, and it has to be left to the more permanent general secretary to preserve the continuity without which schemes for the advancement of the society and the science it represents would frequently fail or, at best, be only partly successful. The Chemical Society has been particularly fortunate in having Mr. Carr as general secretary for so long and during two periods of difficulty arising from emergencies when the importance of chemistry to the nation has had to be recognized. The history of the Chemical Society since the beginning of the present century is, indeed, almost an account of Mr. Carr's successful work for the Society and British chemistry. For example, on behalf of the Chemical Society, he has been intimately concerned with the introduction of the publication of the "Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry" (1904), the setting up of the Bureau of Chemical Abstracts (now, the Bureau of Chemical and Physiological Abstracts) and the setting up of the Chemical Council, so achieving co-operation with other societies and organizations concerned with chemical interests in Britain. Fellows of the Chemical Society owe a great debt to Mr. Carr both for his efficient work for the Society and for his courtesy and kindness at all times. They will wish him a peaceful retirement in which he will have happiness in the knowledge of the gratitude of those with whom he has worked.
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Chemical Society: Retirement of Mr. S. E. Carr. Nature 155, 539 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155539a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155539a0