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THE annual general meeting of the Royal Institute of Chemistry will be held during April 15–17 in Birmingham ; this is the first occasion since the Institute was founded that the meeting has been held in the provinces, and in honour of the occasion the Birmingham and Midlands Section has arranged a programme of scientific and social events. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham will give a civic welcome to the president (Mr. Roche Lynche). The programme includes an exhibition, “The Chemist in the Midlands”, to be held in the Central Technical College, Birmingham, which will feature the training of the chemist, research, production, and the chemist and the public services. The exhibition will be open to the public. Prof. R. P. Linstead will give a lecture on “The Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington”; and Prof. Maurice Stacey will speak on “The New Fluorocarbon Chemistry”. Visits have been arranged to the University of Birmingham and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Messrs. Chance Bros, glassworks at Smethwick, and Messrs. Marston, Thompson and Eversheds brewery at Burt-on-Trent.
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Royal Institute of Chemistry : Annual Meeting. Nature 161, 347 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161347d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161347d0