MARCH, 1958 Vol. 83, No. 984 THE ANALYST PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY NEW MEMBERS ORDINARY MEMBERS Derek Abson, B.Sc. (Birm.) ; Patrick Kieran Hanley, hl.Sc. (N.U.I.), H.Dip.Ed. ; Clive Holy- field; Charles Abell Horton, A.B. (Cornell), Ph.D. (Michigan) ; Maurice Jones; David Courtenay Newton, B.Sc. (Lond.) ; Patrick Noel O’Donoghue, B.Sc. (N.U.I.), A.R.I.C. ; Harold Kingsley Packer, M.A., B.Sc. (Oxon.), Dip.Chem.Eng. (Lond.) , A.M.I.Chem.E., A.R.I.C., A.M.1nst.F. ; Ronald James Starkey, A.R.I.C. ; Joseph Martin Stepanek, Dipl.Eng., Dr.T.Sc. (Prague) ; Leslie Norwood Stuffins, A.R.I.C. ; Hubert Morris Thompson, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Liv.), F.K.I.C. ; Keihei Ueno, Dr.Eng. (Kyushu) ; Gerrit Jan Van Kolmeschate, Dr.Phil.Nat. (Utrecht) ; Arthur Donald Walsh, M.A., Ph.D.(Cantab.), F.R.I.C. ; Patricia Olive Whitmore, B.Sc. (Lond.). JUNIOR MEMBERS James Frederick Marten, A.R.I.C. DEATHS WE record with regret the deaths of Julian Levett Baker Alfred Scholes William Henry Woodcock. NORTH OF ENGLAND SECTION THE thirty-third Annual General Meeting of the Section was held at 2.15 p.m. on Saturday, January 25th, 1958, at the Engineers’ Club, Albert Square, Manchester. The Chairman of the Section, Mr. A. N. Leather, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., presided. The following appointments were made for the ensuing year :-Chairman-Mr. A. N. Leather. Vice-Chairman-Dr. J. R. Edisbury. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer-Mr. A. C. Wiggins, J. Lyons & Co. Ltd., 5 Laurel Road, Liverpool, 7. Members of Committee-Messrs. A. A. D. Comrie, L. R. Flynn, C. J.House, B. Hulme, A. 0. Jones and R. Mallinder. Messrs. F. Dixon and T. W. Lovett were re-appoin t ed Hon. Auditors. The Annual General Meeting was followed by an Ordinary Meeting of the Section, at which a paper entitled “Micro-organisms in Analytical Chemistry’’ was given by S. A. Price, BSc., F.R.I.C. SCOTTISH SECTION THE twenty-third Annual General Meeting of the Section was held at 1.30 p.m. on Friday, January 24th, 1958, at the Rhul Restaurant, 123 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. The Chairman of the Section, Dr. Magnus Pyke, F.R.I.C., F.R.S.E., presided. The following office bearers were elected for the forthcoming year :-Chairman-Dr. Magnus Pyke. Vice-Chairman- Mr. A. N. Harrow. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer-Mr. J. A. Eggleston, Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., Airdrie Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire.Members of Committee-Messrs. D. M. W. Anderson, R. A. Chalmers, R. Kerr, H. C. Moir, J. W. Murfin and A. D. Walsh. Messrs. J. Andrews and J. McL. Malcolm were re-appointed as Hon. Auditors. 121122 SUTCLIFFE AND PEAKE : THE SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION [VOl. 83 The Annual General Meeting was followed ‘by an Ordinary Meeting of the Section, at which a paper entitled “Micro-organisms in Analytical Chemistry” was given by S. A. Price, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. WESTERN S‘ECTION THE third Annual General Meeting of the Section was held at 12 noon on Saturday, January l l t h , 1958, in the Davy House, College of Technology, Ashley Down Road, Bristol. The Chairman of the Section, Mr. P. J. C. Haywood, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., presided. The following appointments were made for the ensuing year :--Chairman-Mr. S. Dixon. Vice-Chairman -Dr. G. V. James. Hon. Secretary and Treasurer-Dr. T. G. Morris, Brockleigh, Clevedon Avenue, Sully, Glamorgan. Members of Committel~-Messrs. R. G. H. B. Boddy, R. C. Curtis, P. J. C, Haywood, C. H. Manley, J. A. Pickard and G. F. Price. Mr. R. E. Coulson and Dr. 2. Hybs were re-appointed as Hon. Auditors. The Annual General Meeting was followed by an Ordinary Meeting of the Section, which took the form of a discussion on “Perpetuation o:f Errors in Text Books.’’ MIDLANDS SECTION AN Ordinary Meeting of the Section was held at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, Feburary 13th, 1958, in the Mason Theatre, The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, 3. The Chair was taken by the Chairman of the Section, Dr. R. Belcher, F.R.I.C., F.1nst.F. The following paper was presented and discussed : “Nuclear Magnetic Resonance,” by I). H. Whiffen, D.Phi1.