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PK,OCEE,DINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Vol. 23. No.324. Friday, 88nd March, 1907. Annual General Meeting, Professor R. MELDOLA,F.R S , Presideot, in tho Chair. Dr. G. D. Lander and Dr. J. F. Thorpe were appointed sctwtatora and the Ballot was opened for the election of Officers and Council for the ensuing year. The PRESIDENTpresented the Report of the Council on the progress of the Society during the past twelve months. The adoption of the R.eport of the Council was proposed by Prof. J. B. Harrison, seconded by Prof. W. Jackson Pope, and carried unanimously. REPOKT OF THE COUNCIL. THE Council has the satisfaction of being able to report the continued prosperity of the Society and that, rneasrired by the number of papers read and the number of Feliows on the list, there has been greater activity than in any previous year.On the 31*t December, 1905, the number of Fellows was 2,785. During 1906, 173 Fellows were elected and 2 reimtated, thus making a gross total of 2,959. The Society has lost 24 Fellows by death; 24 have resigned, the elections of 5 have become void ; 39 have been removed for non-payment of Annual Subscriptions, and 7 Life Com-pounders, whose addresses could not be found, have been removed 96 The total number of Fellows, therefore, on the 81st Derember, 1906, was 2,860, showing an increase of 15 over the number for the previous year. The names of the deceased Fellows, with the dates of their election, are : W. H. Chandler (1873). W. J. Orsman (1884). F.J. Claudet (1852). B. Phillips (1889). T. S. Davis (1876). J. E. Pitmari (1906). W. H. Edwiirds (1902). T. Royle (1862). M. H. Foye (1884). F. Smith (1890). C. II. B. Hambly (1859). T.D. Smith (1898). J. G. Hepburn (1853). H. J. P, Sprengel (1864). J. 8. C. Heywood (1848). W. S. Squire (1858). G. H. Hurst (1885). J. A. Storey (1891). F. &I. Lyte (1859). C. Tookey (1855). C. W. Marsh (1881). T. B. Tjson (1885). E. H. Miller (1897). A. Walker, Maj-Den. (1868)' The following Fellows have resigned : a.D. Atkinson. P. Haigh. A. S. Mayfield, J. Bateman. S. M. Haigh. J. B. Moody. W. C. T. Beasley. W. Harris. J. W. Sandford. Sir B. V. S. Brodie, Bt. E. Hughes. G. T. S. Sichel. C. H. Burge. R. €3. Lee. W. H, Sodeau.J. M. Campbell. H. L. Leech. K. C. Styles. H. E. Ellis. H. P. Lewis. G. E. Torrilins. J. C. Fell. W. C. Mackenzie. P, J. Vinter. The names of the Life Compounders whose addresses cannot be found, and who have been removed t,herefore by the Council, are : (3. Crampton (1875). A. W. Gillnian (ISSS), J. Danson (1850), J. Hadkinson (187s). A. A, Ferreira (1864). F. E. Harrnan (18'74). James Millar (1848). The number of the Fellows who were elected in the early part of the last century has been still further diminished by the death of Mr. F. J. Claudet,, elected on 16th February, 1852; Mr. J. G. Hepburn, elected on 21st February, 1853 ; and of Mr. J. S. C, Heywood, who was elected on 3rd April, 1848. The number of Honorary and Foreign Members at the close of 1905 was 34, No elections have been held during 1906, but the Society has to mourn the loss of Dr.Fedor Beilstein, who was elected 97 1st February, 1883, and who died on 19th October, 1906. The number of Honorary and Foreign Members at 31st December, 1906, was therefore 33. Since the close of 1906, the Society has lost by death three more of its Honorary and Foreign Members, namely, Prof. Dr. D. I. Mendelkeff, (on 2nd February), Prof. Dr. Nicolai Menschutkin (on 4th February), and Prof. Henri Bloissan (on 20th February). During the year 1906, 336 scientific communications h:we been made to the Society, 176 of which have been published already in the Transactions, and abstracts of all have appeared in the Proceedings.The volume of Transactions for 1906 contains 1,943 pages, of which l,S90 are occupied by 186 memoirs, the remaining 53 pages being devoted to the Cleve Memorial Lecture, the Report of the Annual General Meeting, and the Presidential Address; the volume for the preceding year contains 184 memoirs, which occupy 1,818 pages. The Journal for 1906 contains also 4,541 abstracts of papers published mainly in foreign journals, which extend to 1,912 pages, whilst the abstracts for 1905 numbered 4,356, and occupied 1,828 pages. The abstracts for 1906 may be classified as follows : Part I. No. of Pages. Abstracts. Organic Chemistry .............................. 1,000 1,745 Part 11. General and Physical Chemistry ............651 Inorganic Chemistry ........................... 559 Mineralogical Chemistry .................... 128 Physiological Chemistry. ....................... 486 Chemistry of Vegetable Physiology and Agriculture ................................. 343 Analytical Chemistry.. ......................... 629 -912 2,796 Total in Parts I. and IJ................ 1,912 4,541 Among the first acts of the Council elected in March, 1906, was the appointment of a Finance Committee, and it was decided also that the names of the Members, together with those of the House, Library, Publication, and Research Fund Committees, should be read from the Chair at the Ordinary Meeting next after the Meeting of Council at which the Committees are formed.In the previous session, and on a second occasion during the present one, the desirability of reading the minutes at an Ordinary Meeting has been called in question; for the guidance of Chairmen on this point it has been resolved that henceforth the minutes must beread as long as the present Bye-Laws remain in force. The practice of holding the Ordinary Meetings of the Society on the first and third Thursdays of the month, reversion to which was announced in the last Annual Report, appears justified by the average attendance of Fellows, which has been well maintained. In order to relieve the pressure of business which has been usual at the first and last Meetings of the Session, it was decided to hold two extra Meetings, in October and July respectively. The triennial award of the Longstaff Medal to the Fellow of the Society who, in the opinion of the Council, has done the most to promote Chemical Science by Research, was made, on the recommenda- tion of the Research Fund Committee, to Prof.Walter Noel Hartley, F.R.S., in recognition of his spectrochemical investigations. The medal was presented on October lsth, 1906. On the occasion of the International Celebration marking the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the Coal Tar Colour Industry, an address of congratulation to Sir William Henry Perkin, F.R.S., was presented on behalf of the Society by the President. In accordance with the resolution of the public meeting at which the commemoration was inaugurated, a marble bust of Sir William Yerkin, executed by Mr.F. W. Pomeroy, A.R.A., has been presented to the Society by the Committee administering the Fund subscribed in support of the celebration. The Society has also received a Berzelius medal cast in selenium, presented by Mr. John Spiller, and Prof, J. M. Thomson, F.R.S., has presented an aqua-tint engraving of Dr. Thomas Thomson, F.R.S., Regius Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glnsgow from 1818 to 1852. During the vacation of 1906 an address was presented to the University of Aberdeen at the celebration of its fourth centenary, which took place in September. The congratulations of the Society were offered also to the distinguished Honorary and Foreign member, Professor Adolph Lieben, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday and fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate.The desirability of applying for R supplemental Charter with a view to removing existing'restrictions in regard to nationality and sex as affecting election to the Fellowship of the Society has been carefully considered by the Council. After receiving the report of a Special Committee consisting of Mr. Phipson Beale, Mr. Bousfield, Dr. Horace Brown, Dr. Moody, Professor Emerson Reynolds, Dr. T. E. Thorpe, 99 Professor W A. Tilden, and the Officers, the Council resolved that