OCTOBER, 1961 Vol. 86, No. 1027 THE ANALYST PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY ORDINARY MEETING AN Ordinary Meeting of the Society was held on Thursday and Friday, October 5th and 6th, 1961, at The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk, London, S.W.l. The Chair was taken by the President, Dr. A. J. Amos, F.R.I.C. The following papers were presented and discussed: “Studies of the Boron - Curcumin Complex and its use in Trace Boron Analysis,” by M. R. Hayes, A.R.I.C., and J. Metcalfe, B.Sc.; “Applications of Micro-coulometry,” by R. G. Monk, A.R.C.S., D.I.C., Ph.D., K. C. Steed and G. C. Goode, B.Sc., A.R.I.C.; “The Gravimetric Determination of Uranium as the Phosphate,” by J. S. Wright, J. A. Ryan, A.R.I.C., and T. J. Hayes, A.R.I.C.; “A Study of the Determination of Oxygen in Beryllium by Vacuum Fusion,” by M.R. Everett and J. E. Thompson; “The Application of the Conductimetric Method for the Determination of Carbon to Highly Alloyed Steels and the Less Common Metals,” by J. E. Still, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., and I. R. Green, A.R.I.C.; “The Identification and Determination of Foreign Phases and Constituents in Metals, with Special Reference t o Beryllium,” by H. P. Rooksby, BSc., F.Inst.P., and I. R. Green, A.R.I.C. ; “Developments in Emission Spectrography Arising from the Routine Determination of the Isotopic Abundance of Uranium,” by R. Franklin and J. R. Hartley, B.Sc. , A.R.I.C. ; “Suspension Scintillation Counting of Carbon-14 Barium Car- bonate,” by H. J. Cluley, Ph.D., F.R.I.C.; “The Use of Isotope Dilution for the Determination of Hydrogen in Metals, with Particular Reference to Alkali Metals,” by C. Evans, B.Sc., Dip.Chem.Eng. , and J. Herrington, B.Sc. ; “Reverse-phase Partition Chromatography,” by T. J. Hayes, A.R.I.C., and A. Hamlin, BSc., F.R.I.C.; “Gas Chromatography in the Analysis of Inorganic Systems,” by T. R. Phillips, Ph.D., B.Sc., and G. Iveson; “The Analysis of Nuclear Reactor Carbon Dioxide for Gaseous Impurities,” by R. M. S. Hall, M.A., A.R.I.C., A.Inst .P. DEATH Thomas Cockburn. WE record with regret the death of 629