Starch Round Table

In 1946 he undertook an extensive tour in the United States of America and Canada in the course of which he attended the Starch Round Table at Estes Park, Colorado, and lectured to the American Chemical Society. He particularly enjoyed this tour which enabled him to renew personal contact with C. S. Hudson whom he had first met at the tenth Conference of the International Union of Chemistry at Li ge in 1930, and whose friendship he greatly valued. Two years later, in 1948, he reached the age of sixty-five and, although still at the height of his powers, he retired from the Chair at Birmingham that he had held with such distinction for twenty-three years. The severance from Binning-... 

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