Lecture - 'Sir William Perkin's adventure and what has come of it'

Reprint from 'Chemistry and Industry' Vol. LVII, No. 16, pp. 1137-1142, of a Perkin Centenary Lecture delivered before a joint meeting of the Society of Chemical Industry and the Chemical Society by Dr. Herbert Levinstein, M.Sc. The lecture was titled 'Sir William Perkin's adventure and what has come of it'.