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AFTER showing that the foundations of theoretical chemistry were laid almost exclusively by the chemists of England, France, and Sweden, the speaker proceeded to discuss the position of industrial chemistry. The “Report on Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products and Processes” in the International Exhibition of 1862, from the pen of A. W. Hofmann, then professor of chemistry in the Royal College of Chemistry and Royal School of Mines, London, contains the following passage (p. 3):—“The contributions of the United Kingdom, and in particular the splendid chemical display in the Eastern Annexe, prove the British not only to have maintained their pre-eminence among the chemical manufacturers of the world, but to have outdone their own admitted superiority on the corresponding occasion of 1851.”
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The Supply of Chemicals to Britain and Her Dependencies 1 . Nature 94, 410–411 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094410a0
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