Excerpt from Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Vol. 37: Review, Vol. I, 1918 The custom of the London Section of the Society by which the opening meeting of the session is an occasion for an address by the President has again been amply justified. In choosing as his topic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.