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165 PROCEEDINGS AT THE NEETINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Anniversary Meeting March 30 1860. Professor Brodie President in the Chair. The following REPORT mas read by the President :-The number of Fellows of the Chemical Society has during the last year continued to increase; 26 hew Fellows have been elected 3 Fellows have resigned and three have been removed by death. At the last Anniversary Meeting March 1859 The number of Fellows was . . . 302 The increase has been . -21 The number of present Fellows is . . 323 The number of Associates at the last meeting was 9 and 3 have been since elected. It appeared desirable to the Council to connect with the Society a greater number of the distinguished Chemists of foreign countries.The number of foreign members has hitherto been limited to 25. Application was made to the Society for power to increase this number to 40. At the present moment however it has not been thought expedient to add more than 6 names to the list making in all 30 Foreign Members. The names thus added are the well-known names of Berthelot Deville Fre'my Fritzsche Mulder and Peligot. The Council have ever regarded the formation of a Library of Chemical Works as one of the most important objects to which the funds of the Society could be devoted and they are especially desirous to render it at all times accessible and serviceable to the Fellows. They believed that these ends would be promoted by the 166 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICBL SOCIETY. appointmcnt of a permanent Librarian ;this office has been under- taken by Mr.Watts a gentleman vho is familiar with the litera- ture of the science. Mr. Watts is at present engaged in preparing a new catalogue of the books. The following papers have been read at the Meetings of the Society since the Anniversary Meeting of 1859:-<‘ On the action of Boracic Acid upon the salts of the more volatile acids at high temperatures,’’ by Mr. A. Norman Tate. “On Boric and Silicic Acids,” by Dr. Odling. “On the action of Hydrochloric Acid upon Sulphide of Mer-cury in the presence of certain other substances,” by Mr. F. Field. ‘‘On the absorption of Ammonia and Hydrochloric Acid by water,” by Dr. Roscoe. “On Bases produced by Nitrous Substitution,” by Mr.S. C. Wood. “On the commercial estimation of Xitre,J’ by Mr. J. S. Blockley. “ On the manufacture of Sulphate of Copper,” by Mr. J S Block 1ey. ‘I On the saline atomic volume of Lithium,” by DP.Odling. I‘ On the action of Boracic Acid upon the Carbonates of the Alkaline Earthg,” by Prof. B1oxa m. “On the combination of Potassium with Carbonic Oxide,” by Prof. Brodie. “Remarks on the immediate source of the Carbon exhaled by the lungs,” by Dr. Edward Smith. “On the Crystalline Hydrates of Baryta and Strontia,” by Prof. C. L. Bloxam. ‘‘ Description of an hermetically sealed Barometer,” by hlr. Richard Adie. “Note on the purification of Esculin and Paviin,” by Prof. Stokes. ‘I On the action of Pentachloride of Phosphorus on Tartaric Acid,” by Messrs.Perkin mid Duppa. ‘‘On the Vapour-density of Ethylenamine,” by Dr. Hofmann. ‘‘ On the formation of Starch,” by Dr. Moldenhauer. “On the application of Electrolysis to the detection of the poisonous metals in mixtures containing organic matter,” by Prof. Bloxam. ANNIVERSARY MEETING. cc On the Carbonates of Alumina and the Sesquioxides of Chromium and Iron,” by Mr. James Barratt. ‘(On refining Gold when alloyed with Tin or Antimony so as to render it fit for the purposes of Coinage,” by Robert War ‘‘ingt on. On certain sources of loss of precious metal in some opera-tions of assaying,’’ by Mr. G. H. Makins. ‘‘ On an Iron Sand from New Zealand,’s by Dr J €3. Glad-stone. lC On the composition of Air from Mont Blwnc,” by Dr.E. Frank land. ‘(On Biniodacetic Acid,” by Messrs. Perkin and Dappa. cc On some derivatives from the Olefines,” by Dr. Guthrie. On New Zealand Iron Sand,” by Mr. E. Riley. cr On the action of Chloride of Ethyl upon Ammonia,” by Mr. Grooves. The following discourses have been delivered :-I( On Polyatomic Alcohols,’’ by Dr. Debus. cc On Graphite,” by Prof. Brodie. cr On Gas Analysis,” by Prof. Williamson During the present year the Society has lost by death three of its Fellows Xr. Jacob Bell Mr. Reginald Morley and Dr. George Wilson Professor of Technology at Edinburgh. It is the custom to give a brief account of the lives of those Fellows who are thus lost to the Society. Mr. Jacob Bell was born in Oxfordshire in the year 1810.r‘lis father was the founder of the important Pharmaceutical establishment with which his name is thus connected and at 27 years of age he was apprenticed to his father’s firm. In the intervals of business he still found time for self-improvement and attended the lectures on Chemistry at the Royal Institution and on the practice of Physic at King’s College. He had also a de-cided taste for art and received lessons on Painting from his friend the Acadamicittn Mr. H. P. Briggs. This taste led him in later years to acquire a valuable collection of paintings chiefly of the artists of the English school. This collection he bequeathed to the British Nation. As the chief founder of the Pharmaceutical Society Mr. Jacob PROCEEDINGS OF THE CBEMICAL SOCIETY.Bell had the strongest claims to the gratitude of his profession and to the consideration of all interested in the application of Chemical science. The foundation of this Society was decided on at a public meeting held upon the 15th of April 1841; but it was at meetings held at the house of Mr. Jacob Bell that its constitution may truly be said to have been framed. He was a member of the Council from the Commencement of the Society and rarely allowed any engagement to interfere with his attendance at its meetings. At his death he was its President. He also founded the Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society and Transactions to which he made several literary communications and to the support of which he liberally contributed.These professional labours were not unappreciated by other countries. Mr. Bell was an honorary member of various foreign scientific societies. He was one of the original Fellows of the Chemical Society and also it Fellow of the Linnean and Zoologicd Society and of the Society of Arts. With the view of furthering the interests he had so much at heart Mr. Bell obtained a seat in Parliament and in June 1851 he moved for leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the qualification of Pharmaceutical Chemists and for other purposes connected with Pharmacy which although modified in many important respects from its origirial form passed into law. Towards the end of the year 1858 Mr. Bell’s healtb seriously declined. In the year 1854 owing to his exertions in public speaking he contracted an ulceration of the tongue from which he never thoroughly recovered.His death took place at Tunbridge Wells on Sunday the 12th of June 1859. Mr. Bell’s was an useful and honourable life. He laboured in the most disinterested manner for a period of 18 years to raise the standard of education in his profession and to advance its true interests. Greatly through his efforts relations were established between Practical Pharmacy and Scientific Chemistry which in this country had never before existed and the importance of which no Fellow of this Society can fail to recognize. Robert Reginald Ingharn Morley was horn August 26th 1826. A love of science which was early manifested induced him to enter himself as a student at the Royal College of Chemistry in 1849 where he continued his studies for several years and acted as Senior Assistant to Dr.Hofmann during the Winter Session of 1854. ANNIVERSARY MEETING. In 1851 he communicated a paper to the Chemical Society On Propione the Ketone of Propionic Acid,” and in 1854 com-municated another paper to the Society (in conjunction with Mr. J. S. Abel) “On the action of Iodide of Ethyl on Toluidine.” He was for some time one of the Visitors of the Royal Insti- tution. Circumstances led him to give up the study of Chemistry as a profession and subsequently his declining state of health prevented his making that use of his laboratory which his love of science would have prompted. He died January Ilth 1860 aged 33.George Wilson* waR born in Edinburgh on February 21 1818. His parents observing his quick sensibility and studious habits determined to give him the best education in their power and accordingly he passed through the High School of his native city entered