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IT is now fifty-three years since I first met Playfair. He was President of the Chemical Section of the British Association in 1855 at Glasgow. Frankland and I were the Secretaries. Liebig attended the meeting, and stayed with his friend Walter Crum, and it was appropriate that Playfair, who was one of Liebig's most promising English pupils, should preside over a meeting of chemists at which his German master was present. Playfair then was in the height of his activity. His addresses in 1855, and again thirty years later, when he was President of the Association, although not containing much of striking originality, were clear, luminous expositions, as indeed were his speeches in the House of Commons, and latterly in the House of Lords.
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R., H. Lyon Playfair. Nature 58, 128–129 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058128a0
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