Présentation de l'éditeur
Lecture I. In accepting the invitation of the Institute to take a part in the scheme of lectures under which it seeks to extend its constructive work outside and beyond the more fundamental academic influences, I take it that I am expected to address myself chiefly to the younger members, and to give them some of the results, so far as they can be so communicated, of thirty years experience as a specialist: a record which may be presumed to furnish points of determination, guidance and warning to a younger generation. I am able to presume upon a very general interest in the subject of Cellulose arising out of the unique position of the substance itself in the world of things. As a chemical individual, however, it has only a very sectional corner in the fabric of the science; and specialists investigations of cellulose cannot claim to have contributed matter of any importance to systematic science. Consequently, we may be even thought to be hypercritical if we point out that the sectional treatment of Cellulose in the standard text-books is always inadequate and largely inaccurate. As regards the past and the ever-elusive present, we may admit that it really doesnt matter that our text-books attach little importance to the subject; but as a subject with a future it claims critical attention.
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