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GENTLEMEN,—In the midst of the excitement of the horrible War in which the two most scientific nations of the continent are now plunged, and in which even the Professors of Chemistry and their students take a humane part, let us endeavour to turn our thoughts into channels more congenial to the scientific inquirer, and allow me to recount to you, as far as I am able, the peaceful victories which, since our last meeting in Exeter, have been achieved in our special department of chemistry. And here may I remind you of the cosmopolitan character of science, of the fact that it is mainly to the brotherly intercourse of those interested in science, and in its applications to the arts and manufactures in different countries, that we must look as the small but living fire which in the end will surely serve to melt down national animosities, and to render impossible the breaking out of disasters so fatal to the welfare of humanity as that of which we are now unfortunately the spectators.
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Professor H. E. Roscoe's Opening Address to Section B. Nature 2, 406–408 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002406a0
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