for the guidance of Chairmen, only those Fellows who are British subjects can vote at meetings or be eligible for offices, and that the matter be made clear by adding to the gloss on the Charter, after the first para- graph, the words (‘but British subjects who are Fellows can alone exercise corporate rights, or be eligible for office.” The Council has resolved that, following the ordinary index of the Transactions, there shall appear a list of new compounds described in the original communications, tabulated according to the Richter system.The alchemical and early chemical works presented to the Library by Sir Henry E. Roscoe have been catalogued (Proc., 1906, 22, 209-233) and the volumes placed in a special book-case. The number of books borrowed from the Library during 1906 was 1,126, as against 1,108 in the previous year. The additions to the Library comprise : (a) a collection of 136 alchemical and other books presented by Sir Henry E.Roscoe; (6) 121 books, of which 64 were presented, 385 volumes of periodicals, and 32 pamphlets, as against 165 books, 324 volumes of periodicals, and 48 pamphlets last year. In January last the Council decided that during the remainder of the present Session the Library shall be kept open for the use of Fellows every Thursday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m., except on those evenings on which the Society meets, when it will remain open until 10.30 p.m. The annual income of the Research Fund from its investments is 2219 17s. Od., and from this grants amounting to 2210, as well as the Longstaff Honorarium and Medal, had to be paid. That this should be not only possible, but that there should also be an excess of income over expenditure of 226 13s.lld. for the year, is due to the amount of 2.386s. lld. having been returned from grants made in previous years. In the Transactions for 1906 there are 31 papers contributed by authors to whom grants had been made from the Research Fund. The Treasurer has great pleasure in recording that in February of the present year the Society received a further munificent donation of 21,000 to the Research Fund from the Worshipful Company of Gold- smiths. The income accruing from this donation will, in accordance with the expressed wish of the donors, be devoted especially to the encouragement of research in metallurgy and inorganic chemistry. The financial transactions of the Society for the past year have been very satisfactory and show a substantial surplus.The total income of the Society for 1906 is &7,121 89. lld., being an increase of &327 14s. lld. over that for 1905 (26,793 14s. Od.), in spite of the fact that the amount received on account of Life Composition Fees has fallen from A360 to &26S, a decrease of &92. The increase in 100 income is mainly composed of the following three items : (1) admis-sion fees, d2120; (2) annual subscriptions, $138 18s. Od. ; and (3) sale of publications, $120 6s. 3d. Whilst the income has notably increased, the expenditure has fallen much more considerably and is $718 19s. 8d. less than last year, so that instead of a deficit of $305 1s. 5d. on the year’s working there is a surplus of $741 -13s.2d., a difference in all of $1,046 14s. 7d. This is due very largely to having no expenses of any kind to meet on account of the Collective Index, which last year alone cost the Society $778 10s. 5d., but it must not be thought that nothing is being done towards the prepara- tion of the next volume, because the card indexes now made by Mrs. Dougal for each Annual Index will, with comparatively little expense and labour, be blended together and thus utilised for the preparation of Vol. V. of the Collective Index, which will cover the period 1903-1 912. The cost of the JournaZ, the Proceedings, and the Annual Reports all show increased expenditure, amounting to d271 79. 6d., 240 69., and ,268 10s. 7d.respectively, It is very satisfactory to notice that although the Transactions and Abstracts show an increase of over 200 pages and contain several lengthy, as well as important and expensive, papers, the increase in cost should be so small. In this con- nexion the Treasurer has to thank Professor Pope and Mr. Barlow for supplying all the blocks required to illustrate their paper published in the November issue of the Journal. The increased cost of the Pro-ceedings is due in part to the issue of two additional numbers corre- sponding to the two extra Meetings of the Society in July and in October, and in part also to the printing of the catalogue, compiled with great care by the Librarian, of the collection of alchemical works above referred to which the Society owes to the generosity of Sir H.E. Roscoe, and which are now properly housed in the Library. The balance sheet also shows that a small legacy of E33 129. 3d. has been received under the will of the late Mr. Henry Dircks, and is a residue of the estate from which almost exactly thirty years ago the Society received $840 5s. The TREASURER gave a statement as to the Society’s Income and Expenditure during the year 1906, and proposed a vote of thanks to the Auditors, which was seconded by Dr. W. R. E. Hodgkinson and carried unanimously. Acknowledgment was made by Mr. E. Grant Hooper. A vote of thanks to the Treasurer, Secretaries, Foreign Secretary, and Council for their services during the past year was proposed by Sir William H.Perkin, seconded by Dr. E. Divers, and adopted unanimously ;this was acknowledged by Sir William Ramsay. 101 The President then delivered his address, entitled ‘I The Position and Prospects of Chemical Research in Great Britain.” Dr. T. E. Thorpe proposed a vote of thanks to the President coupled with the request that he mould allow it to be printed in the Society’s Transactions. The motion was seconded by Prof. J. Millar Thornson, and carried with acclamation, the President making acknowledgment. The Scrutators then presented their report to the Chairman, who declared that the following had been duly elected as Officers and Council for the ensuing year : President :Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S. Vice-Presidentswho have filled the Ofice of President :H. E.Arm-strong, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. ; A. Crum Brown, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. ; Sir William Crookes, D.Sc., F.R.S. ; Sir James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. ; A. Vernon Harcourt, M. A,, D. C.L., F.R.S. ;Raphael Meldola, F.R.S.; H. Muller, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.; W. Odling, M.A., M.B., F.R.S. ; Sir W. H. Perkin, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. ; J. Emerson Reynolds, Sc.D., M.D., F.R.S. ; Sir Henry E.lRoscoe, LL.D., F.R.S. ; W. J. Russell, Ph.D., F.R.S.; T. E. Thorpe, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.; W. A. Tilden, D.Sc., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents: J. J. Dobbie, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. ; Rudolph Messel, Ph.D. ;Sir Alexander Pedler, C.I.E., F.R.S. ; W. H. Perkin, Ph.D., F.R.S. ;A. Smithells, B.Sc., F.R.S. ;W. P. Wynne, D.Sc., F.R.S. Treasurev :Alexander Scott, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.Secretaries: M. 0. Forster, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S. ; A. W. Crossley, D.Sc., Ph.D. Foreign Secretary :Horace T. Brown, LL.D., F.R.S. Ordinmy Members of Council : Edward C. C. Baly ; George T. Beilby, F.R.S. ; Bernard Dyer, I).Sc. ;W. R. E. Hodgkinson, Ph.D. ; E. Grant Hooper ;H. A. D. Jowett, D.Sc. ; H. R. Le Sueur, D.Sc. ; F. E. Matthews, Ph.D. ; G. T. Moody, D.Sc. ;A. G. Perkin, F.R.S. ; W. J. Sell, D.Sc., F.R.S. ;John Wade, D.Sc. 102 ANNIVERSARY DINNER. The Anniversary Dinner of the Society was held at the Whitehall Rooms on Friday, March 22nd, at 7 p.m., at which the following Fellows and Guests were present : Armit, Dr. 1%'. Armstrong, Dr. E. F. Armstrong, Prof. H. E., F.R.S., Past President.Baker, Dr. H. B., F.R.S. Baker, Mr. J. L. Barger, Dr. G. Barry, Sir John Wolfe, K.C.B., F.R.S., C7~airnznnof Executive