AUGUST, 1961 Vol. 86, No. 1025 THE ANALYST PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY NEW MEMBERS ORDINARY MEMBERS David Voil Anders, B.S.Ch.E. (Indiana) ; John Waite Atkinson, B.Sc. (Leeds) ; Geoffrey David Brown, B.Sc. (Lond.), A.R.I.C. ; Lewis Edwin Coles, B.Pharm. (Wales), Ph.D. (Lond.), F.P.S., F.R.I.C. ; Geoffrey Leonard Cook; Rommary Donnellan, B.Sc. ; Philip Richard Falkner, M.A. (Cantab.), A.R.I.C. ; Desmond John Ferrett, M.A., D.Phi1. (Oxon.) ; Kenneth Field, M.Sc., Ph.D. (Manc.) ; Phyllis Marjorie Ganvood, B.Sc. (Wales), A.R.I.C.; Eric Stanley Goodwin, A.R.I.C. ; George Rowland Edwin Constantin Gregory; Roland Sydney Hannan, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.) ; Denis Hardcastle, M.Sc.Tech. (Manc.) ; Peter James Kipping, B.Sc. (Lond.); Barry Lightfoot; Chin Kuan Lim, M.Sc.(Malaya), P.A.I.W.E., F.R.I.C.; Gaston Lennox Stephen Pawan, B.Sc. (Lond.), M.I.Bio1.; Robert John Wale Powell, B.Sc. (Lond.) ; John Roburn, BSc. (Lond.), BSc. (Nott.) ; Norman Mark Silverstone; David Cyril Thomas, M.Sc. (Wales) ; Joseph Francis Charles Tyler, B.Sc. (Lond.), A.R.I.C. ; John Albert George Vidler, A.R.I.C. ; Keith Hastings Wall, B.Sc., A.R.I.C. ; John Reeve White, B.Sc. (Lond.) ; John Patterson Whitworth; Paul Woodford, BSc. (Lond.). JUNIOR MEMBERS David William Allen; David Betteridge, B.Sc., Ph.D. (Birm.). DEATH WE record with regret the death of Charles Harcourt Wordsworth. NORTH OF ENGLAND SECTION THE twenty-fourth Summer Meeting of the Section was held at the Prince of Wales Hotel, Scarborough, from Friday, June 9th, to Monday, June 12th, 1961.The Chairman of the Section, Mr. J. Markland, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., presided over an Ordinary Meeting at 10.15 a.m. on Saturday, June loth, at which Dr. H. A. Thomas gave a lecture (illustrated by a sound film) entitled “Automation.” On the Saturday evening, the party saw the show at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough, and on the Sunday afternoon made a coach tour, taking tea at Ravenscar. WESTERN AND MIDLANDS SECTION A JOINT Summer Meeting of the Western and Midlands Sections was held on Friday and Saturday, May 26th and 27th, 1961, in Hereford. On the afternoon of Friday, May 26th, a visit was paid to the Cider Factory of Messrs. H. P. Bulmer & Co. Ltd. At 7 p.m. a meeting was held in the Town Hall, at which the Chair was taken by the Chairman of the Western Section, Dr.G. V. James, M.B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.I.C. A film on “An Introduction to Ion Exchange’’ was shown and the following paper was presented: “The Application of Ion Exchange Resins to Metallurgical Analysis,” by J. R. Millar, M.A., F.R.I.C. On Saturday there was a coach tour of the Vale of Evesham and an informal dinner at the Green Dragon Hotel in the evening. 493494 PROCEEDINGS [Vol. 86 MICROCHEMISTRY GROUP THE thirtieth London Discussion Meeting of the Group was held at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, June Zlst, 1961, at “The Feathers,” Tudor Street, London, E.C.4. The Chair was taken by the Chairman of the Group, Mr. C. Whalley, BSc., F.R.I.C. The subject for discussion was “Quantitative Paper Chromatography,” which was opened as follows: “Inorganic,” by E. C. Hunt, B.Sc.; “Organic,” by D. Gross, Ph.D. BIOLOGICAL METHODS GROUP THE Summer Meeting of the Group was held on Friday, June 9th, 1961, and took the form of a visit to Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd., Nottingham. In the morning a tour was made of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Factories and after lunch a visit was made to the Biological Laboratories. Twenty-nine members and friends attended and their thanks to the Company were proffered by Mr. J. S. Simpson, F.I.M.L.T., Chairman of the Group.