DECEMBER, 1915. Vol. XL., No. 477. THE ANALYST. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS. AN ordinary meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday evening, November 3, in the Chemical Society’s Rooms, Burlington House. The President, Mr. A. Chaston Chapman, 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.A. S. Carlos, B.Sc., A.I.C., and E. K. Rideal, B.A., Ph.l)., A.I.C., were read for the second time ; and certificates in favour of Messrs. Thomas Featherstone Harvey, 69, North Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham, chief analyst to Messrs. Boots’ Pure Drug Co., Ltd. ; Cyril Hubert Manley, B.9. (Oxon), A.I.C., 292, Iffley Road, Oxford, assistant to Mr.W. W. Fisher, M.A., F.I.C. ; Gary1 Cameron Roberts, M.A. (Cantab.), A.I.C., Watling Chambers, Canterbury, analytical chemist ; and Frank Thomas Shutt, M.A., D. Sc. (Toronto), F.I.C., Experimental Farm, Ottawa,, Canada, Dominion Chemist, were read for the first time. Messrs. A. W. Crossley, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C. ; D. J. Davies, B.Sc.; M. 0. Forster, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C.; Herbert Jackson, F.I.C.; J. C. Philip,M.A., D.Sc., Ph.D.; W, J. Pope, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., F.I.C.; F. I. Richardson, B.A. ; and G. H. Warburton, were elected members of the Society. The following papers were read : (6 Note on the Melting-Point of Salicylic Acid, and a test for the presence of Para-Hydroxybenzoic Acid,’’ by Henry L.Smith, B.Sc., F.I.C. ; and ‘( The Persistence of Hydrogen Peroxide in Milk,” by Edward Hiuks, B.Sc., F.I.C. A number of exhibits of glass and porcelain apparatus and of filter-paper, of English manufacture, were shown by Messrs. Baird and Tatlock, Ltd., London, Messrs. Townson and Nercer, Ltd., The British Laboratory Ware Association, Messrs. Doulton and Co., Ltd., and Messrs. W. and R. Balston, Ltd.482 HINKS: THE PERSISTENCE OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN MILK OBITUARY. WE greatly regret to record the death, on November 16, of Professor Raphael Meldola, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., an honorary member of the Society. An obituary notice will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal.