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The Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
The next meeting of the Society will be held on Thursday 23 November
2000 in the Conference Room of the Science Museum and Imperial
College Library, London SW7, starting at 11.45am. The entrance
to the Library is in Imperial College Road, off Exhibition Road. The
nearest underground station is South Kensington.
WORKSHOP MEETING - PRESERVING THE CHEMICAL MEMORY
Programme
11.45 Coffee
12.00 Dr Peter Morris, Science Museum, London.
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12.30 Discussion.
12.40 LUNCH
13.40 Dr Leo Slater, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, USA.
Recovering a Usable Past: Oral History and the Chemical Sciences
14.10 Discussion.
14.20 Mr Peter Harper, National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of
Contemporary Scientists, Bath.
Preserving the Archives of British Chemists: Past, Present and
Future
14.50 Dr Peter Morris.
Industrial Archives, and Discussion.
15.10 Mr David Cranstone, Cranstone Consultants, Gateshead.
Eyesore or Ancient Monument? Chemical Sites as Archaeological
Heritage.
15.40 Discussion.
15.50 Dr David Leaback, Biolink Technology.
Some Efforts to Project the Memory of some Epic London Chemistries
into the Future
16.20 Dr Peter Morris.
The ACS Landmarks Programme, and Discussion.
The meeting will close at 16.40
The meeting is open to members and non-members. The meeting fee is
10.00, which includes coffee.
A sandwich lunch will be available at the meeting. The charge for the
lunch is 5.00.
The following meeting of the Society will be held jointly with the Royal
Institution on Friday 23 March 2001. It will commemorate the 200th
anniversary of Davy joining the Institution, and will be held in
the Institution's Sunley Lecture Theatre, commencing at 2.30 pm.
John Hudson
Hon Secretary
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