MARCH, 1963 Vol. 88, No. 1044 THE ANALYST E,DITORIAL Accent on Youth IT has always been the policy of the Society to encourage the reading of papers and to promote discussion of subjects of analytical interest. Some come from industrial laboratories, some from academic institutions or municipal undertakings ; some are in private practice, some are in Government service. Many are acknowledged experts in their respective fields, others are at the beginnings of their careers-the experts of tomorrow. All have a common interest in some branch of Analytical Chemistry in its widest sense. Addressing a public scientific meeting for the first time is an occasion of some moment for the young researcher. How will his ideas be received by an audience that almost certainly will include “elder statesmen” of the profession-scientists of far wider experience than his own? Is he perhaps a little apprehensive, for we find that the post-graduate student is not always as ready as we would wish to come forward spontaneously and describe his work.Yet there is no doubt that it is from the work of these young men and women, in the Uni- versities and Technical Colleges throughout the country, that many of the most valuable advances will come and from whom many of the new techniques of the future will arise. The Society is very conscious of the importance of the work being done at the Univer- sities and Technical Colleges and the grade of “Junior Membership” was inaugurated some years ago so that the “younger generation” should be better represented in the Society’s ranks.But there is still a reluctance, or a reticence, on the part of many Junior Members and their contemporaries to present papers at our meetings, and the Programmes Committee has recently been making strenuous efforts to break down this resistance. We should like a t least one of our meetings each year to be set aside as a forum for discussion of work in progress at these centres of learning and thus to foster the active participation of the post-graduate students, who will, after all, be the practising analysts of the future. We have been in touch with several Universities and Colleges of Technology and, broadly speaking, found them in sympathy with our views. With their help we have been able to arrange a meeting, to be held on April 9th a t Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London, S.W.3, for which the programme will consist of six papers contributed entirely by these “up and coming” analysts. We look forward to hearing what they have to say and we are confident that an interesting and stimulating evening is in store. Speakers are drawn from far and wide. 153