xxiv. Chemical Section. [October 2gth, 1920. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE MANCHESTER LITERARY AND 

 PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



CHEMICAL SECTION. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 29th, 1920. 



Mr. J. H. Lester, M.Sc., F.I.C. (Chairman), in the Chair. 



The Chairman introduced a discussion on " The Textile 

 Chemist." 



Distinction was made between Textile Chemistry and the 

 sciences in which the Textile Chemist shoulc ' be trained. 

 Physics is at least as important as Chemistry to the chemist 

 in textile work for he is expected to have a grasp of all matters 

 which are merely " Science " to the works manager and to 

 men not accustomed to distinguishing between Chemistry and 

 Physics. The chemist in a dye-making works is only a Textile 

 Chemist when he deals with the textile process of d} r eing. 



The textile chemist who aims at occupying a leading position 

 in the industry, and not to be merely a works tester or analyst, 

 should have a more thorough training in pure chemistry and 

 physics than is possible in a three years' graduate course in 

 textile technolog3^. The technology of his course should be 

 taken mainly in the post-graduate stage in a technical college 

 as distinct from a technical school. The school and college are 

 of equal importance, but the former should be for the training 

 of analysts and works foremen and the latter for a more 

 advanced type of scientific technologist. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 29th, 1920. 



Mr. J. H. Lester, M.Sc, F.I.C. (Chairman), in the Chair. 



Mr. Harold E. Potts, M.Sc, introduced a discussion on 

 " How can the results of chemical research be best 

 protected by patents?" 



The paper outlined the collaboration necessary between a 

 research director and a patent agent if the results of research 



