230 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL [Vol. 75 Annual Report of Council: March, 1950 THE roll of the Society numbers 1547, an increase of 51 over the membership of a year ago. HoNouRs-During the year the C.B.E. has been awarded to Dr. J. R. Nicholls, the O.B.E. to Mr. H. T. Cranfield, and the M.B.E. to Mr. R. L. Collett. Dr. J. H. T. Ellingham has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. The Council offers its congratulations to the recipients of these honours. HONORARY MEMBER-The Council is very pleased to record that Sir E. John Russell, O.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S., has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society. DEATHS-The Council regrets to have to record the death of the following members- C. T. Bennett J. Hendrick W. P. Skertchley W.Rhys Davies Y. V. S. Iyer H. F. Stephenson N. N. Dutta C. H. Robinson R. T. Thomson J. W. Hawley Sir Robert Robertson A. J. de Hailes Sir Robert Pickard Bennett was educated at Wyggeston High School, Leicester, and qualified as a chemist and druggist in 1898 and as a Ph.C. a year later. He entered the service of Wright, Layman & Umney Ltd. in 1898 and remained associated with them as chief analyst until his death. He graduated B.Sc. of the University of London in 1905 and became a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry in 1909; he joined the Society in 1910. He was an expert on the chemistry of essential oils, and served on the sub-committees responsible for these and related substances in the British Pharmacopoeia and the British Pharmaceutical Codex.Rhys. Davies received his scientific training at Bradford City Technical College and at the University of Leeds. He started an analytical and consulting practice in Bradford in 1902 in which he dealt mainly with the problems of the wool industry and later extended his interests to the technology of textiles, oils, fats and waxes. He became a Fellow of the Institute in 1927 and joined the Society in 1!329. de Hailes worked in the laboratories of G. W. Wigner and Dr. Redwood, and mean- while studied physics and chemistry at the Pharmaceutical Society, King’s College (under Professor Hartley), City of London College and the Birkbeck Institution. He set up in private practice in 1885. About 1894 he became assistant to Theophilus Redwood; later he went into partnership with him, and too:k over the practice when Redwood died.He joined the Society in 1889.May, 19501 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 231 Hawley was apprenticed in 1904 to Readman & Gemmell, consulting chemists in Edin- burgh. In 1912 he joined the Glasgow Corporation Chemical Laboratory as assistant to F. W. Harris. In the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned in the Highland Light Infantry and saw service in France. He returned to his work at Glasgow and in 1926 was appointed Public Analyst and Official Agricultural Analyst for Dumfriesshire and later for Kircudbright and Wigtownshire. He served as a member of the Council of the Institute of Chemistry and was a Vice-president of the Society in 194142. He was a founder member and a Chairman of the Scottish Section of the Society.Hendrick joined the Society in 1897 after becoming lecturer in agricultural chemistry in the University of Aberdeen and chemist to the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. He was Public Analyst and Official Agricultural Analyst to a number of local authorities, but resigned these positions in 1912 to become the first Strathcona-Fordyce Professor of Agriculture in the University. On his retirement he received the title of Emeritus Professor, and in the next year the University of Aberdeen honoured him with the degree of LL.D. Robinson, a B.A. of Toronto University and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry, was Dominion Agricultural Chemist for Canada. He joined the Society in 1940. Robertson received his scientific training at the University of St.Andrew’s, becoming M.A. in 1889 and B.Sc. in 1890. He received his doctorate in 1897 and was subsequently made H0n.LL.D. He was for two years assistant to R. R. Tatlock in Glasgow, and in 1892 went to the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey. In 1907 he became superintending chemist in the Chemical Research Department, Woolwich, where he rose to be Director of Explosives Research. He was appointed Government Chemist in 1921, retiring from that post in 1936. Next year he was appointed Director of the Salters’ Institute of Industrial Chemistry. He was elected F.R.S. in 1917, and received the Davy Medal of the Society in 1944. He was President of the Faraday Society, 1923-24, and was created K.B.E. in 1918. He was a Vice-president and Censor of the Institute of Chemistry and an Honorary Member of the Society.Pickard studied under Tilden and Frankland at Mason College, Birmingham, and graduated B.Sc. of the University of London in 1895. Next year he went to Munich to work under A. von Bayer and Thiele and gained the degree of Ph.D. summa czcm Zaude. In 1900 he was awarded the degree of DSc. by the University of London. A year earlier he had been appointed head of the chemical department of Blackburn Municipal Technical College, and in 1905 became its Principal. In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He became Principal of the Battersea Polytechnic in 1920 and in 1927 succeeded A. W. Crossley as Director of the British Cotton Industry Research Association. From 1920 to 1927 he was Director of the British Leather Manufacturers Research Association and he remained consultant to that body until the time of his death.He was elected an Honorary Liveryman of the Leathersellers Company in recognition of his interest in the industry. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, 1937-39, and was elected Chairman of Convocation in 1948. He was President of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, 1936-39, and an Honorary Member of the Society. Skertchley was born at Ambaston, Derby, in 1872, and educated a t St. Andrew’s Church School and London University. He became assistant to Otto Hehner in 1892, joining the Society in the same year, He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry in 1899. For many years he was an abstractor for The Analyst. He assisted Percy Spielman with Richter’s Organic Chemistry.In 1917 he went to British Celanese Ltd., becoming chief analyst in 1920, and held this position until he retired in 1949. He was President of Borrowash Bowls Club for many years. Stephenson was awarded the Associateship of the Royal College of Science in 1889, in which year he became chief assistant to Professor Groves, chemist to the Thames Conservancy. He subsequently succeeded to the office of chemist to the Conservancy and the P.L.A., retiring in 1945. For many years he was analyst to the Rotherhithe Gas Works and to the Acton Urban District Council. Thomson founded, in 1888, with his uncle the late R. R. Tatlock, the firm of Tatlock and Thomson, analytical and consulting chemists, Glasgow. He was the originator of the method for the determination of boric acid by titration in presence of glycerol.He held the appointments of public analyst and official agricultural analyst for many of the Scottish counties. He joined the Society in 1893, and died in his 95th year. He served on the Council of the Society in 1902-03. He was knighted in 1937. He joined the Society in 1910.232 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL p o l . 75 ORDINARY MEETINGS-Five Ordinary Meetings of the Society were held during the year “A Technique for Paper Chromatography iising Volatile Solvents, with Special Reference to the Estimation of Penicillin in a Mixture.” By P. B. Baker, M.P.S., F. Dobson and A. J. P. Martin, M.A., Ph.D. “Penicillin, some Applications of a Chromatographic Technique in Production Control.” By J.W. Albans, B.Sc., A.R.I.C. “Report of the Analysts’ Sub-committee of the Ministry of Health Conference on the Differential Assay of Penicillin.” “The Colorimetric Determination of Streptomycin B (Mannisido-streptomycin).” By W. B. Emery, BSc., F.R.I.C., and A. D. Walker, B.Sc., A.R.I.C. “The Chemical Determination of Nicotinic Acid in Food Products.” By P. 0. Dennis, B.Sc., A.R.I.C., and H. G. Rees, B.!Sc., A.R.C.S., F.R.I.C. “The Reduction of Antimonial Tin Solutions with Metallic Nickel and Cobalt.” By H. Holness, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. “The Calculation of the Botanical Composition of Wheat Flours and Off als from the Chemical Analysis.” “A Photo-electric Method of Determining; the Colour of Flour, as Affected by Grade, by Measurements of Reflecting Power.” By D.W. Kent-Jones, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., and W. Martin, B.Sc. “Experiments in the Photo-electric Recording of Flour Grade by Measurements of the Reflecting Power.” By D. W. Kent-Jones, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., A. J. Amos, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., and W. Martin, BSc. The rheeting held in November dealt with “Some Recent Advances in Water Examination,” the following contributions being made- “Introductory Remarks.” “Recent Developments in the Coli-Aerogenes Test.” By C. B. Taylor, D.Sc. “The Determination of Turbidity.” “The Determination of Residual Chlorine.” By G. U. Houghton, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. “The Determination of Ammonia by Direct Nesslerisation.” By J. E. Houlihan, B.Sc., The February meeting was organised by the Physical Methods Group of the Society The following papers were “A Review of Some Developments in the 1Jse of the Karl Fischer Reagent.” By A.G. Jones, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. “A Radio Frequency Moisture Meter for Routine Control.” By A. T. S. Babb, B.Sc., A.R.I.C. “Moisture Determination of Granulated, Pulverised or Milled Food Materials such as Sugar Products.” By R. W. Money, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. “The Determination of Moisture in Tobacco.” By C. F. M. Fryd, B.Sc., A.R.C.S., A.R.I.C., and P. R. Kiff, B.Sc. An open discussion followed. JOINT MEETINGS-A Joint Meeting was held on October 18th, 1949, with the Agriculture Group of the Society of Chemical Industry and the Fertiliser Society. The subject of the meeting was “Fertiliser Analysis, with Special Reference t o Available Phosphoric Acid.” Contributions were made by Dr.E. M. Crowther, F.R.I.C., Mr. George Taylor, O.B.E., F.R.I.C., Mr. W. C. Hanson and Dr. J. H. Hamence, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. The December meeting of the Society was as usual a Joint Meeting with the Food Group of the Society of Chemical Industry. The subject was “Properties of Pectin and its Use in the Food Industry.” “Chemical Composition and Properties of l?ectin.” By J. K. N. Jones, D.Sc., A.R.I.C. “Laboratory Assessment of Pectin Quality with Special Reference to Jelly Grading.” “Distribution, Sources and Manufacture of Pectin.” By V. L. S. Charley, B.Sc., Ph.D. “Industrial Uses of Pectin.’’ By R. W. Money, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. and the following papers were communicated-- Read by C. R. Bond, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. By J. Straub, Chem.Ing. By J. H. Hamence, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C.By Roy C. Hoather, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. A.R.I.C. and dealt with “Modern Methods of Moisture Determination.” presented- The following contributions were made- By Miss M. Olliver, M.Sc., F.R.I.C.May, 19501 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 233 BERNARD DYER MEMORIAL LECTURE-The first Bernard Dyer Memorial Lecture was given at the Annual General Meeting, 1950, by Sir E. John Russell, O.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.S. The Council of the Society has decided to present Sir John and future memorial lecturers with a commemoration medal. NORTH OF ENGLAND SECTION-Four meetings have been held during the year at which the following contributions have been made- “Chairman’s Address.” “Tests of the British Pharmacopoeia, 1948.” By J. R. Walmsley, A.M.C.T., F.R.I.C., “The Application of Science to the Detection of Crime.” By J.B. Firth, MSc., D.Sc., “The Standardisation of Hortvet Thermometers.” By R. W. Sutton, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., “Notes on Molasses in Grass Meals and Pellets.” In addition there have been a number of discussions on matters of professional and scientific interest. Mr. W. Collingwood Williams, former Lancashire County Analyst, has generously provided the Section with a Chairman’s badge, and the indebtedness of the Society to him is most gratefully acknowledged. SCOTTISH sEcTIoN-In addition to the Annual General Meeting, three ordinary meetings were held during the year. One of the meetings took the form of an Exhibition of Films, presented by Dr. Dryerre. The subjects of the films included “The Making of Sheet Glass,” “Radar Goes to Sea,” “Microscopy of Opaque Objects,” “Refining of Oil,” “Protection of Fruit,” “Transfer of Power” and “Taken for Granted” (Middlesex C.C.sewage disposal plant). At the other two meetings lectures with practical demonstrations were presented, viz.- “Adsorption Chromatography.” “Some Micro Tests.” Although 4 members of the Section were transferred to other Sections and 2 members By C. H. Manley, M.A., F.R.I.C. Ph.C. M.I.Chem.E., F.R.I.C. and J. Markland, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. By F. Robertson Dodd, F.R.I.C. By Dr. Neil Campbell. By Dr. A. B. Crawford. resigned, the membership shows an increase of 14 and now totals 88. MICROCHEMISTRY GRoup-Three meetings have been held during 1949 : in London, Belfast and Nottingham, respectively. The Belfast meeting was held jointly with the Belfast and District Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Nottingham meeting with the East Midlands Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. The following papers have been read- “The Rapid Micro-analytical Determination of Carbon and Hydrogen in Organic Com- “Some Microchemical Problems associated with Plant and Animal Nutrition.” By “The Micro-determination of Oxygen in Organic Compounds.” By W.T. Chambers, “Microchemical Balance Design.” “Maintenance and Precision of Micro-balances.’’ “The Ultra Micro-balance.” There was also an open discussion on B.I.O.S. Final Report No. 1606, prepared by R. Belcher and D. F. Phillips, “Progress in Microchemistry in Germany.” An exhibition of all types of micro-balance manufactured in Great Britain was held at Nottingham. Three meetings will be held during 1950.The Annual General Meeting at London in January, the Spring Meeting at Teddington in May, and the Autumn Meeting at Birmingham in September. The number of Group members is now 309, an increase of 51 since the last report. The Group is now represented on the Analytical Methods Committee of the Society. In future all new Group members are to receive a letter of welcome describing the functions The possibility of compiling a card index showing in some pounds.” Stewart McConaghy. B.Sc., Ph.D., A.R.I.C. By A. F. Colson, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. By G. F. Hodsman, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.Inst.Pet. By D. W. Wilson, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. By C. L. Wilson, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. and activities of the Group.234 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL [Vol.75 detail the