Berichte der durstigen chemischen Gesellschaft

The Berichte der durstigen chemischen Gesellschaft was a spoof chemistry journal that appeared in Germany in the late nineteenth century. Its name, which translates as Reports of the Thirsty Chemical Society, was a play on the title of the leading German-language chemistry journal of the time, Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. The "thirsty" version seems to have come out to coincide with conferences or, as the title page puts it, the "outrageous annual gathering" (unerhörter Jahrgang).

Issue no. 20, dated 20 September 1886, is particularly famous for recounting the story of "Kekulé's dream", in which Kekulé supposedly imaged the ring structure of benzene. Hofmann was also the subject of lambasting on the occasion of his 60th birthday in 1878.