PROCEEDINGS AT THE MEETINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. January 2lst 1858. Dr. LYONPLAYFAIR, C.B. President in the Chair. The following Gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society:- Arthur Nield Esq. Bowdon near Manchester. ICichard Rumney Esq. Ardwick Chemical Works Man-Chester. Daniel Hanbury Esq. Plough-court Lombard-street. Dr. Daubeny read and commented upon a communication he had received from Baron Lie b ig relating to some experiments he had'made on the absorptive power of soils in continuation of Professor Way 's experiments. Dr. Daubeny also brought under the consideration of the Society the experiments of TiC'ohler and Deville on the direct formation of nitride of titanium by the ignition of metallic titanium in air or nitrogen and suggested that the source of volcanic ammonia might be a nitride of a similar description that of boron for instance which by the action of steam would be resolved into boracic acid and ammonia.Dr. Hofmann exhibited and described an improved form of gas-combustion furnace whicth he had recently had constructed ; in this furnace the gas is burnt from numerous small openings in clay cylinders which thereby become red hot so that as in the original charcoal furnace the combustion tube is surrounded by ignited solid and the supply of oxygen or air from gasometers is rendered unnecessary. Dr. Frankland also exhibited a combustion furnace which had been arranged by Professor Von Babo. In this furnace the gas PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY.was burnt in a series of modified Bunsen’s burners; the combus-tion tube was surrounded by ignited solid and the stopcocks were replaced by keys resembling those of a musical instrument. A paper was read :-“On the chemical action of Water on soluble Salts;” by Dr. Gladstone. February 4>1858. Dr. LYONPLAYFAIR, C.B. President in the Chair. The following donations mere announced :-“The Journal of the Geological Society :” from the Society. “ Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Scientific Society :” from the Society. “The Pharmaceutical Journal :” from the Editor. ‘‘ The Journal of the Society of Arts :” from the Society. The following were elected Fellows of the Society :-F. A. Manning Esq. 54 Archer-street Paddington.P. J. Worsley Esq. 4 Tabiton-street Gordon-square W. E. Squire Ph.D. 277 Oxford-strcet. J. F. Watson M.A. M.D. 51 Archer-street Kensington- park W. Dr. Hofmann described some experiments in which he had been recently engaged upon poly-atomic ammonias. February 18 1858. Dr. LYONPLAYFAIR, C.B. President in the Chair. The following were elected Fellows of the Society :-T. H. Henry Esq. 44 Lincoln’s-inn-fields. J. Augustus Matthiessen Ph.D. 1 Torrington-street. A paper was read :-“ On the Iodo-sulpliates of the Cinchona Alkaloids t’ by Dr W. Bird Herapath. E2 March 4 1858. Dr. LYONPLAYPAIR, C.B. President in the Chair. The following were elected Fellows of the Society :-Sir Robert Kane F.R.S. Dublin. J. T. Hobs on Esq.Ph.Z). 34 Cleveland-square Hyde-park. W. Thornwaite Esq. 123 Regent-street. The meeting was then adjourned to enable the Members to attend the Bakerian Lecture at the Royal Society. March 18 1858. Dr. LYONPLAYFAIR, C.B. President in the Chair. The following donations were announced :-“Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal lrish Academy.” “ Recherches sur la diffusion du Fluor par M. J. N ickles.,’ “Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts.’ “ Kritische Zeitschrift fkr Chemie Physik und Mathematik.” The following were elected Fellows of the Society:- John Purdue Bidlake B.A. 9 Upper Barnsbury-street Islington. Edward Dalziell M.D. F.R.S.E. Edinburgh. Alexander Goaler B.A. The College Hurstpierpoint Sussex. Thomas Hyde Hills Esq. 338 Oxford-street. Henry Wollaston Hutton B.A. Spordlington Market Raisen Lincolns hire. D avid 0ldfield Esq. Boscombe Lodge Finchley-road. The following papers were read:- “On the action of Bromine on Acetic Acid:” by Messrs. Perkin and Duppa. ‘‘On a Poison obtained from Arrows-” by Mr. Henry Hancock.