JULY, 1917. Vol. XLII., No. 496. THE ANALYST. OBITUARY .* FREDERICK WALLIS STODDART. FREDERICK WALLIS STODDART, who died on April 15, 1916, aged fifty-seven, was the son of the late W. W. Stoddart, the first Public Analyst for the City of Bristol, and Public Analyst for the County of Somerset. Frederick Wallis Stoddart was educated at: the Bristol Grammar School, a t University College, Rristol, and at St.Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where, in 1877, he became assistant to Dr. Bernays, in whose laborat,ory he worked for three years. On his fatlher's death, in 1880, he succeeded in the Public Analystship of Bristol, which he retained until 1905, and was also appointed Public Analyst for the boroughs of Chard, Salisburj-, and Bridgwater. He lectured for many years on the chemistry of public health and on bacteriology in the Bristol Medical School, and made several useful contributiors to the literature of the analysis of food, drugs, and water.>lost& of his papers were read before the Society of Public Analysts and published in the ANALYST, his perhaps most important contribution to that journal being a bacteriological paper, " On the Separation and Identification of the Typhoid and Colon Bacilli." During later pears, bacteriological processes occupied a large share of his attention, and he devised a successful mechanical apparatus for facilitating the bacterial oxidation and purification of sewage. H e was elected a Fellow of the Societp in 1894. BERXARD DYER. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS.AN ordinary meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday evening, June 6, in the Chemical Society's Rooms, Burlington House. The President, Mr. G. Embrey, 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. C. V. Captain N. M. Comber, B.Sc., A.R.C.Sc., was elected a member of the The following papers were read: " Some Experiences in the L-se of Copper Bacon and X.H. Vakil, B.A., B.Sc., were read for the second time. Society . * Reprinted by permission from the Joirmic7 of the CJie,liic*aZ S o c i ~ t ~ ~ .226 WEBSTER : OPIUM-POISONING : Sulphate in the Destruction of Algs,” by George Embrey, F.I.C.; “Note on Orange-Pip Oil,” by Dorothy G. Hewer, B.Sc. ; ‘* A Combined Reichert-Polenske and Modified Shrewsbury-Knapp Process,” by G. D. Elsdon, B.Sc., F.I.C. ; “ The DiflEerentiation between Coconut and Palm-Kernel Oils in mxtures,” by G. D. Elsdon, B.Sc., F.I.C. ; “Rapid Estimation of the Strength of Sulphuric Acid,” by H. Droop Richmond, F.I.C., and J. E. Merreywether; and a “Note on the Estimation of Theobromine,” by Norah Radford (nie Elliott), B.Sc., and G. Brewer. a a a a a