special interests of each member has been thoroughly investigated, and it is hoped to have this in operation early in 1950. The Council of the Society has again been approached regarding the Memorandum on the Teaching of Microchemistry which had been submitted through them to the Royal Institute of Chemistry. Although no reply has been received from the R.I.C. on this matter, the whole question of training in analysis is under review by the Council on broad lines in conjunction with the Royal Society, and an assurance has been given that Council will consider the Group Committee’s representations in the light of their own problems. A small Sub-committee has been formed to consider Micro-analytical Reagents in conjunction with British Drug Houses Ltd.Its terms of reference are to eliminate redundant items from the present list of reagents. The Nottingham Symposium on Micro-balances will, by arrangement, be published in extended form by the Royal Institute of Chemistry as a monograph. It has been decided that there should be a second meeting in the London area in 1950, in addition to the Annual General Meeting, and preliminary arrangemeuts have been made to hold this at Teddington, jointly with the London and South-Eastern Counties Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry. PHYSICAL METHODS GROUP-The Physical Methods Group has held four meetings in London and one each in Nottingham and Sheffield during the past year. One of the London meetings and the Sheffield meeting had been organised by the Polarographic Discussion Panel. The Sheffield meeting was held jointly with the Sheffield Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and the Sheffield University Chemical Society.All the meetings were well attended. The Polarographic Discussion Panel, which now has 68 members, organised two Group meetings. Dr. Cule Davies was the Chairman of the Panel and for the greater part of the year Dr. J. E. Page acted as Honorary Secretary. The following papers were read and discussed at meetings of the Group- Annual General Meeting, London, November 30th, 1948. “The Measurement of Colour.” By R. Donaldson, M.A. Rheology Meeting, London, January 25th, 1949. “Industrial Applications of Rheology.” By G. W. Scott Blair, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C.“The Application of Rheological Methods in the Milling and Baking Industries.” By A. J. Amos, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. “The Use of Rheological Tests in the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetical Industries.” By R. H. Marriott, D.Sc., F.R.I.C. “Rheological Methods and their Uses in the Paint Industry.” By P. S. Williams, B.Sc., A.R.C.S. “Recent Modifications in the Spekker Photo-electric Absorptiometer and Fluorimeter. ” “Some Experiments with the Spekker Photo-electric Absorptiometer and Fluorimeter.” “Buffer Solutions and the Concept of Polai-ographic Buffer Capacity.” “Paper Strip Extraction and Polarography.” “The Polarographic Behaviour of Aromatic Nitro-Compounds.” “The Technique of Moving Boundary Electrophoresis.” “Electrophoresis in the Analysis of Serum Proteins.” “The Effect of Antrypol on the Electrophoretic Pattern of Sera.” “Ionophoresis of Amino Acids and Peptides.” Polarography Meeting, Sheffield, October 7th, 1949.“The Use of Polarographic Methods for the Analysis of Fine Chemicals.” Photo-electric Absorptiometer Meeting, London, February 22nd, 1949. By R. A. C. Isbell, A.1nst.P. By F. Wokes, B.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C., and G. Slaughter. B.A., A.1nst.P. Polarography Meeting, London, March llth, 1949. By P. Welford, By J. G. Waller, B.Sc., By J. A. Lewis. A.R.I.C. Electrophoresis Meeting, Nottingham, April lst, 1949. By R. A. Kekwick, D.Sc. By N. H. Martin, M.A., M.B., By A. E. Ambler, M.R.C.P., F.R.I.C. B.Sc., and J. Madinaveitia, Ph.D. By A. J. P. Martin, M.A., Ph.D. By G. H. Osborne, A.R.I.C.May, 19501 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 235 “Applications of Mercury Drop Control to Differential and Derivative Polarography.” By L.Airey, B.Sc., A.R.I.C., and A. A. Smales, B.Sc., A.R.I.C. “Diffusion Current Measurement with the Tinsley Polarograph.” By W. Furness, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. The number of Group members is now 326. This represents a record increase of 76 since the last Annual Report. Dr. Page, who had been Honorary Secretary of the Group since May, 1946, has resigned from this post, and Mr. R. A. C. Isbell has succeeded him. The thanks of the Group and of the Council are extended to Dr. Page for the very excellent work he has done as Honorary Secretary. BIOLOGICAL METHODS GROUP-AS in previous years, the Group has held four meetings for the reading and discussion of papers. On December 17th, 1948, the Annual .General Meeting was followed by an ordinary meeting at which the following papers were presented- “The Assay of Aneurine by the Plate Method.” By A.Jones and S. Morris, DSc. “The Extraction of Growth Factors from Natural Products prior to Microbiological A Joint Meeting with the Agriculture Group of the Society of Chemical Industry was held on February 15th, 1949, on the “Evaluation of Selective