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ALTHOUGH so many topical subjects were, on account of the war, excluded from the discussions of the section, the attendance at the meetings was on the whole satisfactory, exceeding the anticipations of the earlier part of the year. It is, however, clear that anything like general interest can only be evoked in the Chemical Section by discussions on rather broad subjects, papers giving the results of researches on some particular branch being only too frequently delivered to nearly empty benches. This not infrequently arises from the paper being so specialised that the author is practically the only person in the room capable of appreciating its significance and value. One cannot help feeling that the atmosphere of the Chemical Society or other specialised body would be more sympathetic. Under the exceptional circumstances of this year foreign guests were few in number, but the section had the pleasure of welcoming and listening to two of our Belgian allies—Prof. Henry and Prof. Ran-wez, from Louvain, the former giving an account of researches on the preparation and properties of vinyl-acetic nitrile, which he has carried out in Prof. Perkin's laboratory at Oxford during his residence in this country, while the latter contributed a paper to the discussion on smoke.
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Chemistry at the British Association . Nature 96, 273–275 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096273b0
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