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THE Society of Chemical Industry will hold its annual general meeting in Edinburgh during July 12-17. This is the first annual general meeting since the War to be held outside London, and the first since 1927 to be held in Edinburgh. The president of the Society, Dr. L. H. Lampitt, chief chemist and a director of Messrs. J. Lyons and Co., Ltd., will deliver his address on July 13. On July 14 there will be a lecture by Sir John Anderson, who has been awarded the Messel Medal for 1948 of the Society. The Lister Memorial Lecture will be given on July 15. This Lecture was founded to commemorate the influence of the work of the late Lord Lister on the pharmaceutical industry in Edinburgh and was endowed in 1944 by two Edinburgh firms of drug and fine chemical manufactures, Messrs. J. F. Macfarlan and Co. and Messrs. T. and H. Smith, Ltd. The first lecturer, in 1944, was Sir Alexander Fleming. This year‘s Lecture will be devoted to biochemistry. A series of papers will be presented dealing with industrial chemical aspects of a number of the principal industries in the east of Scotland. They will describe some of the industrial research which has already been done in Scotland and will point to the possibilities for the future. In many cases the lectures will be followed by visits to the factories and installations of the various industries. Lectures will be given by Prof. S. Watson, principal of the East of Scotland College of Agriculture; Dr. G. A. Reay, of the Torry Research Station, Aberdeen; Mr. E. R. H. Edge, of Messrs. Alex. Pirie and Co., Aberdeen, on paper-making; Prof. W. H. Melville, of the University of Aberdeen, on rubber; Dr. I. A. Preece, of the Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, on brewing; and Mr. H. Corteen, director of the British Jute Trade Research Association of Dundee, will speak on "Research Developments and Applications to Textile Industries in East Central Scotland". The meeting is being organised by the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Section of the Society, the honorary secretary of which is F. J. Bolton, 17 Wester Coates Avenue, Edinburgh 12.
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Society of Chemical Industry: Annual General Meeting. Nature 161, 306–307 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161306d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161306d0