Weedkillers.” The following papers were read- “Introduction to the Evaluation of Selective Weedkillers.” By M. A. H. Tincker, “Laboratory Methods and Trials leading up to the Field Use of Selective Weedkillers.” “The Evaluation of Selective Phytocidal Action in Field Trials.” By E. K. Woodford, “The Determination of Selective Weedkillers in Soils, etc.” By J.H. Hamence, MSc., Three papers were read at a meeting on May 26th, as follows- “Use of a Rotating Drum in Assessing the Activities of Paralysant, Convulsant and By H. 0. J. Collier, B.A., Ph.D., E. C. Fieller, M.A., and “The Microbiological Assay of Growth Factors after Paper Chromatography.” By “A Method for Determining the Potency of Heparin.” By R. F. Long, B.Sc., A.R.C.S. A meeting on “Hormone Assay” was held jointly with the Society for Endocrinology After the Assay.” By J. S. Harrison, M.Sc. M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S. By W. G. Templeman, M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Ph.D. Ph.D., F.R.I.C. Anaesthetic Drugs.” R. A. Hall. J. S. Harrison, M.Sc. on October 20th, 1949, under the chairmanship of Professor J. Gaddum, F.R.S. Chairman’s Introduction, the following papers were presented- By H.0. Schild. “General Approach to Biological Assay.” “The Measurement of Thyroidal Activity.” “The Assay of Insulin.” By K. L. Smith. “The Assay of Gonadotrophins.” “The Assay of Posterior Pituitary Lobe Extracts.” “Clinical Methods of Assaying Oestrogens.” By P. M. F. Bishop, B.M., B.Ch., M.R.C.S., In order that the Group may continue to provide a forum for the discussion of a wide range of topics of interest to bio-assayists there is a real need for members to support its activities by submitting research papers and encouraging their colleagues to do so. It is hoped therefore that members will overcome their natural reticence and come forward with communications suitable for ordinary meetings of the Group. Membership of the Group continues to increase, and now stands at 169; 34 new members have been added during the year and there have been no deaths or resignations.ANALYTICAL METHODS CoMMIrrEE-Sub-Committees continue to be very active and considerable work has been done. Progress reports indicate that material for publication should be ready for presentation in the near future. A Report from the Committee on the Evaluation of Flake Tragacanth (Analyst, 1949, By G. F. Somers, Ph.D., Ph.C. By J. A. Loraine, M.B., Ph.D., M.R.C.P. By G . A. Stewart, B.Sc. L.R.C.P., B.A., D.M.236 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL [Vol. 75 p. 2) and a note on the Determination of Riboflavine by Chemical Means (Analyst, 1949, p. 528) have been published. A new Sub-committee has been formed to investigate the Determination of Egg Yolk Solids in Salad Cream and a Sub-committee is to explore and report on the best procedure for securing the production in this country oi an efficient fluorimeter suitable for analytical purposes.The Bibliography of Standard Methods of Analysis, prepared by a Sub-committee of the Analytical Methods Committee, has been completed and is in the hands of the printers. PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OFFICIAL AGRICULTURAL ANALYSTS COMMITTEE-The Committee have met on four occasions during the past year. Many matters of domestic interest to Public Analysts have been discussed and infclrmation circulated to members. Questions of fees and service conditions have also been considered. Awongst the various activities in relation to other bodies, the Milk (Special Designation) Bill was considered and representations were made thereon to the Ministry of Health.Representations have been made to the Ministry of Food on various matters. Advice on problems connected with food has been given to the County Councils Association. Two members of the Committee have been appointed particularly to assist the County Councils Association in this matter. Representations have also been made to the Royal Institute of Chemistry in respect of certain circulars issued by a Provincial Supervisor of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Members of the Committee have attended on a number of occasions at the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and have participated in discussions arising on the testing of commercial petrol under the Motor Spirit Regulations.LIAISON COMMITTEE-During the year thie following appointments have been made- Dr. G. W. Ferguson and Mr. W. M. Seaber, additional members of the Essential Oils Miss I. H. Hadfield and Dr. G. H. Wyatt, Filtration Apparatus Committee. Mr. S. Dixon, Standards of Cleanliness for Hessian Committee. Dr. J. G. A. Griffiths, Committee on Chemical Symbols and Abbreviations. Mr. W. H. Simmons, Committee on Soaps for Domestic Use. Mr. E. S. Hawkins, Committee for Stand.ardisation of the Orsat Apparatus. Dr. K. A. Williams and Mr. J. King, Oils, Fats, Greases and Soaps Industry Standards Dr. W. Mitchell, Committee on Tragacanth. Mr. W. H. Simmons, Ministry of Healthi, Advisory Committee on Detergents. Dr. J. G. A. Griffiths was re-appointed to represent the Society on the Joint Library Committee of the Chemical Society. Mr.C. H. Manley was