Committee, City and Guilds of London lnstitutc. Bayliss, Dr. W. M., F.R.S. Beale, Nr. W. P., K.C., M.P. Beilby, Mr. G. T., F.R.S. Blaikie, Mr. L. Brewin, Mr. A., Priiite Warden, The Dyers' Company.Briggs, Mr. H. Brown, Prof. A. J. Brown, Dr. H. T., F.R.S., Vice-Pre-sident, and Foreign Secretary-elect. Brunton, Sir T. Lauder, F.R.S. Cain, Dr. J. C., Editor. Carpmael, Mr. W. Carr, Mr. S. E., Assistant Xecretary. Carvalho, Mr. 8. N. Chapman, Mr. A. C. Clark, Dr. John, President, The Societyof Pibblic Analysts.Clifford, Mr. F. W., Librarian. Clowes, Prof. F. Cdburn, hlr. H. I.Cockburn, Hon. Sir John A., K.C.M.G. Colman, Dr. H. G. Cooper, Mr. A. Cooper, Dr. H. C. Crossley, Prof. A. W.,Hon. Secretary. Daily Telegraph, The Dale, Dr. H. H. Desch, Dr. C. H., Assistant Sub-Editor. Divers, Prof. E., F.R.S. Dixon, Prof. H. B., F.R.S., Vice-Pre-sident. Dixon, Prof. W. E. Dobbie, Prof. J. J., F.R. S., Vice-Pre-sident-elect. Dyer, Dr. B. Elliott, Sir T. H., K.C.B., Xecretary,The Board of Agriculture.Elliott, Mr. T. R. Ewing, Prof. J. A,, F.R.S., Director of Naval Education. Fairley, Mr. T. Farmer, Prof. J. B., F. R.S. Feilmann, Dr. M. E. Fenton, Dr. H. J. H., F.R.S. Fierz, Dr. H. E. Finzi, Mr. J. A. Fischer, Geh. Rath Prof. Dr. E., F.R.S. Fisk, Mr. F. M. Forbes, Mr. F. A. Forster, Dr.M. O., F.R.S., Ron. Xecretamy.Friswell, Mr. R. J. Gabriel, Geh. Rath Prof. Dr. S. Gardner, Mr. H. C. T. Geikie, Sir A., F.R.S., President, The Geological Society. Gihbons, Mr. W. M. Glazebrook, Dr. R. T., F.R.S., President,The Instit,utionof Elcctrical Engineers.Green, Prof. A. G. Greenaway, Mr. A. J., Sub-Editor. Greenish, Prof. H. G. Hall, Mr. S. Hall, Mr. S. G. Harden, Dr. A. Hardy, Mr. W. B., F.R.S. Harrison, Prof. J. B., C.M.G. Harvey, Dr. J. S. Henry, Dr. T. A. Hewitt, Dr. J. T. Heycock, Mr. C. T., F.R.S. Hill, Mr. C. A. Hodgkinson, Prof. W. R. E. Holloway, Mr. G. T. Hooper, Mr. E. G. Hopkins, Dr. F. G., F.R.S. Humphrey, Mr. J. Jones, Dr. H. 0. Jowett, Dr. H. A. D. Kelvin, Rt. Hon. Lord, O.M., G.C.V. 0.)F.R. S. Kemp, Mr. W. J. Kipping, Prof. F. S., F.R.S. Lankester, Prof. E. Ray, F.R.S., Pre-sident, The British Association for the Advancement of Science. Lees, Mr. P. H. Le Sueur, Dr. H. R. Lewkowitsch, Dr. J. Lockyer, Sir J. N., K.C.B., F.R.S. Chair-man of Committee. Britbh Science Guild. Lowry, Dr. 1'. M. Luard, Mr. S. W., Clerk, The Salters' Company.Lunge, Prof. Dr. G. Maben, Mr. T. 103 MacEwan, Mr. P. McGowan, Dr. G. MacMahon, Major P. A., R. A,, F.R.S. Mander, Mr. G. Le M. Marsh, Mr. J. E., F.R.S. Martin, Sir Richard B., Bart., Prime TVarden, The Fishmongers’ Company. Matthews, Dr. F. E. Meldola, Prof. R., F.R.S., The Pre-sident. Messel, Dr. R., ViceLPresident. Mohr, Dr. B. Mondy, Mr.E. F. Moody, Dr. G. T. Morant, Mr. R. L., C.R., Permanent Secrztary, The Board of Edacation. Morning Post, The Morrell, Dr. R. S. Morris, hfr. H., President, Royal College of Surgeons.Noseley, Mr. A,, C.1LI.G. Moss, Mr. C. C. B. Miiller, Dr. Franz. Miiller, Dr. H., F.R.S. ,Past President. Nagel, MI-. D. H. Nathan, Lt.-Col., Sir F. L., R.A., Superintendent, 12oya2 GunpowclerFactory, Waltham Abbey. Ogilvie, Mr. P. G., Prim. Assist. Sec-retary, Technology and HigherEducation in Science and Art, Board cf Education. Orton, Prof. K. J. P. Page, Mr. F. J. M. Palmer, Sir W., Bart. I’aterson, Mr. J. B. Pedler, Sir A,, C.I.E., F.R.S., Vice-Prcsident-elcct. Perkin, Prof. A. G., F.R.S. Perkin, Sir W. H., F.R.S., Put Pre-sident.Perkin, Prof. W. H., F.R.S. Vice-President. Perry, Prof. J., F. R.S., President, The Physical Society. PhenB, Dr. J. S., Master, The Cloth- workers’ Company. Plimmer, Dr. R. H. A. Pope, Prof. W. J., F.R.S. Poulton, Prof. E. B., F.R.S. Power, Dr. F. B. Prain, Lt.-Col. D., F.R.S., Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Press Association, The Prideaux, Sir W. S., Clerk, The Gold- smiths’ Company. Pugh, Mr. A. J. Ramsay, Sir W., K.C.B., F.R.S., Foreign Secretary and President-elect. Rees, Mr. H. P. Reynolds, Prof. J. E., F.R.S., Past President. Roberts, Sir O., Clerk, The Clothworkers’ Company.Riicker, Sir A. W.,F.R.S., Principal,The University of London. Ruhemann, Dr. S. Russell, Dr. W. J., F.R.S., Past President.Ryan, Prof. F. Salamon, Mr. A. G., President, Institute of Brewing.Samuel, Mr. H., M. P. ,ParliamentaryUnder Secretary of State for the Home Department.Scott, Dr. A., F.R.S., Trcaszwer. Seligman, Dr. R. Sell, Dr. W. J., F.R.S. Silberrad, Dr. 0. Smith, Dr. F. H. Smithells, Prof. A. , F.R.S., Vice-President Soper, Mr. A. L. Spielmann, Mr. M. H., F.S.A. Spielmann, Mr. P. E. Standard, The Starling, Prof. E. H., F.R.S. Stone, Sir B., M.P. Streatfeild, Mr. F. H. Streimer, Mr. E. G. Strutt, Hon. R. J., F.R.S. Sutton, Mr. G. F., Clerk, The Dyers’Company.Swan, Sir J. W., F.R.S. Thompson, Prof. S. P., F.R S., Princi-pal, Finsbzrry Technical College. Thornson, Prof. J. M. , F. R. S. Thorpe, Dr. J. F.Thorpe, Prof. T. E., C.B., F.R.S., Past President. Tilley, Mr. J. W. Tilley, Mr. V. J. Tinzes, The Townshend, Col. G. R. Tunnicliffe, Prof. F. W. Tyrer, Mr. T., President, The Phar-maceutical Conference. Vincent, Dr. J. H. Wade, Dr. J. Walker, Mr. J. T. A. Waller, Dr. A.D., F.R.S. Warren, Mr. T. H., Vice-Chancellor, The University of Oxford. Weizmann, Dr. C. West, Dr. S. White, Sir W. H., K.C.B., F.R.S. Woodcock, Mr. R. C. Wynne, Prof. W. P., F.R.S., Vice-President. Ransford, Mr. R. B. Yarrow, Mr. A. F. Rnyleigh, Rt. Hon. Lord, O.M., F.R.S., Young, Dr. G. President, The Royal Society. Zilz, Mr. H. 104 The following toasts were proposed : BY THE PRESIDENT. 1. His Most Gracious Majesty the King. 2.Her Majesty the Queen Alexandra, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the other Members of the Royal Family. By the Right Honourable LORDRAYLEIGH,O.M., F.R.S., President of the Royal Society. 3. The Chemical Society, coupled with the name of The President. By Sir WILLIAM K.C.B., F.R.S.,RAMSAY, President-Elect of the Chemical Society. 4. Scientific Societies, coupled with the names of the Right Honourable LORD KELVIN, O.M., G.C.V.O., F.R.S., and Pro-fessor E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R,S., President of the British Associationfor th:! Advancenaent of Xcieme. By Professor HENRYE. ARMSTRONG,F.R.S., Past President of the Chemical Society. 5. Education, associated with the names of Mr. T. H. WARREN, Vice-Chancellov of the University of Oxford ;Sir ARTHURW.RUCKER,F.R.S., Principal of the University of London; and Sir JOHNWOLFE BARRY, K.C.B., F.R.S., Chccirman of the Executive Committee of the City and Guilds of London Institute. C.B., F.R.S.,Professor T. E, THORPE, Pust President of the Chemical Society. 6. The Guests, coupled with the names of Geh. Rath Professor Dr. EMILFISCHER, F.R.S.,F.R.S., and Professor J, A. EWINB, Director of iVava2 Education. 105 After the President had given the Loyal Toasts, The Right Honourable LORD O.M., proposeci THE CHEMICALRAYLEIGH, SOCIETY. He said the toast would require but little commendation from him in such a company as was assembled. Although most of his time had been given up to the study of physics, he had always taken the keenest interest in their science, and at an early age had served a sort of apprenticeship to it, having managed to burn his fingers rather seriously with phosphorus before he was thirteen.Their science was so extensive and grew with such rapidity that, many of its branches were but little known to him. As examples of this growth, he referred to the development of the aniline dye industry, which had become of immense theoretical and practical importance, and to the various branches so intimately connected with the name of Dr. Emil Fischer. In some aspects, chemistry might be regarded as a branch of physics, and only lately he had been looking over those wonderful papers of Willard Gibbs which were still the foundation of that branch of chemical science, and which had recently been collected and republished.Prof. Meldola was a man of many and varied attainments. Primarily he was a chemist, but there were few departments of science with which he was not Connected, and therefore in giving