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THE women, like the Peris at Heaven's Gate, have knocked at the door of the Chemical Society and have asked to be let in. Their request, as will be seen from the correspondence which we print below, has been referred to the whole body of the fellows, and there are those among them who are much perturbed in consequence. The more excited ones, we understand, are all for banging, barring and bolting, unmindful of the portents that a banging, barring and bolting policy is nowadays a bit discredited. Others, and we trust, for the fair fame and credit of the society as a scientific organisation, that they are the majority, are of opinion that the time has come when its fellowship should be rendered accessible to women. At least, so say the 312 fellows (including 10 past presidents, 12 vice-presidents, and 29 members of council, past and present), among whom are 33 Fellows of the Royal Society, and the heads of the chemical departments of nearly all the most important universities and colleges in the kingdom, who have now moved the council, by the most influentially signed memorial that body has ever received, to consent to the referendum.
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Women and the Fellowship of the Chemical Society. Nature 78, 226–228 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078226a0
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