DUTCH CONSENSUS GROUP

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DUTCH CONSENSUS GROUP TNO EUROPEAN COUNCIL FOR PLASTICISERS... 

As a result of their mutual consensus on a broad chemical society, Jorissen, Reicher and Rutten drafted a proposal which contained the basic principles of the scope, aims and working rules of the new society, and sent this text in 1902 to all professors of chemistry and pharmacy of the four Dutch universities and the Polytechnic College. When in November 1902 these draft statutes were made public for the first time - in the Tijdschrift - Jorissen and his friends clearly tried to enrol the joint group of professors for their purposes. Until now , they wrote, we received replies from all [professors], except two, with remarks and comments, as solicited. From these rephes it appeared to us, that in general there is sympathy for our plan among the professors. ... 

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