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A Sceptical Chemist in a Biological Wonderland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

J. N. Davidson
J. N. Davidson
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Institute of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow.
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It is the custom of our Society that the President of the day should at some period in his term of office address the Fellows. The manner in which he interprets this charge will, of course, vary according to individual preference, but for obvious reasons, he usually elects to give his personal interpretation of that area of science in which he is himself most deeply concerned.

Our Society was founded in the days before science was split into highly specialized sections and long before the advent of the specialist societies restricted to one scientific discipline, such as the Chemical Society, the Biochemical Society or the Society for Experimental Biology. This, in the opinion of many of our Fellows, is its main strength, since, as a general Society concerned with all aspects of science, it can exert an integrative function; in fact, it serves many of the purposes of the Academies which are so well known in other parts of Europe, as is made clear in the Letters Patent granting our Armorial Bearings.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , 1968 , pp. 1 - 22
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1968

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