the toast of the Society he would couple with it the name of its President,. The PRESIDENTsaid he was deeply indebted to those present for the very kind reception which they had given to the toast proposed by the distinguished President of the Royal Society. He could not help feeling that this was one of those rare occasions that fall to the lot of the official representative of one of the scientific societies to speak to a somewhat wider public than his own immediate circle of colleagues who meet within the walls of the scientific societies, and he would take this opportunity of saying a word or two as to the work of these societies.He feared there was only too much truth in the accusation that this is an unscientific nation. Still, he would have it known that in societies like that assembled and in kindred societies there were banded together small armies of ardent workers who were keeping alight the torch of scientific research, and that, however unscientific nationally, when the tiae of scientific enlighten- ment arrived he hoped this mould count to our credit and for merit. With regard to the Chemical Society in particular, he felt disposed to join issue with Lord Rayleigh as to whether chemistry should be regarded as a branch of physics or physics as a branch of chemistry.He claimed that in its ultimate association with other departments of science, chemistry was as far-reaching, as cosmopolitan, as any branch of science which was being cultivated at the present time, The Chemical Society was in an exceedingly flourishing condition, It was 106 a venerable Society, founded in 1841, and granted a Charter in 1848. It had therefore arrived at what, according to the Civil Service estimates, would be considered as the year of dotage, instead of which he regarded it as only just entering its prime. During the last few months the Society’s ranks had been thinned by the hand of death in the most lamentable way.All its honorary and foreign Russian members, Beilstein, Mendelkeff, and Menschutkin, had been lost, aGd in France Moissan had passed away, and, quite recently, Berthelot. He was sure those assembled would like it to be known how deeply they sympathised with their foreign confT8res on the international loss which science had sustained by the death of these distinguished chemists. The Society had a membership of nearly 2,900, and was spending from S4,OOO to S5,OOO a year in printing and publishing the Transactions, Proceedings, and Annual Reports. Of the value of these publications he need say nothing, for they were sufficiently well known, and if any justification for the Society’s existence were ever needed its publications might be pointed out as the one great work which it had so successfully carried on.The editorial department mas omnivorous. In the pages of the Journal, room -was made for atoms and electrons, and even corpuscles. They all received perfectly impartial editorship, and if the new President would forgive the reference, space was even found for organic chemistry ! Among the self-imposed duties of the President was the delivery of an annual address, and that afternoon he had been dealing with a subject he had closely in mind, namely, the position of chemical research in this country. He had come to the conclusion that there was an immense deal of chemical talent, of chemical faculty, but that there wasan enormous wastage going on all over the country owing to unfavourable conditions, some of which he had endeavoured to analyse in the coiirse of his address.That was a very deplorable state of affairs, for which he saw no immediate prospect of any remedy. He thought gratitude should be expressed for auy checks to this wastage that might be in existence, and that it was the duty, not only of the Chemical Society as regards its own science, but the duty of the scientific world as a whole to give recognition to those agencies which were at work, helping to check this wastage of what he and many others considered to be one of the most valuable assets possessed by the country, namely, the original faculty of scientific work. Of such agencies he would mention the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, the Fellowship given by the Salters’ Company, and the Carnegie Scholarships.As to Research funds, the Government made a grant to the Royal Society, but Chemistry could only come in for its share along with other sciences. Then there was the Research Fund of the Chemical Society, from which there accrued thc modest 107 income of some $220 per annum, and on account of that income being so modest its allotment had to be limited to workers for the purchase of expensive materials and apparatus. The fund had been augmented recently by the munificence OF the Goldsmiths’ Company, who had added $1,000 to it. He would take this public opportunity of ex-pressing the appreciation of the whole scientific world at the muni- ficence of this same Company, which had so splendidly endowed the Lawes Agricultural Institute by a gift of aE10,OOO.Then it was hoped that in a short time the sum of 22,700 would be added to the Research Fund of the Chemical Society in the name of a distinguished past-President, Sir W. H. Perkin. Much more could be done if there were greater reserves to fall back upon. It had always been a point of ambition to him to see the Research Fund in such a position as would enable the Society to give personal grants to workers, so that they could each secure the services of competent men to co-operate with them in their work. That point appealed particularly to teachers like himself. All teachers had had brilliant young men passing through their classes who had been com-pelled to go out into the world as soon as possible to earn their living, and thus the country had practically lost the benefit of their capabilities.If by some such endowment as that alluded to teachers were enabled to capture talent of this kind and keep it going, the chemical research of the country would be an enormous gainer in the long run. Sir WM.RAMSAY,K.C.B., proposed ‘‘ Scientific Societies.” After mentioning many of the learned Societies of Europe and America, he asked why were they banded together. There were important reasons. One was that the young members were enabled to meet the old, which gave great encouragement to the younger men, and their elders found pleasure in knowing them, but the chief reason was that they all had at heart the advancement of knowledge. They desired to increase the sum total of the knowledge of the phenomena of the world.Their desire to know was insatiable, and they were willing to make sacrifices to that end. In that way they founded a brotherhood with all others who were working like themselves, independent of politics and independent of nationality. For these reasons, he asked them to drink the toast. LORDKELVIN,O.M., G.C.V.O., was the first to respond. He said he found it very difficult to distinguish between the scientific societies for which he had to reply. He believed “Physics” was the subject for which he was specially responsible. But chemistry-how was it distinguished from physics ‘1 For fifty-three years he had endeavoured to teach natural philosophy, which was Scotch for physics, and he never could distinguish between physics and chemistry. Well, what 108 was physics and what was chemistry? He would define them together as the science of Force.They heard much at present of the breaking up of atoms, but when they heard of an object from which some-thing had been chipped, it could not have been an atom. He had read in the newspapers of the death-bed of an atom, and yet chemists were going to be told that there was no such thing as an atom ! Whether there were many atoms of a different kind was a matter for investiga- tion, but whether each atom of its own kind remained for ever unchanged or not was a subject much discussed. He was not then going to give an opinion upon it, but it was better not to call a thing an atom when it mas broken.As to chemistry, he had great sympathy with it. Lord Rayleigh