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CMB - Committee minute books of the Royal Society
- 28 - Chemistry War Committee

RefNo	CMB/28/22
Level	Item
Title	Minutes, meeting of the Chemistry Sub-Committee
Date	12 April 1916
Description	Lists those present with H J H Fenton in the Chair. Committee business, including a report on the work on aircraft dope; a report that one firm was contemplating taking up the manufacture of cellulose acetate; a report that the Explosives Department had agreed to raise the grant for those engaged in the tar testing work; consideration of suggestions arising from the conference of drug workers, including the preparation of 'lists of chemicals...tabulating the manufacturing sources in this country from which these chemicals could be obtained'; reports on applications for information regarding the preparation of synthetic drugs by Burroughs Wellcome & Co, the Cooper Laboratory, Messers Boots and Messers Strange & Graham; decision to defer the question of organising the production of research chemicals apart from drugs, 'rendering the chemists of this country independent of the well-known alien enemy sources of supply'. p37-9.
Extent	6pp
Format	Typescript
AccessStatus	Open

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