G.33-G.39: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemistry, 1972-1996. The Society was formed in August 1971 at the VIIth International Congress of Chemotherapy in Prague. Abraham was invited to join the Society in 1972 and became an honorary member in 1979. In 1974 he accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of the Society's new journal Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Abraham delivered the 5th L.P. Garrod Lecture to the Society on 'B-Lactam Antibiotics:…