102 THE ANALYST. THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. THE twenty-sixth Annual Geqeral Meeting of the Insbitute of Chemistry was held at 30, Bloomsbury Square on Tuesday, March 1, Mr. David Howard, President, in the chair. The annual accounts, with the report of the auditors, having been submitted by Mr. A. Gordon Salamon, Hon. Treasurer, and duly received, Professor TILDEN moved the adoption of the annual report of the Council, at the same time comment- ing on the general progress of the Institute. He considered it satisfactory to note that notwithstanding the increasingly stringent regulations a8 to training, the very high standard of the examinations, and in spite of the loss of members by death, the number of Fellows and Associates-viz., 1,098-was 251 higher than in 1894.He also commented on the scheme for the promotion of the better training of technical chemists now under the consideration of the Council. Mr. FRISWELL seconded the report, which was then adopted. The ballot for the election of Censors having been taken, Dr. Thomas Stevenson, Professor J. Millar Thomson, Professor W. A. Tilden, and Dr. J. A. Voelcker were declared elected. The meeting proceeded to appoint Ron. Auditors, and Messrs. A. R. Ling, C. H. Cribb, and R. E. Alison were appointed. The P~SIDENT then delivered his address, in which he commented on the work of the Council during the past year, on the present position of the Imtitute, and on the work the Council at present have in hand. He reported that the number of candidates for the examinations continued to increase, and that it had been found necessary to make arrangements for holding an extra, examination in April of this year, in order to avoid an excess of candidates in July.The Council, with the help of the new Treasurer, had given particular attention to the finances of the Institute. The heavy expenditure on examinations had rendered it necessary to raise the fees, but the Council had given time for students already in course of training to become registered under the lower fees. The alterations would not be such as to impose a great hardship on the individual candidate, and yet by the time the new regulations were in full operation the fees received would probably meet the cost of the examina- tions. It had always been felt that the maintenance of the efficiency of the examinations was a primary duty of the Institute, and in endeavouring to organize the profession, by bringing together the properly trained and competent, it had been necessary for the Institute to afford all possible facilities for this object.The principal duty of the Institute waa to promote the better education and examination of Public and Technical Analysts. Mr. Howard showed how the Institute had carried out this object in promoting the better educa- tion of professional chemists generally and Public Analysts in particular. He men- tioned incidentally that from carefully collected information he had ascertained that in England and Walee 93.5 per cent., in Scotland 89.5 per cent., and in Ireland 84.7 per cent. of the appointments as Public Analysts under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts were held by Fellows and Associates of the Institute.However, no special provision had hitherto been made in respect to the training and examination Hitherto they had been conducted at a heavy loss.TEE ANALYST. 103 of technical chemists, and the Council were at the present time paying particular attention to this matter. An outline of the proposed scheme had been published in the Proceedings, and details would be published shortly. The special committee which had the matter in hand would hold a conference during the present year with manufacturers and others interested in the progress of scientific industries. The difficulty was to bridge over the gap between the scientific training and the practicd work of the technical chemist; he had to learn to think in tons instead of grammea The whole question would require most careful consideration, but it was hoped that the Institute would be able to afford assistance in overcoming the difficulty. The officers and members of Council for the ensuing year were duly elected as follows : President: David Howard.Vice-presidents : George Beilby ; Frederick Daniel Chattaway, M.A., D.Sc. ; Percy Faraday Frtmkland, Ph.D., F.R.S. ; Edmund Albert Letts, D.Sc. ; Edmund James Mills, D.Sc., F.R.S. ; John Millar Thomson, LL.D., F.R.S. Ron. Treasurer ; Alfred Gordon Salamon, A.R.S.M. Members of Cou~zciE: Alfred Henry Allen ; Leonard Archbutt ; Edward John Bevan ; Bertram Blount ; Horace T. Brown, LL.D., F.R.S. ; James Cameron ; Alfred Chaston Chapman ; Edwy Godwin Clayton ; James Kear Colwell ; Edward Divers, M.D., F.ES. ; James Johnstone Dobbie, M.A., D.Sc. ; Bernard Dyer, D. Sc. ; Thomas Fairley ; Richard John Friswell ; Arthur George Green ; Alfred John Greenaway ; Oscar Guttmann ; Henry James Helm, I.S.O. ; Herbert Jackson ; William Walker James Nicol, M.A., D.Sc. ; Frederic James Montague Page, B.Sc., A.R.S.M. ; William Jackson Pope, F.R.S. ; Alexander Scott, D.Sc., F.R.S. ; David Alexander Sutherland ; Leo Taylor ; Edward William Voelcker, A.R.S.M. ; Sydney Young, D.Sc., F.R.S.