| Description | Professor P F Frankland in the chair. Committee business, including the report on eponite submitted in the Chemical Trade Journal, and notes on the properties of charchoals from the Director at Kew; ongoing business including 1851 Exhibition Scholars; research on sensitising dyes; correspondence with the Chemical Warfare Committee on beta dichlorethyl sulphide; a report by the National Health Insurance Commission stating that 'in the case of some important drugs the failure of supplies, more especially for the needs of the Army Medical Department, has been prevented by the manufacture of adequate quantities through the agency of the Royal Society'; reports on the last stages of beta-eucaine and atrophine production; discussion on steps to ensure that there would be no break in the supply of trained chemists 'following the close of hostilities'. p58-60. |