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REFERENCE has already been made to the banquet given on November 11 to Sir J. Henry Gilbert, Sir Edward Frankland, K.C.B., Prof. W. Odling, Sir Frederick Abel, Bart., K.C.B., Prof. A. W. Williamson, and Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Past Presidents of the Chemical Society, who have been Fellows of the Society for fifty years or more. The idea of expressing in this way the high regard in which men of science hold the work of these distinguished chemists was an excellent one, and it was well carried out. The large number of congratulatory telegrams and communications received on the day of the banquet from every country where the science of chemistry is cultivated showed that the whole civilised world was in sympathy with the object of the banquet. Communications were received from France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Russia, Austria, the United States, and several other countries.
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The Chemical Society's Banquet to Past-Presidents. Nature 59, 84–87 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059084a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059084a0