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WE have been very interested to see the letter by Weil and Williams1 and their remarks on the value of Day's work on chromatography in columns of powdered limestone and fuller's earth, and on Engler's and Albrecht's elaboration of his results, which are certainly cogent. For a complete picture of the history of chromatography, however, it is important to point out that even this is not the full story, and there is a still earlier work in which column chromatography was employed.
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FARRADANE, J. History of Chromatography. Nature 167, 120 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167120a0
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