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This article, commenting on the Rothschild and Dainton reports, is by Mr William McCall, general secretary of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants.
Dr Barrett examines the likely development of the chemical industry during this decade. Any assessment of current and likely future trends must take into account the fact that the industry is not a unified whole; it comprises several principal sectors, each operating in a distinct manner. But the industry's most outstanding feature has, nevertheless, been dynamic growth.
On January 1, 1972, some forty-two thousand chemists will become fellows of the Chemical Society which, although retaining its old charter, will assume a new role, uniting the membership of the old Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry.