THE ERA OF THE CHEMIST.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1928, Page 3

THE ERA OF THE CHEMIST.

“This era we are entering looks like ■ being the era of chemistry. The chemist clothes us, feeds us, cures us, prqi mises us an England virtually independent of foreign foodstuffs and imported oil, and may easily before the century is out bo extracting power from the atmosphere as he now extracts nitrogen. What is very hopeful in this great buzz of ' scientific research is that Englishmen seem to he well to the front. By far the best organised of all our national industries is the chemical industry, and its contributions to medicine, agriculture, manufacturing, the coal problem, the timber shortage, the clothes wc wear, and the food wo cat, have an illimitable range and prospect. Of brilliant individual investigators like Harvey we have never been short. What we are now doing is to organise research in one department and in one industry after another with a thoroughness and on a scale hitherto unknown in oiu history. The Harveys of the future will find a splendid plant and equipment on which to exercise their native genius.”—“ Sunday Times.”