burnt his fingers with phosphorus when he was thirteen. Well, he (Lord Kelvin) had burnt his fingers with phosphorus when he was eighty-two, a thing but few chemists or physicists could say. Prof. E. EAYLANKESTERalso responded. Scientific societies at the present time were somewhat limitedin their objects, or at any rate in their possible activity. He thought they should become something more like the ancient guilds of the great cities of Europe, and endeavour to obtain large funds from those who had benefited and had made Fortunes out of the knowledge discovered by the devotees of these sciences, and to employ those funds in development on their own particular lines.He was astonished to learn that the Chemical Society had a Research Fund that produced only 2.820 a year. When they heard of the large fortunes made by the application of chemistry, he felt that one reason why they did not get more was some want of organisation to enable the societies to secure a very much larger proportion of the wealth gained from the increase of scientific know- ledge. In the future he thought they should try to make one large scientific society, something like a guild, or ancient college, or brother-hood, which would hold property for the benefit of a great cause, He ventured to say that would be a much better way to advance science than by gifts of money to mixed corporations, such as uni-versities. He had no faith in universities as promoters of scientific knowledge. Judging from the use made of the funds of the University of Oxford, no one could say that it was desirable to entrust any large sum of money, at the present moment, at any rate, to that University for the promotion of scientific research.The same would apply to the University of London. But societies, such as he suggested, could apply such funds without any danger of their being perverted to secondary uses. Prof. HENRYE. ARMSTRONGproposed the toast of “Education.” Speaking OF the Universities, he said a head and centre was abso- lutely necessary for classical activity, but they could not but feel that 109 it was the duty of the Universities to exact from their sons also some understanding OF science.Some knowledge of experimental phenomena should be aimed at in all culture. Mr. T. H. WARREN responded first. He said that chemistry at Oxford was not what it ought to be, but its position was far different from that which it occupied some years ago. The universities were reviving the traditions of olden times. At Oxford there was a great school of chemistry and there were many young chemists there who would be heard of before long. Sir ARTHUR next responded. He said it was the duty W. RUCHER of a University to teach and to add to knowledge, and he confessed to receiving a shock at what Prof. Ray Lankester had said. He stoutly defended theuniversity of London, and added that after all education was growing and we need not despair of English education.Sir JOHN WOLFE also responded. He said he looked forward BARNY to great results from the Colleges at South Kensington. Speaking as an engineer, he thought his profession might be stated to rest upon chemistry, which taught tbem the composition and properties of materials. Civil engineers were deeply indebted to the Chemical Society. EDWARDProf. THOMAS THORPEproposed ‘‘The Guests.” Dr. EMILFISCHER responded.and Prof. J. A. EWING Thursday, April 18th, 1907, at 8.30 p.m., Sir WILLIAMRAMSAY, K.C.B., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. Messrs. W. S. Anderson and I;. R. Scammel were formally admitted Fellows of the Society. It was announced that the Council had appointed the following Committees for 1907-1908.-Finance Committee.-E. G. Hooper, G. T. Moody, T. E. Thorpe, W. A. Tilden, and the Officers. House Committee.-W. R. Dunstan, J. E. Reynolds, W. J. Russell, J. M. Thomson, T. E. Thorpe, W. A. Tilden, and the OEcers. Library Committee.-E. C. C. Baly, B. H. Brough, F. D. Chattaway, B.Dyer, A. Harden, C. A. Keane, A. Lapworth, E. J. Mills, J. M. Thomson (Chairman), J. Voelcker, J. Wade, the Editor, and the Officers. Publication Committee.--€€. E. Armstrong, E. C, C. Baly, W. R, Dunstan, R. Meldola, G. T. Morgan, W. A. Tilden, J. Wade, and the Officers. Research Fund Committee.-G. T. Beilby, W. R. Dunstan, P. F. Frankland, A. D. Hall, G. .Matthey, R.Messel, H. Muller, Sir A. Pedler, W. H. Perkin, W. A. Tilden, and the Officers. 110 Certificates were read for the first time in favour of Messrs. : Hugh Hague Copping, B.A., Cabourne, Caistor, Lincolnshire. Matthewman Dalton Cowap, 21, Alma Square, St. John’s Wood, N.W. Eugen Fischer, Ph.D., Biebrich am Rhein, Germany. Walter George Gledhill, M.A., Dersingham, Greenroyde, Halifax. John Atkinson Jennings, 6 1, Gleneagle Road, Streatham, S.W. Percival George Lloyd, 15, Woodside Road, Kingston-on-Thames. Harold Pochin, B.A., 12, Chapel Street, Berkhampstead, Herts. Charles Kenneth Tinkler, B.Sc., 297, Franklin Road, Kings Norton, Nr. Birmingham, A certificate has been authorised by the Council for presentation for ballot under Bye-law I (par.3) in favour of Mr. Thomap Kirkman Dealy, Craigmin East, Magazine Gap, Hongkong. Of the following papers, those marked * were read : “76. The magnetic rotation of hexatriene, 6‘ CH,:CH*CH :CH* CH:CH,, and its relationship to benzene and other aromatic compounds, also its refractive power.” By Sir William Henry Perkin. In a paper on the magnetic rotatory power of aromatic compounds (Trans.,1896,69, 1025) the very high rotations they possess have been pointed out ;the cause of this has been supposed to be due in the case of benzene to its ring formation, because the rotation of that substance is much higher than that of its isomeride dipropargyl. This, however, became doubtful when it was found that d-~l~:*(~)-p-mentbadiene, which contains two unsaturated gronpings in con-junction, gave abnormally high rotations, indicating the possibility that in benzene and other substances containing unsaturated groups in con- junction, the high rotations were also due to this circumstance.It was therefore desirable to examine some chain compound containing unsaturated groups in conjunction, in which there could be no influence due to ring formation. This was rendered possible by the examina- tion of hexatriene, which contains three consecutive unsaturated groups. Hexatriene was found to have a remarkably high rotation of 12.196. The difference in the formation of hexatriene and benzene is simply the difference of ring formation, due to the loss of 2 atoms of hydrogen.This affects the magnetic rotation by 0-982 and if that amount is subtracted from the above a value is obtained for the 11 1 magnetic rotation of benzene, based on the assumption that benzene contains three unsaturated groupings ;this amounts to 11.214. This number is practically that actually found for benzene, 11.284, and appears to point to two conclusions, namely, that benzene contains three contiguous unsaturated groupings (KekulQ’s formula), and secondly that these have substantially the same values as in open chain compounds. It is also noticed that the values of these unsaturated groups when in conj nnction considerably increase with their number. The refractive and dispersive power of hexatriene is very high, but the numbers do not show such a close relationship to benzene as do the magnetic rotations..DISCUSSION. Mr, S. 5. PICKLESstated that the results obtained by Sir W. Perkin mere of interest particularly to terpene chemists, who were frequently coming in contact with phenomena connected with systems of conjugated ethylenic linkings. The anomalous behaviour of compounds containing such an arrangement of double bonds called for some explanation. The fact that such compounds as phellandrene, A3:8(9)-p-menthadiene, and A1’3-dihydrobenzene, all of which contain the grouping *C:C*C:C*,com-bine with only two atoms of bromine additively, instead of with foiir as might be expected, and the persistence of the remaining condition of unsaturation had often led chemists to wonder what was the state of