its University in 1833 anc? graduated in medicine six years afterwards. During this time he showed himself a diligent and enthusiastic student of science and his mind was directed more and more towards chemistry. After spending a session in London as assistant to Professor Graham now the Master of the Mirrt he commenced giving public lectnres at Edinburgh. There he was attacked by a severe and lingering illness from which he only recovered after the amputation of his left foot and with a constitution so shattered that he never knew afterwards the blessing of sound health; yet he rose from his sick bed not merely with his former elasticity of spirits and enthusiasm for science but with a still nobler purpose in life for thenceforward religion had the supreme control of his thoughts and actions.He devoted himself to teaching his favourite science first in the School of Arts then in the Veterinary College and in the Extra-academical Medicine School while he pursned various researches and was a frequent writer on philosophical subjects. When it was proposed to form an Industrial Musenm in the Scottish capital he was selected as the Director and to him was entrusted the collection of the specimens and models a task on which he entered con amore and performed well.In 1855 he was also appointed to the newly formed Regius Professorship of Technology ‘and he gave courses of lectures illustrated by the collection he was engaged in amassing. * The obituary notice of Professor Wilson has been kindly communicated by Dr. J. H. Gladstone. 170 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEM.ICAL SOCIETY. But his labours were interrupted by frequent attacks of illness ;his life became every year more precarious; he declined higher honours; and lecturing till within four days of the close of his life he died on November 22 1859. His funeral was a public one attended by multitudes of all classes his fellow-professors and pupils the townspeople who had listened to his popular lectures the artizans whose affections he had won during his technological inquiries and a large number of private friends to whom he was endeared by the freshness of his genius the liveliness and wit of his c$scourse the unselfishness and amiability of his character and the genuineness of his piety.It was as an expounder of science ratlicr than as a discoverer that Dr Wilson excelled; yet exclusive of lectures and larger works he published about thirty papers on subjects connected with Chemistry General Physics or Physiology. Some of these are to be found in our Memoirs or Quarterly Journal others in the Edinburgh Philosophical Transactions or elsewhere. Many of these communications have for theiy object the enforcement and further illustration of the views of other observers and the invent- ing of cruci a1 experiments for deciding between rival hypotheses.He boldly commenced with an Experimental demonstration of the existence of Haloid salts in solution ;” he then exploded the reputed conversion of Carbon into Silic2n; but his most complete research of a chemical nature was that into the occurrence oE Fluorine in the animal vegetable and mineral kingdoms on which he published a series of papers. His researclies on colour-blindness belong of course to another branch of science. IIe was particu- larly fond of tracing the history of iriventions (as that of the air-pump) and he wrote severai monographs on eminent chemists besides his larger work the “Life of Cavendish.” But Profcssor Wilson’s chief strength lay in explaining newly discovered scien- tific truths and rendering them attractive by copious illustrations.Hence his popularity as a lecturer and success as a writer. €€is little book on Chemistry in Chambcrs’s Educational Course has attained a sale of twenty-four thousand ; and his treatise on the Electric Telegraph his “ Fim gate\\ ays of knowledge,” and other small publications have done much to diKusz a taste for cxpcri- mental philosophy. The Society then proceeded to the election of the Council and Officers for the ensuing year (for the List see page 94 of this mlume.) DR. THE TREASURER IN ACCOUNT KITH THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. CR. 1859. A? s. d. 1860. 2 s. d. March 26 To Cash in hand ....................................519 5 4 March 24. By Editor’s Salary .................. 