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IN the autumn of last year there occurred in Rome an event which attracted the attention of the whole scientific world, and more especially of that portion of it which is concerned with chemistry. The occasion was the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the birth of Prof. Stanislao Cannizzaro, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, and Professor of Chemistry in the University of Rome. The pages of this journal have already borne witness to the feelings of esteem and gratitude which that event evoked. At the public meeting called to do him honour, all the learned bodies in the world which have any concern with science, or have any regard for its welfare, combined to offer their felicitations, and vied with each in the warmth of their expressions of appreciation and good will, and a multitude of letters and telegrams were received from chemists in all parts of Europe and America. The place of honour in the list of the addresses, as enumerated in the interesting account of the ceremony since published, is given to that from the Royal Society, which repeated the terms in which the Council had previously made known to Prof. Cannizzaro its reason for awarding him the highest distinction in its power. Next comes that from the Chemical Society, which recalls with pride that the name of Cannizzaro has given lustre to the roll of its foreign members for more than half the period of his life-time.
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THORPE, T. Scientific Worthies: XXX—Stanislao Cannizzaro. Nature 56, 1–4 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056001a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056001a0