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FOR the first time in the history of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the annual general meeting was held this year outside London, the Birmingham and Midlands Section of the Institute having invited the Council to hold the anniversary meetings in Birmingham during April 15–17. An exhibition entitled '"The Chemist in the Midlands", which was opened by the president of the Institute, Dr. G. Roche Lynch, on April 15 at the Central Technical College, afforded a remarkable demonstration of the present-day activities of Ghemists in research, industrial production and the public services in the Midlands, and of the organisation and development of scientific and technical education and research in the area. The exhibition was open to the public during the following two days and special arrangements were made for visits, by parties of schoolchildren. Later the officers of the Institute received a civic welcome from the Deputy Mayor of Birmingham (Alderman A. F. Bradbeer). The general proceedings of the meeting included a lecture by Prof. R. P. Linstead on "The Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington", and a lecture by Prof. M. Stacey on "The New Fluorocarbon Chemistry". At the annual general meeting, two special resolutions, moved by the president, were passed: one authorizing the Council to submit to the Privy Council a petition for a new charter for the Institute; the other consenting to the raising, as from January 1, 1949, of the annual subscriptions of fellows and of associates. The following were elected officers for 1948-49 : President ; Dr. Gerald Roche Lynch ; Vice-Presidents : Prof. H. V. A. Briscoe, Prof. F. Challenger, Mr. G. E. Dodds, Prof. Alexander Findlay, Mr. E. T. Osborne, Mr. A. J. Prince ; Hon. Treasurer : Dr. D. W. Kent-Jones.
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Royal Institute of Chemistry : Anniversary Meeting. Nature 161, 716 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161716b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161716b0