50 0 0 July .. Half-Year’s Dividend on &450 3 per cent . .. ditto Translating ............ 2 5 0 Consols ...................................... 612 3 .. ditto Honorarium ............ 10 0 0 -7 1860. 62 5 0 March. 1* Ditto ditto ditto 679 .. Printing Journal ................................ 2G1 la 4 >’ Sundry Receipts from 25th March. 1859. Librarian’s Salary to 1 Jan. 1860 ......... 15 00 9) 11 to 24th March. 1860. as below-.. Collector’s Commission ........................ 25 150 Life Compositions ............... 40 0 0 .. Clerk ............................................ 200 Admission Fees .................. 64 0 0 .. T. Hux. Cleaning and Attendance. from Resident Members’ Subscription March.1859 to March. 1860 ............ 20 00 previous to 1859............... 10 0 0 ” Petty Expenses. as per Book .................. 5 410 Non-Resident ditto ... IG o a ?? Gate Porter ....................................... 110 Resident ditto for 1359 ... 32 0 0 >’ Royal Society. Share of Tea Expenses ...... 17 170 NonSResident ditto ..... 67 0 0 .. Subscription to Cavendish Society ......... 110 Resident ditto €or 1860 ... 196 0 0 9’ Books and Magazines ........................ 13 76 Non-Resident ditto ..... 89 0 0 Bookbinding ................................... 696 9’ Non-Resident ditto for 1861 ... 1 0 0 .. Stamps. Postage. Envelopes. Stationery. -111 525 0 0 Cab Hire. &c.............................. 8 115 Clock (C. Prodsham)........................... 11 0.0 >? I____. 1859. 391 4 7 May 9. .. Purchase of $100 3 per cent . Consols...... 90 176 -___._ ASSETS. la60. 482 2 1 E s. d. ’itaarch 24. .. Balance at Coutts’s ............ 515 3. 3 Balance in Cash ..................... 565 3 3 ?P J) .. Ditto in Cash ..................... 50 0 0 -I__ Invested in 3 per cent Consols ... 450 0 0 565 3 3 -_1__ 81.015 3 3 $ 047 5 4 047 5 4 Examined and found correct . W. H. THORNTHWAITE. 1 W. M. PERKIN ... E. A. HADOW. 172 PROCXEDINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. April 5 1860 Dr. W. A Miller Vice-president in the Chair. Dr. Thomas Andrews delivered a discourse on “Ozone.” The following donations have been received :-(I Annales de Chimie” (1789 to 1805) 55 volumes from Dr.R. D. Thomson. Jahrbuch der kaiserlich-koniglichen geologischen Reichs-anstalt,” No. 3 fur 1859 from the Institute. ‘‘ Chemical News,” Nos. 13 14 15 from the Publishers. EC Journal of the Society of Arts,” Nos. 380 381 382 from the Society. u Journal of the Photographic Society” for March 1860 from the Society. It Literary Gazette,” Nos. 89 90 from the Publishers cc On the Composition of the Photographic Image,” by John Spiller Esq. from the Author. April 19 1860 Robert Warington Esq. in the Chair The following were elected Fellows of the Society :-M. J. Stark Esq. Norwich; J. A. R. Newlands Esq. 19 West-square Southwark ; 5. McDonn ell Esq. 71 Great Strand-street Dublin ; C. E. Long Esq. Westcroft-place Ham-rnersmith; F.Sutton Esq. Norwich. The following papers were read :-rc On the artificial production of Tartaric Acid,” by Messrs. Perkin and Duppa. (6 On Crystallized Potassium and Sodium,” by Mr. C. E Long. lc On the History of Cinnarnic Acid,” by Mr. D. Howard. On the action of Sodium on Iodide of Methyl,” by Messrs Wanklyn and Buckheisen. PROCEEDINGS 0F THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 7 73 The following donations have been received :-‘‘Bulletin de 1’Acade’mie Imp6riale des Sciences de St. Pdters-bmrg,” Tome I. Feuilles 1-9 from the Academy. I‘ American Journal of Science and Arts,” March 1860 from the Editors “ Canadian Journal,” March 1860 from the Editors. Atlantis,” No. V. from the Catholic University of Ireland.“ Two Orations delivered before the Academy of Sciences at Munich :” from the Academy. cc Report of Experiments with different Manures on Per-manent Meadow Land,” by J. B. Lawes Esq. F.R.S. and Dr. J. €3. Gilbert F.R.S. from the Authors. May 3 1860. Professor Br o di e President in the Chair. IVilliam Proctor Esq. Petergate York was elected a Fellow of the Society. Dr. J. H. Gladstone delivered a discourse “On Circular Polarization.” The following donations have been received :-“ Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,” Vol. XXII. Part I. ‘‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,” Session 1858-59 from the Society. ‘c Pharmaceutical Journal” for May 1860 from the Editors. “ Chemical News,” Nos. 16-21 from the Publishers.