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THE twenty-fourth annual general meeting of the Society of Dyers and Colourists was held at Bradford on Friday, April 3, in the large hall of the Technical College. The president, Prof. Meldola, having taken the chair, the Lord Mayor of Bradford, on behalf of the town, welcomed the meeting, and especially the distinguished foreign visitors, Prof. Liebermann and Dr. Schreiner, who were present. The president then, on behalf of the society, awarded the Perkin medal, which for this occasion had been duplicated, to Profs. Graebe and Liebermann for their synthesis of alizarin in 1868. The medal was founded by the society in 1906 in honour of the late Sir William Perkin, and in celebration of the jubilee of the discovery of mauve, the first of the coal-tar colouring matters, the terms of its award being “for investigations, discoveries or inventions of high scientific or industrial importance applicable to or connected with the tinctorial industries.”
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The Society of Dyers and Colourists . Nature 77, 547 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077547a0
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