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November-December 2007
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Errata
Gerard P. Moss, professor at Queen Mary, University of London, provided the
following clarification regarding an article about William Perkin’s discovery of
mauveine that appeared in the March-April 2007 CI, on pages 4–7 in print.
“In the preamble of John Malin’s feature describing CHEMRAWN, he quotes
Bryant Rossiter, first chair of the CHEMRAWN Committee. Unfortunately, the
first statement attributed to Rossiter is erroneous: The 18-year-old William
Perkin did discover mauveine in 1865, but it was in his father’s house in King
David Lane, in the East End of London, not Cambridge. At the time, he was
studying at the Royal College of Chemistry in Oxford Street, London, under
August W. Hofmann (not Hoffman). The Royal College is the earliest constituent
institution, renamed Imperial College, London, in 1907.”
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