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SINCE the autumn of 1914 a great change has taken place in the public attitude towards the natural sciences, and towards chemistry in particular. One of the recognised duties of the spokesmen of science during the past sixty years or more has been that of endeavouring to bring home to the general public and to its administrators the danger of neglecting the cultivation of pure and applied science. The eloquent discourses of our predecessors, Lyon Playfair, Roscoe, Meldola, and the veterans happily still with us, Tilden and Armstrong, all past-presidents of our society, on the national importance of chemistry are well known to all of us, but we cannot claim that these utterances produced an effect compatible with their gravity.
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Chemistry in the National Service . Nature 103, 214–217 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/103214a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/103214a0