Other Professional Associations of Chemists in the Czech Lands

5 Other Professional Associations of Chemists in the Czech Lands 

In the Czech Lands there existed a variety of strong professional groups of chemists which founded their associations in the second half of the nineteenth century (see Table 3.3), serving the interests of more demarcated circles of 

6 Membership Profile and Demarcation of the Czech Chemical Societies 

To learn about the membership profiles and compare them in the three interrelated Czech chemical societies - the original SCHC, the dissident SPCH and the unified CSCH - some statistical probes were necessary (see Tables 3.5, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9). To get comparable results, lists of members of the three societies from years close to each other were chosen. For SCHC it was the year 1902, in the time of the schism, when the total number of members was nearing its maximum. The statistics of the SPCH come from 1905, which is the year 

SCHC - Spolek chemiku ceskych 1902 - total membership 407 (Society of Czech Chemists). SPCH - Spolecnost pro priimysl chemicky v Krdlovstvi ceskem 1905 - total membership 514 (Society for Chemical Industry in the Czech Kingdom). 

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