Well, I made the suggestion – I was on the Publications Committee, of course, of the Chemical Society at that time – I made in committee the suggestion, and two or three other people had had similar ideas and we supported each other, that what we really needed was specialist periodical reports in addition to the annual report. The annual report should back off and just take smaller themes which were of real importance, or of startling discoveries and talk about those, but for the professional inorganic chemist, and equally for organic, physical, analytical and so forth, they needed more about inorganic chemistry and more about the techniques of doing it.

So I proposed the suggestion that was widely accepted to have Specialist Periodical Reports in named aspects of the subject. These weren’t to replace the annual reports but to supplement them.