Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.

Annual dinner : September 8th 1904, Waldorf-Astoria, New York / Society of Chemical Industry.

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