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THE seventy-fifth meeting of the German Association for the Advancement of Science and Medicine took place in brilliant weather in the picturesque town of Cassel. By Saturday evening, September 19, members and associates began to arrive, and on Sunday a large number of gaily coloured “rosettes “were visible in the streets. Advantage was taken of this gathering of men of science to present to Prof. Graebe, of Geneva, an address on the completion of the twenty-fifth year of occupancy of his chair of chemistry, and M. Moissan, of Paris, on behalf of the Chemical Society, conveyed to him the Lavoisier medal of the Institute of France. Prof. Graebe, who, in conjunction with Prof. Liebermann, of Berlin, achieved the first important chemical synthesis—that of artificial alizarine1—was an old assistant of Prof. v. Baeyer, of Munich, who then occupied the chair of chemistry in the Gewerbe Akademie in Berlin. Prof, v. Baeyer, in his opening address, directed special attention to the cooperation of men of science with technologists, which was the fruit of this important synthesis—a cooperation which has had enormous influence on the development both of German science and industry. The rector of the University of Geneva followed, and he mentioned that, during the twenty-five years of Prof. Graebe's tenure of the chair, he had published 196 memoirs on chemical subjects, while more than 400 papers were published by workers in his laboratory. Prof. Moissan, who, as delegate of the Académie des Sciences, handed to Prof. Graebe the Lavoisier medal, referred in an eloquent speech to the great influence which Graebe's work has had in developing synthetical organic chemistry, and after the presentation of addresses from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Bavaria, from the German Chemical Society, from the Societies of Geneva and. Frankfort, and from the University of Lausanne, Prof. Graebe received from the chairman a gold plaque, engraved with his portrait, and from M. Amé Pictet, on behalf of his old students, a bound copy of his own papers. Dr. Brunck, on behalf of the “Badische” Chemical Company, of which he is managing director, added a tribute to Graebe from the point of view of technology, and in an eloquent reply Prof. Graebe expressed his gratitude and. thanks. About sixty of. the audience remained to a dinner given in honour of Prof. Graebe, at which numerous toasts were drunk, and the proceedings were kept up until a late hour.
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R., W. The German Association at Cassel . Nature 68, 586–588 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068586a0
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