2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS. A N ordinary meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday evening, December 2, in the Chemical Society’s Rooms, Burlington House. The President, Mr. A. Chasten Chapman, F.I.C., occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous ordinary meeting were read and confirmed. Certificates of proposal for election to membership in favour of Messrs.H. 8, Machin and F. Robinson, M.Sc., A.I.C., were read for the second time; and a certificate in favour of Mr. David Mitchell, Oak House, Grafton Place, London, N.W., assistant to Dr. Bernard Dyer, was read for the first time. Messrs. J. K. Crow, D.Sc., F.I.C., and H. Finnemore, B.Sc., F.I.C., were elected members of the Society.The President announced that the following nominations of Officers and Council for 1915 had been made at the Council meeting that afternoon : President.-A. Chaston Chapman, F.I.C. Past-Presidents serving on the Council (limited by tlze Society’s Articles of Associa- twn to eight in mm,ber).-L. Archbutt, F.I.C. ; Edward J. Bevan, F.I.C. ; Bernard Dyer, D.Sc., F.I.C.; Thomas Fairley, F.I.C. ; Otto Hehner, F.I.C. ; R. R. Tatlock, F.I.C.; E. W. Voelcker, A.R.S.M., F.I.C. ; J. Augustus Voelcker, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D., F.I.C. Vke-Presidents.-J. H. B. Jenkins ; H. Droop Richmond, F.I.C. ; R. T. Thom- son, F.I.C. Hon. Treasurer.-Edward Hinks, B. Sc., F.I.C. Hon. Secretary.-P. A. Ellis Richards, F.I.C. Other Members of Coun,ciZ.-E. M. Chaplin, Ph.D., F.I.C.; J. H. Coste, F.I.C. ; J . A. Dewhirst, F.I.C.; P. V. Dupre, A.C.G.I., F.I.C.; G. H. Gemmell, F.I.C.; R. G. Grimwood, F.I.C.; E. M. Hawkins, F.I.C. ; C. A. Keane, D.Sc., Ph.D.,F.I.C.; R. Lessing, Ph.D. ; L. Myddelton Nash, F.I.C. ; Thomas Tickle, B.Sc., F.I.C. ; W. Collingwood Williams, B. Sc., F.I.C. Referring to the fact that only one Honorary Secretary had been nominated, the President said that, on account of the existing circumstances, which they all deplored, Dr. Lessing had thought that it would perhaps be better that the Council should not re-nominate him as an Honorary Secretary.The Council much regretted that Dr. Lessing, who is a naturalised British subject, should cease to be an officer of the Society, as he enjoyed their full confidence and esteem.The nomination of a second Honorary Secretary would be made at a special meeting of the Council later.” The following papers were read : ‘‘ Application of Spectrography to Analysis,” * At a subsequent Council Meeting Mr. E. Richards Bolton was nominated to the vacant Ron. Secretaryship.SOME OLEAGINOUS SEEDS AND FRUITS 3 by S. Judd Lewis, D.Sc., F.I.C. ; “Note on some Oleaginous Seeds,” by E. R. Bolton and Enid M. Jesson; ‘‘ Corrections in Bomb Calorimetry,” by G. N. Huntly, B.Sc., A.R.C.Sc., F.I.C.; and “The Estimation of Sulphur in Rubber,” by R. Gaunt, M.Sc., Ph.D.