In 2012, I wrote a story of the first ever reaction curly arrows, attributed to Robert Robinson in 1924. At the time there was a great rivalry between him and another UK chemist, Christopher Ingold, with the latter also asserting his claim for their use. As part of the move to White City a lot of bookshelves were cleared out from the old buildings in South Kensington, with the result that yesterday a colleague brought me a slim volume they had found entitled The Journal of the Imperial College Chemical Society (Volume 6).‡
This journal is a record of lectures given to the chemistry department by visiting speakers, this one dating from 1926, about two years after the article by Robinson noted above.
There are a number of points of interest.
I suspect those who have dug through the historical archives to cast light on the Robinson/Ingold rivalry may not have appreciated that the Journal of the Imperial College Chemical Society might have been an interesting source!
‡There were nine volumes produced during 1921-1930. It then morphed into The Scientific Journal of the Royal College of Science which continued for an unknown number of years.
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