appointed as representative of the Society on the County Advisory Committee (West Riding North) of the Yorkshire Council for Further Education. Dr. W. F. Elvidge reported that the Regional Advisory Council for Further Education in the East Midlands, on which he represents the Society, was extremely active during the year and was performing a very useful service. Many other reports were received from the representatives of the Society, and the Council takes this opportunity of thanking all its representatives for the work they have carried out on the various Committees on behalf of the Society. HONORARY TREASURER’S REPORT-For the last two years the Society’s accounts have shown a substantial loss on the year’s working, and for the first time in the history of the Society it has been found necessary to increase the membership subscription. This increase in subscription has been occasioned mainly by the heavy increase in the cost of producing The Analyst, and also by the increased expenditure which has been necessitated by the considerable advance in recent years of the Scciety’s activities.The decision of the Council to increase the subscription to two guineas is based upon the report of the Sub-committee which was set up to consider the finances and the future developments of the Society, and it is hoped that it will cover not only the imreased cost of The Analyst and the working B.S. I. Committees- Committee. Committee. 0 ther Committees-May, 19501 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 237 expenses of the Society, but will also leave a small balance which can be utilised for future developments. THE ANALYST-Considerable difficulties were experienced early in 1949 in publishing The Analyst within a reasonable time of its proper publication date; and a very determined effort was initiated to ameliorate the situation.This has had a great deal of success, but a little more time must elapse before we can ensure publication on the 16th of each month. The Council of the Society approved far-reaching changes which have operated from the beginning of 1950. Of these the most noticeable is the disappearance of the abstracts section. As was indicated in the editorial article prefaced to the January issue of the journal, it is no longer justifiable to devote the necessary labour, expense and printing space to the production of working abstracts which cannot perform for modern methods of analysis what the same system achieved for the classic techniques. In place of our old system, members and subscribers will be supplied with Abstracts C, less detailed in nature, but covering a far wider field than The Analyst has ever before reviewed.The thanks of the Council have been conveyed to all the abstractors and to Mr. L. S. Theobald for the great work they have done in the preparation of Analyst abstracts in the past, and also to the members of the panel of the Publication Committee who have advised during the last few years on the suitability of original papers for abstracting in The Analyst. The Council has subscribed to the Royal Society’s Fair Copying Declaration so that photo-copies of original papers which have appeared in The Analyst may become obtainable from libraries.In accordance with the wishes of the Royal Society we have adopted the system of placing a synopsis of each paper at its head. THE NAME OF THE SocIETY-The Council has given earnest consideration to the replies made by members to the questionnaire circulated last year on this subject. It was clear from these that a majority was in favour of a change of the name of the Society. We were advised however that such a change would require a Special Resolution passed a t an Extra- ordinary General Meeting by a three-fourths majority. Until then the idea of a change of the name had been thought necessarily to involve some modification of the objects of the Society by either the deletion or the alteration of Clauses 3 (c) and 3 (D) of the Memorandum of Association.The Council decided by a large majority that such deletion or alteration was not desirable, and that whatever the name they would continue to look after the pro- fessional interests of members. It was believed that uncertainty on this issue had influenced the answers of some members to the questionnaire, and the Honorary Secretary was instructed to call an Extraordinary General Meeting at which the Council would recommend changing the name to “The Society for Analytical Chemistry” so that the true verdict of the members could be obtained. This meeting was duly held in September last; including proxy votes, 253 votes were cast in favour of the change and 164 against.The majority in favour of a change was thus not high enough for the Resolution to be passed as a Special Resolution, and the name of the Society remains unchanged. considering the Memorandum and Articles of Association recommended to the Council that alterations should be made in the procedure for electing new members of the Society, in the composition of the Council and in the procedure for the nomination of ordinary members of the Council and for their election. These recommendations were adopted by the Council, which, in turn, recommended