THE ANALYST. JANUARY, 1904. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS. THE monthly meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday evening, December 2, in the Chemical Society’s Rooms, Burlington House, The President, Mr. Thomas Fairley, occupied the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. John Hughes and Mr. W. P. Skertchly were appointed to act as auditors of the Society’s accounts for the year 1903. certificates of proposal for election to membership in favour of Messrs. F. Hud- son-Cox, N. van Laer, J. S. Maclaurin, D.Sc., and T. R. Nightscales, were read for the second time; and certificates in favour of Messrs. Frank Eustace King, B.Sc. (Lond.), A.I.C., ‘‘ Woodbury,” Polworth Road, Streatham, assistant to Dr. Bernard Dyer ; and William Herbert Simmons, ( ( Oakleigh,” Stoke Newington Common, N., assistant chemist to the Vinolia Company, Ltd., were read for the first time. Messrs. H. Harman and C. J. Waterfall were elected members of the Society. The following papers were read: ‘( The Characteristics of some Almond and Allied Oils,” by J. Lewkowitsch, M.A., Ph.D. ; ‘: Note on the Examination of Sperm Oil,” by L. Myddelton Nash; and “The Estimation of Aldehydes and Ketones in Essential Oils,” by Herbert E. Burgess. The President showed some photographs taken by and illustrating the pene- trative power of the rays emitted by radium.