affairs in conjugated ethylenic linkings.Sir W. Perkin’s determina- tions had shown that from a physical standpoint there were reasons for assuming a somewhat similar condition to that prevailing in the benzene ring, and the speaker considered that the above-mentioned behaviour was to some extent chemical evidence in the same direction. Thus, accepting certain properties and behaviour as the outcome of this arrangement of double bonds, the Kekul6 formula becomes applicable and explanatory in the case of benzene. Mr. BALYpointed out that in the KekulB benzene formula a A110, the conjugation of double linkings is greater than iny/b hexatriene ;in benzene this effect occurs between the double linkings a and b, between b and c, and between c and a, whilst in hexatriene, a b C CH,:CH*CH:CH*UH:CH2, the effect only occurs between a and b and between b and c, and not between c and a. He asked whether this increased conjugation might not be the origin of the fact that the magnetic rotation of benzene is higher than that of hexatriene by 112 true '6 0.07.He did not agree with Professor Armstrong's remarks that Sir William Perkin's results do not fit in with the modern views of the benzene molecule. The three double linkings as required by the Kekuld formula give rise to a definite amount of conjugation between them, and hence to a definite magnetic rotation. If the ring be flexible and in a state of pulsation or vibration, the total amount of conjugation would remain the same, as no energy leaves or enters the system.The magnetic rotation would therefore be the same as that demanded by the three static double linkings. The PRESIDENTremarked that the fact that Sir W. Perkin had found results which proved that the Kekul6 formula for benzene is the " one might be interpreted as implying that the Kekuld formula is the mean of the various possible formulse for benzene, configurations which it undmbtedly assumes during its changes. Sir W. H. PERKIN,in reply, said that it was well to bear in mind that the difference in rotation between the chain compounds hexa- triene and hexane was practically the same as that existing between the ring compounds benzene and hexamethylene.That the two classes of compounds should possess different chemical properties did not seem surprising. The difference of 0.07between the rotation of benzene estimated from hexatriene and the found value was small and might partly be due to experimental error; it had therefore not been thought advisable to give any special significance to it in the meantime. *77. ('Aromatic azoimides. Part I. p-Hydroxyphenylazoimide." By Martin Onslow Forster and Hang Eduard Fierz. The properties of camphorylazoimide have led the authors to investi- gate those of aromatic hydroxy-derivatives containing the N,-nucleus in order to ascertain whether the behaviour of the first-named substance is C-N,not best explained by the constitutional formula C,H,,<I 1C*OH' p-Erydroxyphe~ylaxoimide,HO*C,H,*N,, prepared by the action of hydroxylamine on diazotised p-aminophenol, is a colourless oil which has not been solidified, as an attempt to purify it by distillation under 1 mm.resulted in an explosion at 150'. The benxoyl derivative melts at SO", and the potassium derivative bas been obtained in two forms, coloured and colourless. The m-nitrobenxoyl derivative is faintly yellow and melts at 118'. Nitrous acid converts phydroxyphenylazoimide into 3-nitro-4-hydroxyphenylaxoimide, C6H403N4,a volatile, orange-coloured com-pound melting at 91"; the benxoyl derivative is colourless and melts at 103". 113 DISCUSSION. Prof. MELDOLAasked whether the identity of the benzoyl deriv- atives prepared, on the one hand, by benzoylating the azoimide obtained by the author's method, and, on the other, from p-nitro- phenyl benzoate by reduction, diazotisation , and conversion into the azoimide by the usual method, did not indicate that the compound possessed the phenolic as distinguished from the quinonoid con-stitution.Dr. MORGANenquired whether the authors recognised any analogy between the isomeric potassium derivatives of their p-hydroxyazoimide and the two series of ethers obtained by Hantzsch and his collabor- ators from the nitrophenols. If such a comparison were valid the alternative formula I for the coloured potassium salt : N-N*K 0 0.K /\II I1\.i would indicate clearly the relationship existing between this salt and the coloured ether (formula 11) of p-nitrophenol.In reply to Professor illeldola, Dr. FORSTERstated that the benzoyl derivative of p-hydroxyphenylazoimide obtained from p-nitrophenol was slightly coloured, 2s indeed were most of the specimens obtained from the colourless potassium derivative of the azoimide compound, but the appearance of such specimens was quite distinct from that of the benzoyl derivative obtained from the blue salt of p-hydroxyphenyl-azoimide. He regarded Dr. Morgan's suggestion as an acceptable one, and stated that the bearing of Hantzsch's work upon the problem had been appreciated in the paper. "78. Measurements of the velocities of saponification of the I-menthyl and I-borng 1 esters of the stereoisomeric mandelic acids." By Alexander McRenzie and Herbert Bryan Thompson.The authors find that I-bornyl d-mandelate is saponified more quickly than is I-bornyl I-mandelate. The esters were prepared from d-and I-mandelic acids respectively, and their velocities of saponification measured in ethyl-alcoholic solution under varying conditions of concentration and temperature, I-Menthyl d-mandelate and I-menthyl I-mandelate (Trans., 1904, 85, 114 1249) were also examined from the same standpoint ;it was found that the former ester is the more readily saponifiable of the two. A comparison of the veloaities of saponification of the bornyl and menthyl esters shows that the former are much more quickly saponified than the latter (compare also Trans., 1904, 85, 3'78 j 1905, 87,1004)."79. ('The constituents of the essential oil of Amerioan pennyroyal. Occurrence of a dextro-menthone." By Marmaduke Barrowcliff. The oil used in this investigation possessed the following charac- ters: d15'/15'=0-9297; ug +25'44' in a 1-dcm. tube; soluble in twice its volume of 70 per cent. alcohol. It has been found to consist of : (1) an undetermined phenol, in very small amount ; (2) Lpinene (nitrosochloride, m. p. 103-104' ; nitrolbenzylamine, rn. p. 122'); (3) E-limonene (tetrabromide, m. p. 104'); (4) dipentene (tetrabromide, m. p. 124O), all of these terpenes being present in only small amount ;(5) 1-methyl-3-cyclohexanone (oxime, m. p. 41-43'; semicarbazone, m. p. 182-183'), about 8 per cent.; (6) pulegone (semicarbazone, m.p. 171'), about 30 per cent. ;(7) E-menthone (oxime, m. p. 58-59' ;semicarbazone, m. p. 184-186'), and (8) d-isomenthone (semicarbazono, m. p. 125-126O), identical with the dextrorotatory constituent of Beckmann's "inverted menthone " ; the amount of these two menthones constituting about 50 per cent. of the oil ; (9) a sesquiterpene alcohol, about 2 per cent. ;(10) esters of formic, acetic, octoic, decylic, and salicylic acids, and the ester of a dibasic acid of the probable formula C,H,,O,, together with formic, butyric, octoic, and decylic acids in the free state; all these esters and acids being present only in small amount. 80, "Studies in the camphane series. Part XXIII. Oximes of camphorylsemicarbazide and camphorylazoimide." By Martin Onslow Forster and Hans Eduard Fierz.CHON(The oxime of camphorylsemicarbaxide, C8HI4< I NH,)*CO*NH,, CNOH obtained from camphoryl-$-semicarbazide and hydroxylamine acetate, crystallises in lustrous, hexagonal plates, melts at 242O, and has [a]D 105.4" in glacial acetic acid; an isomeric oxinze, C,,H2,0,N,, produced by the action of cold dilute sulphuric acid on the foregoing substance, crystallises in lustrous needleP, has [a]D -37.7' in pyridine, and melts at 222'. The benxylidene compound, ClsH2402N4,the m-nitrobenxylidene compound, C18H2304N5,and the furfui*yZidene compound, C,,H,,O,N,, melt at 205', 215', and 225' respectively. 