JANUARY 1928. Vol. LIII. No. 622. THE ANALYST PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTlCAL CHEMISTS. AN Ordinary Meeting of the Society was held at the Chemical Society’s Rooms, Burlington House on Wednesday December 7th the President Mr. E. Richards Bolton F.I.C. being in the chair. Certificates were read for the first time in favour of George Reginald Barnes,, B.Sc. Cecil Abell Bassett B.Sc. A.I.C. Ethel Irene Beeching M.Sc. A.I.C., Harold Pease Buttrick A.I.C. Cecil Owen Harvey B.Sc. A.R.C.S. A.I.C. Harold Vivian Horton B.Sc. A.I.C. Thomas Howard M.Sc. A.I.C. Harold McKee Langton M.A. BSc. A.I.C. William Alfred Nottage Markwell Walter George Messenger B.Sc. A.I.C. Edward John Newby B.Sc. Horace Samuel Rooke, MSc. A.I.C. Claude Trevine Symons B.A.F.I.C. David Rees Thomas M.B., Ch.B. S. Sera and Wilfred A. Whitley. Certificates were read for the second time in favour of Alfred Harry Bateman, B.Sc. A.I.C. Arthur Owen Blackhurst M.D. William Clayton D.Sc. F.I.C., Charles William Cornwell B.Sc. A.I.C. and Thomas Riley A.I.C. The following were elected Members of the Society:-Leslie V. Cocks A.I.C., Frederick Dixon B.Sc. A.I.C. David Michael Freeland A.I.C. Desmond Geoghegan Claudius George Hyde A.R.C.S. F.I.C. Vernon James Tilley F.I.C., Leonard Wild B.Sc. and Hugh A. Williams A.C.G.F.C. A.I.C. Demonstrations were given by G. W. Monier-Williams O.B.E. Ph.D. F.I.C., of an Apparatus for determining Benzoic Acid in Foods and by T. McLachlan, F.I.C. and A. W. Middleton of a Sodium Flame for Polarimetric Work. The following papers were read and discussed :-“ Oil Bromide Films and their use in determining the Halogen Absorption of Oils,” by Harold Toms M.Sc., A.I.C. (work done under the Analytical Investigation Scheme) ; “ Tests for Impurities in Ether,’’ by G. Middleton BSc. A.I.C. and F. C. Hymas B.Sc., A.I.C.; and “Arsenic in Coated Papers and Boards,” by Harold J. Stern B.Sc., Ph.D. F.I.C.