High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) is a learned society set up in 1881 "to further the application of chemistry and related sciences for the public benefit". Its purpose is "Promoting the commercial application of science for the benefit of society". Its first president was Henry Enfield Roscoe and its first secretary was George E. Davis. Other noted chemists associated with the society are William Perkin, Rudolph Messel, Ludwig Mond, Leo Baekeland, Sir Eric Rideal, Charles F. Chandler, Richard Seligman, Hamilton Young Castner, George Thomas Beilby, Henry Edward Armstrong, William Ramsay, Viscount Leverhulme, Charles Tennant, and Leslie Lampitt.