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to engender a discussion in this section!  Some englishmen seemed rather ugly.  Specially a certain [[underlined]] Kershaw [[/underlined]] - with one eye - who afterwards had some rather stiff and ambiguous correspondence with me and who for some reason or another took a decided stand against me and wanted all details about cost of manufacturing etc. sent him copy of my paper.
At lunch time met Sir Joseph [[underlined]] Swan [[/underlined]], same fine head as twenty years ago but a little deaf on one side otherwise very wide awake and much interested in Bakelite.  While talking with [[underlined]] Emil Mond [[/underlined
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[[written vertically in red in margin]] [[?]] for 1912 Congress [[/marginal entry]]
who invites me to spend week-end at his country place. - which I declined -- advancing busy times -- [[underlined]] Sir William Ramsey[[/underlined]] came to me and invited me to his office.  He told me it had been decided to elect President [[underlined]] Nichols, [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] Vice [[/strikethrough]] Honorary President [[strikethrough]] hon [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] [[Ira Remiro?]] [[/underlined]] I told him what I thought and how american chemists had been led by commercial interests represented by [[underlined]] Schweitzer [[/underlined]] and how this was a slight for Wiley and how I was afraid all this might stir up ill feeling as americans had not been consulted as to choice whereupon he grasped in his drawer and showed me that printed sheet which [[underlined]] Schweitzer [[/underlined]] has had
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