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Title: The work and position of the metallurgical chemist; also references to Sheffield and its place in metallurgy
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hadfield, Robert A. (Robert Abbott), 1858-1940 Sheffield Association of Metallurgists and Metallurgical Chemists
Subjects: Metallurgy Chemistry, Metallurgic
Publisher: (Sheffield? The Botolph Printing Works
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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old one. He was popular with all of us; he stimulatedand helped on Scientific progress in a remarkable degree. Ifelt much moved, therefore, when Lady White herself wrote mea letter of good wishes, and in which she made some touchingreferences to Sir William, whose name will ever be rememberedin connection with his renowned work on behalf of the Bulwarksof our National Defence, the Navy, as well as Engineering Sciencegenerally. As regards the Address to which I have already referred,judging from the large number of letters of thanks received fromthose at home and abroad, it has, as I trusted and hoped it woulddo, even if in a small and humble way, also helped to cementfurther the good feeling between Engineers of all kinds andclasses of the Anglo-Saxon speaking races. Instructions, too,have just come from the Committee of the Engineering Societiesin New York asking me to prepare for them a further fivehundred copies for circulation amongst the Engineers of thatcountry. 10 w < Eh c H
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Section II SHEFFIELDS WORK We have every reason to be proud of the great work accom-pHshed by our City in the past, and of the place it occupies inour Empire. Many of the great modern improvements in theScience of Metallurgy have been initiated or first carried intopractical effect in Sheffield. Can we maintain our position inthe future ? I answer, Yes, most emphatically, that is if Sheffieldwill make full use of the Educational means in its midst, in-cluding chiefly that centre of intellectual life, our University,from which ordered progress chiefly comes. We are speciallyfortunate in having Sir Henry Hadow, one of our greatestEducationalists, to preside over its policy and influence itsdestinies. I wish every success to our City and its future. If we aretrue to ourselves I am not alarmed about the outlook. Whilst,as Lord Rosebery said not long ago, some appear to succeed inlife without any form of academic discipline, yet on the otherhand we have the remarkable testimony of probably

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