Abstract
THIS lecture, in memory of A. W. von Hofmann, was delivered by Prof. G. T. Morgan, director of the Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington, at the Imperial College of Science and Technology on May 4, Lord Rayleigh, chairman of the Governing Body of the College, presiding. Hofmann was the first director of the Royal College of Chemistry, which was founded in 1845. He held this position for twenty years. The College was eventually renamed the Royal College of Science, and became a constituent part of the Imperial College at South Kensington. In previous years, Huxley Memorial Lectures have been given at the College during the first week of May; in future, these will be alternated with lectures commemorating other distinguished men who have been associated with the Imperial College or its forerunners. The Hofmann Memorial Lecture was the first of the new series, and Prof. Morgan, from his early associations with the College and his work in organic chemistry, was an appropriate choice as lecturer. A brief account, giving the substance of the lecture, appears elsewhere in this issue (p. 769), and the complete lecture is also available (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., Is. net).
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