No. 61 November, I958 THE SOCIETY FOR ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY BULLETIN FORTHCOMING MEETINGS Joint Meeting of the Society with the Association of Public Analysts, December 3rd, 1958 A JOINT Meeting of the Society and the Association of Public Analysts will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3rd, 1958, in the Wellcome Building, Euston Road, London, N.W.1. The meeting will take the form of a Symposium on “Food Analysis.” Afternoon Session: 3 p.m. The following papers will be presented and discussed- “The Determination of Chemical Antioxidants in Fats after Separation by Partition Chromatography,” by K. G. Berger, M.A., N. D. Sylvester, MSc., F.R.I.C. and Miss D. M. Haines, B.Sc. “The Estimation of Egg in Certain Foods by Enzymic Hydrolysis of the Phospholipids,” by C. B.Casson, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. and F. J. Griffin, B.Sc., A.R.I.C. Evening Session: 5.15 p.m. To be opened by J. R. Nicholls, C.B.E., D.Sc., F.R.I.C. Under the general heading “The Identification of Coal Tar Colowing Matters in Food- stuffs,” two papers will be presented by P. s. Hall, B.Sc., F.R.I.C. and R. C. Spalding, M.A., A.R.I.C., and will be discussed. Joint Meeting of the North of England Section and the Northpancashire Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, December 4th, 1958 A JOINT Meeting of the North of England Section and the North Lancashire Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry will be held at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, December 4th, 1958, at the Storey Institute, Meeting House Lane, Lancaster. The following paper will be presented and discussed- “Recent Advances in Polarography and Some Other Electrical Methods,” by G.F. Reynolds, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. Joint Meeting of the Western Section with the Cardiff and District Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, December 19th, 1958 A JOINT Meeting of the Western Section with the Cardiff and District Section of the Royal Institute of Chemistry will be held on Friday, December 19th 1958, in Cardiff. The following paper will be presented and discussed- “New Techniques in Qualitative Analysis,” by D. W. Wilson, M.Sc., F.R.I.C. Ordinary Meeting of the Midlands Section, December 9th, 1958 AN Ordinary Meeting of the Section will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9th, 1958, in the Gas Showrooms, Nottingham. The following paper will be presented and discussed- “The Analysis of Tar Acids,” by H.G. Willcock. Ordinary Meeting of the Midlands Section, December 17th, 1958 AN Ordinary Meeting of the Section will be held at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17th, 1958, in the Mason Theatre, The University, Edmund Street, Birmingham, 3. A discussion on “Flame Photometry” will be opened by L. Brealey, BSc.London Discussion Meeting) of the Microchemistry Group, December loth, 1958 THE seventeenth London Discussion Meeting of the Group will be held at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, December loth, 1968, in the restaurant room of “The Feathers.” Tudor Street, off Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. Annual General Meeting of the Biological Methods Group, December 9th, 1958 THE Annual General Meeting of the Group will be held at 6.30 p.m.on Tuesday, December 9th, 1958, in the restaurant room of ?The Feathers,’’ Tudor Street, off Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. The Annual,General Meeting will be followed by a Discussion Meeting of the Group, at which a discussion on “Methodological Reminiscences” will be opened by S. K. Kon, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.I.C. SUMMER SCHOOL IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY August 30th to September 5th, 1959 ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a Summer School in Analytical Chemistry to be held at The School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, London, W.C.l, from August 30th to September 5th, 1959. There will be three separate, but concurrent, courses covering instrumental organic analysis, modern inorganic analysis and gas chromatography. Attendance at the School will be open to Fellows, Associates and Graduate Members of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and Members of the Society for Analytical Chemistry.Full particulars and application forms will be distributed with the January issue of The Analyst. LIBRARY OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY Christmas Closing, 1958 THE Chemical Society has announced that the Library will close at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, December 23rd, 1968, and will reopen at 9.30 a.m. on Monday, December 30th, 1958. COMMUNICATIONS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION IN THE ANALYST THE following communications have been accepted for publication in The A d y s t , and are expected to appear in the near future. “A Simple Spectrophotometric Method for Determining Magnesium, Calcium, Strontium, Barium, Cadmium and Zinc with Ethylenediaminetetra-acetic Acid,” by J. R. Dunstone and E. Payne. “The Determination of Bismuth in Lead and Lead Cable-sheathing Alloys,” by J. H. Thompson and B. W. Peters. “Zone Electrophoresis: Some Basic Considerations in Design,” by N. H. Martin. “Determination of Small Amounts of Triisooctylamine in Aqueous Solution,” by A. W. Ashbrook. “Direct Titration of Hydroxyl Groups with Lithium Aluminium Di-n-Butyl Amide,” by L. A. Small. “A Rapid Micro-method for Carbon Tetrachloride in Blood,” by A. C. Kondos and “The Determination of a-(PChloro-2-methylphenoxy)propionic Acid in Commercial Acid “The Awlysis of Synthetic Detergents. A Review,’’ by W. B. Smith, G. L. 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