LEARNED SOCIETIES
T 9 BUILD CATHEDRAL HOME MANCHESTER, October 16. Proposals for the establishment or a “cathedral of (natural) science, to serve as a home for learned and technical societies, were outlined by fair Arnold Wilson at the forty-eighth annual meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry held here. With a view to bringing together the experts of the research world. Sir Arnold said that the project won'* involve the erection of a structure costing £350,000, where organisations dealing with chemistry—including rubber, mining metallurgy, and fuel—could centralise their activities. A suitable site in Westminster, London, was being chosen. A library of 100,000 volumes is proposed. ... . . Sir Arnold characterised the project as “a great scheme that had been passed unanimously by the councils of all the societies concerned.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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127LEARNED SOCIETIES Evening Star, Issue 20318, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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