JANUARY 7 938 Vol. 63 No. 742 THE ANALYST PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS Ax Ordinary Meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday December lst 1937, at the Chemical Society’s Rooms Burlington House Piccadilly W.l the President, Dr. G. Roche Lynch being in the chair. Certificates were read in favour of :-John Edward Byles B.Sc. F.I.C., William Montague Dowson B.Sc. A.I.C. Alfonzo JPilatzas Fill Joseph Frederick E r s t BSc. F.I.C. Thomas Worthington Jackson 13.S~. A.I.C. Robert Leopold Kenny B.Sc. A.I.C. Arthur James Lindsey Ph.D. M.Sc. A.I.C. Francis Arthur Lyne B.Sc. A.I.C. Cecil Denis Bradley Moon A.I.C. James William Tullo, B.Sc. F.I.C. James Norman Vickers B.Sc. A.I.C. The following were elected members of the Society :-Harold Firth Bamford, B.A.Cecil Robertson Bond M.Sc.Techn. F.I.C. Frederick Alan Dawson BSc., John Hawthorne B.A. Ph.D. F.I.C. Geoffrey Moses A.M.C.T. F.I.C. Marcus Robinson B.Sc. A.I.C. and John Linley Wilson M.Sc. F.I.C. The following papers were read and discussed :-“The Detection and Determin-ation of 9-Hydroxybenzoic Acid in the Presence of Salicylic Acid,” by S. G. Stevenson M.Sc B.Pharrn. F.I.C. and J. Resuggan; “The Contamination of Whale Oil with Fuel Oil,” Parts I and 11 by E. R. Bolton M.I.Chem.E. F.I.C. and K. A. Williams BSc. F.I.C. ; “The Analysis of Glucose-Fructose Mixtures with Special Reference to Honey,” by C. R. Marshall Ph.D. A.I.C. and A. G. Norman, M.Sc. D.Sc. Ph.D. F.I.C. SCOTTISH SECTION AN Ordinary Meeting of the Section was held in Glasgow on November 17th 1937. The following papers were read and discussed:-“A Method for the Estimation of Bismuth in Biological Materials,” by S. L. Tompsett Ph.D, BSc. F.I.C.; “Variations in the Composition of Black-currants,” by John F. Brown B.Sc. A.I.C.