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AT the instance of the British Science Guild, a public meeting was held at the Mansion House, London, on April 24, when an account was given of certain phases in the development of British chemical industry. Lord Melchott, who presided, referred briefly to the origin and the present status of the nitrogen industry, remarking that although the synthetic ammonia industry has grown up in the last few years, the problem of the supply of artificial fertilisers is by no means new. Nevertheless, older sources of combined nitrogen were inadequate, and had the new industry not been created the fields of the world would soon have starved for one of the most elemental necessities. The new textile also, originally a British conception, has proved applicable in numerous directions, whilst the drug industry is proceeding in the direction of the synthesis of highly complex substances. Other manufactures are equally dependent on the prosecution of scientific research, and the value of such research should be more fully realised.
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Developments of British Chemical Manufactures. Nature 123, 696 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123696a0
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