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THE president of the Board of Trade has appointed a committee to consider and advise as to the best means of obtaining for the use of British industry sufficient supplies of chemical products, colours, and dyestuffs of kinds hitherto largely imported from countries with which we are at present at xvar. The committee is constituted as follows:—Lord Haldane (chairman), Dr. George T. Beilby, F.R.S., Dr. J. Dobbie, F.R.S., Mr. David Howard, Mr. Ivan Levinstein, Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., Mr. Max Muspratt, Prof. W. H. Perkin, F.R.S., Mr. Milton Sharp, Sir Arthur J. Tedder, Mr. Joseph Turner, Mr. T. Tyrer, with Mr. John Anderson, of the National Health Insurance Commission, and a representative of the Board of Trade. The secretary of the committee is Mr. F. Gossling (of the Patent Office), to whom all communications should be addressed at the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board of Trade, Basinghall Street, E.C.