them to Extraordinary General Meetings, where they were adopted by large majorities. It is intended that the amendments should be incorporated in a reprint of the Memorandum and Articles to be sent to all members.ORGANISATION-A Special Committee was appointed during the year to consider the future organisation of The Analyst and of the office of the Society. So far as The Analyst was concerned it recommended that, starting with the January, 1950, issue, abstracts should no longer be published in the journal, but that arrangements should be made for the supply of Abstracts C to all members. Conversations with the Bureau of Abstracts, made with the approval of the Council, led to such an arrangement being agreed upon and extended to cover the supply of these abstracts to all subscribers to The Analyst as well. On the suggestion of the Bureau, the Council has nominated a representative to sit as a Director on the Bureau and it has also nominated two representatives to sit on the Abstracts C Committee.MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION-The Special Committee which had been238 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL [Vol. 75 The Council adopted a recommendation that an Assistant Editor should be appointed to assist Mr. Lane, and that Mr. Okell should be asked to continue his services on the Editorial staff. Mr. Attrill has been appointed as Assistant Editor, and Mr. Okell has been Acting Editor since Mr. Lane was ordered complete rest for a time. The recommendation was also adopted that Miss Wilson be appointed Secretary from the beginning of 1950, the appointment to appear in The Analyst. The Special Coimmittee made recommendations which were amended only to a very small extent by the Finance Committee, whose final form of them was adopted by the Council.These recommendations included the increase in subscription noted above and the increase in the cost of The Analyst to outside subscribers. The Honorary Treasurer’s budget, which he had made for the convenience of the Special Committee, was reviewed and accepted by the Council. The funds of the Analytical Investigation Scheme (amounting to some fT240) were made available by the Council in grants to Sub-committees of the Analytical Methods Committee for out-of-pocket expenses in connection with their work, and the name of the scheme was changed to the “Analytical Investigation Fund.” Council further decided to apply a sum of money handed to the Society by the late Dr.C. A. Mitchell, and now known as the Miss Elliott Fund, to purchase some article such as a piece of furniture which might serve as a memorial to Miss Elliott. It was decided that no general payments should be made to members of Committees and Sub-committees (apart from those of the Groups) to cover travelling expenses, though special cases might be dealt with on their merits. Tentative negotiations were started by the Special Committee, with the approval of the Council, for obtaining new office accommodation. PLACE OF ORDINARY MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY-During the spring of 1949 the Society continued to meet in a number of different places in London, but an invitation was received in the summer from the Chemical Society for us to avail ourselves again of their Rooms in Burlington House.This was gratefully accepted by the Council, and meetings have been held there since October, as in the past. CHEMICAL CouNcIL-The Council of the Society gave sympathetic consideration to a letter received from the Chemical Council whic:h laid emphasis on the importance of obtaining the publication of short articles on chemical topics in the more prominent weekly papers as well as in some of the more important daily papers. The President retired from representing the Society on the Chemical Council in December, 1949, and Dr. J. H. Hamence was appointed in his place. The Council again made a grant to the Society towards the cost of The Analyst, for which the Council of the Society expresses its gratitude. An endeavour is being made by the Chemical Council to ensure that all societies represented on it draft their accounts in the same manner, so that they may easily be collated. It appears that our own accounts are already in the desired form.INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY-The Executive Committee set up last year to organise an International Congress in 1952, and referred to in the last Annual Report, has made considerable progress during the year. An approach has been made to the Council of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry for its patronage. This was accorded at the meeting of the Union in Amsterdam in September, where six autonomous sections of the International Union were formed, one of which was concerned with analytical chemistry. It is regarded as likely that a meeting of the Board of this section can be arranged to coincide with the Congress.It is expected that the Congress will meet in Oxford during the second week of September, 1952. The Chairman of the Executive Committee is Mr. George Taylor, the President of the Society, and its Honorary Secretary is Mr. R. C:. Chirnside. Sir Wallace Akers has consented