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A Corrosion Society for everyone? The formation of the British Joint Corrosion Group, announced in these columns last month, has been hotly followed by news of another such body in the offing, namely the Corrosion and Protection Association. Bearing in mind that there has existed for some years an association which aims at nation‐wide coverage of anti‐corrosion matters—The British Association of Corrosion Engineers— and also that there must be hundreds of technicians and researchers in Universities and industry whose work has a direct bearing on anti‐corrosion and who belong to none of the above societies, one wonders where it is all going to stop. The situation of corrosion societies at the moment is reminiscent of that when labour unions were first started up—with the proviso that in those pre‐technological days there were many more excuses for needless elaboration of effort.