APRIL, 1916. Vol. XL., No. 469. THE ANALYST. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTICAL CHEMISTS. AN ordinary meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday evening, March 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.C. W. McHugo, A.I.C., C. J. H. Stock, B.Sc., F.I.C., G. Tate, Ph.D., F.I.C., and T. E. Wallis, B.Sc., F.I.C., were read for the second time; and certificates in favour of Messrs. Paul Seidelin Arup, B.Sc. (Lond.), A.I.C., A.C.G.I., 31, St. Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, W., chief chemist to the Aylesbury Dairy Company Ltd.; Alexander Scott Dodd, B.Sc.(Edin.), F.I.C., 20, Stafford Street, Edinburgh, Public Analyst for the City of Edinburgh; Harri Heap, M.Sc. (Vict.), F.I.C., Burnside, Lyndhurst Road, Withington, Manchester, Lecturer in Chemistry, Public Health Department, University of Manchester ; and Francis Howard Carr, F.I.C., Edgmont, Derby Road, Nottingham, Director of Boots’ Pure Drug Company, were read for the first time. Mr. D. Mitchell was elected a member of the Society. The following papers were read: “The Structure of Pepper: Some New Features,” by T. E. Wallis, B.Sc., F.I.C.; “The Soluble Chlorides and Total Chlorine in Some English Cokes,” by S. W. Bridge, B.Sc., F.I.C. ; ‘( The Occurrence of Chlorine in Coal,” by A. de Waele ; and The Routine Detection and Estimation of Boric Acid in Butter,” by H. Hawley, M.Sc., F.I.C.