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As one who has some direct knowledge of the affairs of the Chemical Society, I should like to reply to the letter from Dr. M. W. Travers which appeared in NATURE of October 4. Dr. Travers has presented a singularly one-sided statement of the position, for in his endeavour to prove that the societies give an inadequate return for the subscriptions received, he omits essential points which any fair-minded man would take into consideration before giving a verdict on that charge.

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PHILIP, J. Organisation in Chemical Societies. Nature 114, 609 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114609a0

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