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THE annual general meeting and conference of the Society of Leather Trades' Chemists was held on September 17 and 18 at the University of Leeds, Mr. G. Jessup Cutbush, vice-president of the Society, presiding. Included in the proceedings was the delivery of the third Procter Memorial Lecture, by Mr. G. S. Adair, reader in biophysics, University of Cambridge, who spoke on "Recent Work on Osmotic Pressures, Membrane Equilibrium and the Generalized Free Energy of Protein Solutions in the Light of the Work of Procter". Mr. Adair remarked that this year is the centenary of the birth of Henry Richardson Procter, and the occasion Was also noteworthy since the commemoration lecture was being delivered in Leeds, where his work was carried out.
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Free Energy of Protein Solutions. Nature 162, 670–671 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162670a0
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