to act as Chairman of the Finance Committee, and Sir Robert Robinson, President of the Royal Society, continues to act as Chairman of the General Committee, and to show his interest in the successful outcome of the organisers’ efforts. TRAINING IN ANALYSIS-The Royal Society received the Report on Training in Analysis, sent to them by the Society at the end of our last year, with considerable interest; and they passed it on to the Council of the Chemical Society who appointed a special committee to consider the memorandum.The following detailed comments have been passed to the Council of the Society by the Royal Society. “The large part that has been played by analysis in the building of the present structure of chemistry is recognised. It is considered desirableMay, 19501 ANNUAL REPORT OF COUNCIL 239 that in each large University there should be one member of the Faculty who would interest himself in analytical work and give lectures on the various methods of analysis. It was thought that the establishment of a Chair of Analytical Chemistry would not by itself be the best way of raising the standard of analytical work in the country and preference was given to possible improvement in the equipment in the Universities, etc., especially of physico- chemical analytical apparatus.The advantage was recognised of letting students see and handle some of the specialised equipment. It was recommended that methods of analysis should be integrated into the general course at the Universities, and emphasis was laid on the necessity for insistence on accuracy at all stages, including that of secondary school education. The further advantage of making problems realistic was dwelt on. It was hoped that the Society might suggest analytical subjects for post-graduate research.” During the year members of the Society have undertaken the task of lecturing on a wide variety of analytical subjects to post-graduate students at a number of educational establish- ments, and it has become evident that their efforts have been appreciated. It is hoped that this work may be extended in the near future.WATER ANALYSIS-A Joint Committee, set up by the Institution of Water Engineers, on which Mr. S. E. Melling and Dr. J. H. Hamence represent the Society, has issued a report in which standard methods of analysis of water are detailed. These methods will be con- sidered for adoption by the Society as standard methods after twelve months. PRESERVATIVE REGULATIONS-During the year a Joint Committee of the Society and the Food Group of the Society of Chemical Industry was set up to consider the Preservative Regulations made by the Ministry of Health in 1925-27, which have been in existence for nearly 25 years with only slight modifications. This Committee has reported, and the Council of the Society and the Committee of the Food Group have adopted the report.The Joint Committee remarks that it is clear that in the period for which the Regulations have operated many developments have taken place in food manufacture and processing which could not have been foreseen when the Regulations were made; and these make it essential that the definition of the term “preservative” should be amended, and the application of the Regulations more precisely defined. It is admitted that it will be difficult to draw up a definition that would be generally and permanently applicable, and it is recognised that it is necessary that a more detailed schedule than now exists should be drawn up and that this schedule should be kept constantly under review. The Joint Committee has made detailed suggestions for the amendment of the Regulations. The report, as adopted, has been sent on behalf of the Society and the Food Group to the Ministries of Food and Health. the Society on this Committee, reports that it has met four times since he was appointed, and has been concerned with the XVth Conference of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, held at Amsterdam in September, 1949, and the decision to hold an International Congress on Analytical Chemistry in this country in 1952. At Amsterdam, the International Union organised itself into six autonomous sections, one of which deals with Analytical Chemistry, and this section now comprises those Commissions which are interested in branches of this aspect of chemistry. Mr. N. Strafford and Mr. R. C. Chirnside have been elected members of the Board of the section. SUMMER SCHOOL IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY-The London Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry has organised a Summer School in Analytical Chemistry to be held in London in the late summer of this year. The Council is pleased to record that it was invited to participate in the preliminary arrangements by the Committee of the London Section, and that it accepted the invitation. Attendance at the School has been confined to members of the Society and members of the Royal Institute. A very gratifying response to the anno**- fiamnn + of the project has been received. BRITISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CHEMISTRY-Dr. A. M. Ward, the representative Of GEORGE TAYLOR, President. K. A. WILLIAMS, Honorary Secretary.