‘I Journal of the Franklin Institute” for February 1860 from the Institute. u Journal of the Photographic Society” for April 1860 from the Society. rc Literary Gazette,” Nos. 91-94 from the Publishers. “ Journal of the Society of Arts,” Nos. 383-387 from the Society. 175% PKOCEEDINCS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. May 17 ‘1860. Robert Porrett Esq. Vice-President in the Chair. The following papers were read :-“ On Zinc-methyl,” by Mr. J. A. Wanklyn. On the Stibethyls and Stibmethyls,” by G. 13. Buckton. I‘ On some derivatives from the Olefines,” by Dr. Guthrie. The following donations have been received :-“ Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila-delphia,” Nos. 1-5 for 1860 from the Academy. “ Journal of the Society of Arts,” No.388 389,390 from the Society. “ Journal of the Franklin Institute” for March and April 1860 from the Institute. ‘‘ Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society,’’ May 1860 from the Society. “Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Geological Society of London,” February 1860 by J. Phillips Esq. from the Author. “ Journal of the Photographic Society,” May 1860 from the Society. “ Chemical News,” Nos. 22 23 from the Publishers. June 7 1860. Professor Brodi e President in the Chair. Dr. Frankland delivered a discourse on Organo-metallic bodies. The following donations have been received :-I‘ Denkschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlicheKlasse).Band. XVII.” ‘‘ Sitzungsherichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der VF‘issen- schaften No. 10-28.” “Register zu den Banden XXI bis XXX :” from the Academy. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEXXCAL SOCIETY. I‘ Jahresbericht fur Meteorolgie und Erdmagnetismus. Band VI fur 1854.” ‘‘Almannch der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften fur 1849 :” from the Academy. ‘‘Journal of the Society of Arts Nos. 391-393 :” from the Society. “Chemical News Nos. 24-26 :’’ from the Publishers. “Pharmaceutical Journal for June 1860 :” from the Editor. ‘‘ Literary Gazette Nos. 95-98 :” from the Publishers. “Elements of Chemistry,” by William Allen Miller M.D. Part I ‘‘ Chemical Physics :” from the Author. ‘‘ Experimental Inquiry into the Composition of some of the Animals fed and slaughtered for Human Food,” by J.B. Lawes Esq. F.R.S. and Dr. J. H. Gilbert F.R.S. from the Authors. “Repertory of Patent Inventions,” 13 volumes; “Newton’s London Journal of Arts and Sciences :” from 1CiEessrs. De La Rue. June 21 1860. Thomas Graham Esq. F.R.S. in the Chair. The following papers were read :-“ On Baudrimont’s Protosulphide of Carbon,” by Lyon Playfair C.B. F.R.S. ‘‘ On the composition of Hydrated Acids of Constant Boiling point,” by H. E. Roscoe Ph.D. ‘‘ On Acetoxybenzamic Acid an isomer of Hippuric Acid,” by G. C. Foster Esq. ‘‘On the employment of Saccharate of Lime as a Normal Alka- line Solution in Volumetric Analysis,” by F. Maxwell Lyte Esq. The following donations have been received :-‘‘Philosophical Transactions,” from Part I1 for 1854to €art I1 for 1859 from the Royal Society.‘‘ Observations made at the Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at St. Helena,’’ Vol. 11. presented by order of the British Government. 276 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICBL SOCIEI‘Y. cc Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,” No. 7 from the Society. Chemical News,” Nos. 27 28 from the Publishers. “ Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society :” from the Society. “ Journal of the Society of Arts,’’ Nos. 394 395 from the Society. (‘Literary Gazette,” Nos. 99-103 from the Publishers. ‘‘ Journal of the Photographic Society,” June 1860 from the Society. “ Journal of the Franklin Institute,” May 1860 from the Institute.cc On the Alloys of Copper and Zinc,” by F. H. Storer from the Author. ‘‘ Photographs of Fluorescent Substances showing the small Chemical effect of the Light reffected from them :” from Dr. J. H. Gladstone

ISSN:1743-6893    

DOI:10.1039/QJ8611300165

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