Over 120 members attended the debate, which was the first of its kind to be organised by the Group, and a most entertaining and instructive evening took place. The motion was decisively defeated, but not before many eloquent speakers had pleaded their case for the motion.The motion was proposed by Dr. W. T. Elwell (Imperial Metal Industries Ltd.). In his introductory remarks, Dr. Elwell defined the various terms to be used in the debate. According to the Oxford Dictionary, cZassicaZ related particularly to ancient Greek or Latin standard authors of art, so it could be concluded from this authoritative scmrce of information that classical, as used in its present context, related to analytical chemistry as practised well before the modern era of analytical instrumentation-the era in which the basic principles involved in the analytical sciences had only been discovered and exploited to full advantagewithin, say, the last quarter of a century.
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