115 The oxim of camphorglaxoimide, C,HI4< I melts at 84O, and,C:NOH’ unlike camphorylazoimide itself, resists the action of cold alcoholic potash; on heating with this agent, hydrazoic acid is eliminated instead of nitrogen, 81.“The action of ethyl oxalate on thioacetanilide and its homologues.” By Siegfried Ruhemann. Homologues of dithioxanthoxalanil have been obtained by the action of sodium ethoxide and ethyl oxalate on the thioaceto- derivatives of p-toluidine, m-xy lidin e, and P-naph thylamine respect- ively. With caustic potash, they behave like dithioxanthoxalanil. The action of zinc dust and acetic acid on these compounds is unlike the behaviour of the reducing agent towards xanthoxalanil and its homologues which absorb six atoms of hydrogen (Ruhemann, Tmns., 1906, 89, 1851) and yield colourless substances, whereas dithio-xanthoxalanil is transformed into C,,H,,O,N, (grey, shiny plates which decompose at about 240’).In this case, therefore, no addition of hydro- gen takes place, but the whole of the sulphur is substituted by hydro- gen ;the following constitutional formula is therefore suggested for the compound : CH2*fH(?O-cO>NPh. The substance, when digested with alkalis or alkali carbonates, yields blue salts of a red compound which has not yet been carefully examined, but is probably isomeric with the reduction product, C,,H,,O,N,, of dithioxanthoxalanil. This phenomenon resombIes the transformation of the yellow product of the reaction between acetylacetone and phenylpropiolyl chloride into its red isomeride, which also yields blue salts (see Ruhemann and Merriman, Truizs., 1905, 87, 1383).82. “The action of tribromopropane on the sodium derivative of ethyl acetoacetate.” By Thomas Edward Gardner and William Henry Perkin, jun, When tribromopropane reacts with the sodium derivative of ethyl-acetoacetate the principal product is ethyl y-bromoallykacetoucetate, CH,:CBr*CH,*CH(COMe)CO,Et,which distils at 120’ (8 mm.) and, when hydrolysed with alcoholic potash, yields Av-butinene-a-cclrboxylic acid, CHiC*CH,*CH,*CO,H(m. p. 55-57’). Hydrolysis with dilute sulphuric acid converts ethyl y-bromoallylacetoacetate into y-bromo-aZZyZclcetom, CH,:CBr*CH,-CH,*COMe,which distils at 83O (8 mm.), yields a liquid oxime and a crystalline semkarbaxone (m.p. 150°), and 116 when reduced with sodium and alcohol is converted into 2-hydroxy-5-hexene (methylcroton ylcarbinol), C'H,:CH*CH,*CH(OH)Me. Alcoholic potash hydrolyses y-bromoallylacetone with elimination of hydrogen bromide and formation of Av-butinene methyl ketone, CHiC*CH,*CH,*COMe. This ketone distils at 149O (749 mm.), yields an oxime (m. p. 48O) and a wmicarbaxone (m. p. 136O), and gives a yellow precipitate of the copper derivative when its aqueous solution is mixed with ammoniacal cuprous chloride. The sodium derivative of ethyl methylacetoacetate reacts readily with tribromopropane, and the ethyl methyl-y-bromoallylacetoacetate, CH,:CBr*CH,*CMe(COMe)CO,Et,thus produced, yields As-pentinem-P-carboxylic acid, CHiC*CH,*CHMe*CO,H (b.p. 207O), when it is hydro-lgsed with alcoholic potash. Ethyl yy-dibromodinllylacetocetate, (CH,: CBr *CH,),C( COMe)*CO,Et) is produced in small quantity when tribromopropane is digested with the sodium derivative of ethyl acetoacetate. It is a viscid oil which distils at 175-180" (8 mm.), and is hydrolysed by alcoholic potash with Format ion of Aat-heptadi-inene-8-carboxylic wid, (CHiC*CH,),CH*C0,H. This acid melts at 48O and is converted by boiling with water into m-toluic acid (compare Proc., 1906, 22, 133). 83. '(Indican. Preliminary notice." By Arthur George Perkin and William Popplewell Bloxam. Indican, first described by Schunck (Phil.Mag., [iv], 10,74,1855, and ibid., 15,122, 1858), has recently (Proc.R.Akad.Wetennsch.Amsterdam, 1900, 2, 520) been shown by HoogewerE and Ter Meulen to be a well-defined, crystalline substance. As the result of experience gained by a study of the process of the latter chemists, the authors have devised a comparatively simple method for the isolation of this glucoside, by which a largely increased yield of the compound is obtained. The air- dried leaves of the Indigofera Sumtrc-na are extracted with acetone, the Bxtract partially evaporated, and diluted with light petroleum which precipitates impure indican as a syrup; this after treatment with water is filtered, and the filtrate on concentration in a vacuum deposits the glucoside in a crystalline condition. The yield approximates to about 50 per cent.of that extracted by the acetone, although certain precautions are necessary. This process can bo carried out entirely in the cold, and the contention of Schunck (Chem. News, 1900, 82, 176) that his compound was distinct from the crystalline variety is thus evidently untenable. Experiments by Hoogewerff and Ter Meulen's method (a)and the acetone process (b) have shown that the leaves of Imdigofera arrecta also contain the same indican, but in this case the preparation is more troublesome owing partly to the presence of kaempferitrin (Proc., 1906, 22, 130), but more especially to that of a colourless, sugar-like compound, m. p. 186-1 87”, deposited in prisms from its alcoholic solution by means of ether. It resembles dulcite, but probably has the formula C6HI2O5(found, C = 43.56 ; H =7.44).Numerous air-dried preparations of indican melted at 57-58’, and samples obtained through the kindness of Prof, van Romburgh of Utrecht, and Prof. Beyerinck of Delft had also this property, so that the rn. p. 51O of Hoogemerff and Ter Meulen may be a clerical error. When dried in a vacuum, indican fuses at about 100-lO1°, as stated by these chemists, but this appears to be due to the presence of water, for on further heating resolidification ensues, the product finally melting at 176-177O. Analysis of indican dried at 100’ was in agreement with the formula C,,H170,N(Hand t. M) (found, C =56.83 ;H =5-83), and when dried in a vacuum and allowed to regain a constant weight in moist air the figures approximated to C,,H170,N,2~H,0 (found, C=49*89; H=6.67; N=4.35;H2O=13.80).84. ‘‘Cupric nitrite.” By Prafulla Chasdra Ray. A dilute solution of cupric nitrite slowly absorbs oxygen from the air and is converted into nitrate, following the law of mass-action. When a concentrated solution of cupric nitrite, however, is evaporated over sulphuric acid, even under diminished pressure,. it partially decom- poses according to the equation, 3Cu(NO,), = Cu(NO,), + 2CuO + 4NO. The formula assigned to basic nitrite of copper by Hampe is un-tenable. 85. “The action of hydrogen peroxide on potassium cyanide.” By Orme Masson. The author finds that (1) hydrogen peroxide and potassium cyanide react exothermically in aqueous solution at the ordinary temperature.(2) The peroxide is reduced without escape of oxygen so long as residual cyanide is present, but any excess of peroxide is afterwards decomposed into water and oxygen. (3) The products of the oxidation of the cyanide, which do not include oxamide or oxalate, are potassium cyanate and potassium and ammonium carbonates. Cyanate is the primary product and tends to be converted by hydrolysis into carbonate through the catalytic agency of the peroxide. 118 (4) A part of the cyanide is converted by hydrolysis, without oxidation, into potassium formate and ammonia. (5) The total oxidation product (cyanate plus carbonate) accounts for about four-fifths of the original cyanide, and the hydrolysis pro- duct (formate) for about one-fifth.(6) The curve representing the progress of the reduction of per-oxide, so long as unchanged cyanide remains, is of the second order dxand accords with the equation -==(A -x) (B-~),where A is thedt initial concentration of the peroxide, B that of the cyanide, and x the measure of the peroxide reduced, or cyanide oxidised, at time t. B -x is the sum of the residual cyanide (B-9) and its hydrolysed product (w). (‘7) The hydrolysed product (w)reaches its maximum and final value (JV=0*2B, nearly) before the completion of the oxidising action, and thereafter the slopes of the peroxide and cyanide curves are equal. The rate of hydrolysis is expressed by the empirical rule that d_”,kl(A 4)(F-w).dt (8) If the solutions contain at the outset the ultimate products of the action itself, as well as fresh cyanide and peroxide, these products do not exert the influence indicated by the above equations.Hence some unknown intermediate condition probably occurs while the action is in progress. (9) The addition of caustic potash or sulphuric acid at the outset greatly retards the whole action, but the addition of ammonia has very little effect. 