| Description | Explains that over the last year the Chemical Committee has organised the successful production of many important drugs - ones which were previously obtained from foreign sources. Explains the use of this, especially in the war effort.
Discusses the Committee's interest in the production of photographic chemicals in this country [Britain]. Explains the need for a supply of special dyes used for colour sensitising, and for research. Notes the national importance of this, considering that colour sensitisers are required for aeroplane photography.
Asks for the Privy Council Committee for Scientific and Industrial Research to give them a grant of £600 or £700 a year, so that they can put organic chemists to work finding the best methods of making these colour sensitisers. Notes that the work would be supervised by Professor [William Jackson] Pope FRS, of Cambridge University. |