86. The reaction between calcium carbonate and chlorine water.” By Arthur Richardson. The author finds that cold chlorine water decomposes calcium carbonate with formation of calcium chloride and hypochlorous acid until 1 part of carbonate is dissolved in 30 parts of water, as shown by Williamson ; CaCO, +2C1, +H,O =CaC1, + 2HC10 + CO,.At a later stage, calcium chloride, chlorate, and hypochlorite are formed, together with hypochlorous acid. This process goes on until from 40 to 50 per cent. of calcium chloride is obtained; beyond this point calcium carbonate is insoluble in chlorine water. When chlorine water containing calcium carbonate in suspension is heated, oxygen is evolved and calcium chloride and chlorate are formed. In this case also, hypochlorous acid appears to be first produced, a part being then oxidised to calcium chlorate, another part reduced to 119 chloride, and a third part further reduced to free chlorine, whilst the hydrogen and part of the oxygen combine to form water, and the remainder of the oxygen is liberated.87. “The density of hydrogen chloride.” By Robert Whytlaw aray. Guye and Ter-Gazarian (Cony& rend., 1906,143, 1233) have recently redetermined the density of this gas, and have calculated by means of it the physical atomic weight of chlorine, Some months ago the author made a series of weighings with the same object in view, but the results did not exhibit as good an agreement with each other as had been expected, and hence publication was deferred. At the request of Professor Guye, the results of the first series of measurements are now communicated. The gas was evolved by the action of pure con-centrated sulphuric acid on pure solid sodium chloride in a vacuum, and was purified by fractional distillation at a low temperature. Six experiments were made, The highest value obtained for the weight of a litre of the gas at 0” arid 760 mm.in London was 1.64091 grams, and the lowest 1.64026 grams. The mean value, corrected to lat. 45, is 1.6397 grams, which is practically identical with the value 1,6393 grams found by Prof. Guye. 88. (( Di-iodocamphor.” By James Ernest Marsh and Robert de Jersey Fleming Struthers. In a former paper (I’rccns., 1905, 87, lSSZ), the authors stated that alkaline mercury cyanide did not form a derivative with camphor similar to that which it gives with certain other ketones. When, how- ever, camphor is acted on by an alkaline solution of mercuric iodide containing potassium iodide, a mercury derivative of camphor is ob-tained. This substance is insoluble in water, but soliible in alcohol, and when treated with iodine gives mercuric iodide and di-iodocarnphor.The latter substance forms brittle, yellow crystals melting at 1OSo, and soluble in alcohol, benzene, chloroform, or light petroleum. Its solution in chloroform is dextrorotatory. It is stable in the crystalline form, but its solution is decomposed by the action of light with separation of iodine. 89. u Acyl-$-derivatives of iminothiolcarbamic acid and their isomerides.” By Augustus Edward Dixon and John Taylor, The authors have made a further study of the additive compounds produced from acylogens and thioureas, and of the migration of acyl 120 groups within the resultant molecules (Dixon and Hawthorne, Trans., 1907, 91,122).Ethyl chlorocarbonate unites with phenylthionrea, yielding the hydrochloride of a feeble base, NH:C(NHPh)*S*CO,Et, carbethoxylic iminophenylthiolcarbamide (otherwise, carbethoxy-$-phenyltbiourea), which gives a picrate. When liberated from its hydrochloride, the base rapidly undergoes intramolecular change, the carbethoxy-radicle exchanging places with the hydrogen of the phenylamino-group, and thus furnishing the isomeric cca-carbethoxyphenylthiocarbamide, CO,Et*NPh*CS*NH,, m. p. 133'. The hydrochlorides from 0-and p-tolylthioureas yield aa-homologues, melting at 150' and 149O respectively. Aryl chlorocarbonates also unite with ary I-monosubstituted thioureas; the products, on withdrawal of the halogen acid, yielding aa-di-substituted thiocarbamides, for example, CO,Ph*NPh*CS*NH,.Tolu.oy1 chloride uiiites with thiourea and with phenylthiourea ;the hydrochloride, NH:C(NHPh)*S*CO*CH,Ph,HCl,m. p. 131°,gives on treatment with calcium carbonate and alcohol the compound, CH,Ph*CO*NPh*CS*NH,, m. p. 11 4O (corr,), isomeric with the base ; when melted, it undergoes further intramolecular change into another iaomeride, CH,Ph*CO*NH*CS*NHPh, m.p. 110O. Attempts to isolate aa-benzoylphenylthiocarbamide failed, owing to the readiness with wbich the ah-form is produced. Palmityl chloride unites with thiourea and with phenylthiourea; from the latter combination, by withdrawal of the combined hydrochloric acid, aa-palmitylphenylthiocarbamide may be obtained. Phenylbenzylcarbamic chloride, CH,Ph*NPh *COCl, does not appear to yield a hydrochloride with phenylthiourea, the mixture, when warmed, decomposing with formation of benzylaniline and evolution of carbonyl sulphide.Every aa-disu bstituted monoacyl thiocarbamide so far examined gives thiocyanic acid when treated with strong caustic alkali ; the supposed bases, NH:C(NHPh)*S*CO,Me, &c. (Dixon, Trans.,1903, 83, 550), respond to this test;, and hence must be regarded as aa-thio- carbamides. 121 ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. I. Donations. Abegg, Richurd; The electrolytic dissociation theory. Authorised translation by Carl L. von Ende. pp. vii+lSO. New York. (Becd. 12/4/7.) From the Publishers : Messrs John Wiley and Sons. American Electrochemical Society. Transactions.Vol. X. Philadelphia 1906. (Reference.) From Dr. F. Mollwo Perkin. Berthelot, Murcellin. Trait6 pratique de l'analyse des gaz. pp. ix + 483. ill. Paris 1906. (Recd. 13/4/7.) From the Author. Clowes, Frank, and Coleman, J. Bernard. 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Their materials, manufacture, and properties. pp. xxxiv + 712. ill. New York 1905. (Recd. 3/4/7.) Paracelsus, Theophrastus. [Pitracelsus his Archidoxis : comprised in ten books, disclosing the genuine way of making Quintessences, Arcanums, Magisteries, Elixirs, &c. . .. And finally his seven books, of the degrees and compositions of receipts, and natural tbings. Faithfully Englished, and Published by J.H. Oxon, London 1661.1 pp. [vi] + 158 +[ii] + 176 [wrongly numbered 1711. Title-page miss- ing. (Beference.) 122 111. Paw@ le ts. Day, Arthuv L. Mineral solution and fusion under high tempera- tures and pressures. (From the PiftTi Yearbook of the Carnegie Institu- tion, Washington.) 1907. Gowland, William. Copper and its alloys in prehistoric times, (From the J. Anthyopologicak Inst., 36, 1906.) Lauder, Alexander. Variation in the composition of milk. pp. 52. Edinburgh 1906. Richards, Theodore William, and Behr, Gustavus Edward. The electromotive force of iron under varying conditions, and the effect of occluded hydrogen.Carnegie Institution of Was?hqton, Publication No. 61. 1906. Richards, T?beodore William, and Forbes, George Shnnon. Energy changes involved in the dilution of zinc and cadmium amalgams. Carnegie Institution of RTu,shington, Publieutiorb No. 56. 1906. White, Falter P. The constancy of thermo-elements. (From the Pl~ysicccl Review, 23, 1906.) At the next Ordinary Meeting on Thursday,May Snd, at 8.30 p.m., there will be a ballot for the election of Fellows, and the following papers will be communicated : ‘‘ The chemical action of exradio. Part I. Action on distilled water.” By Sir W. Ramsay.‘‘ Freezing-point curves of the menthyl mandelates.” By A. Findlay and E. AX. Hickmans. “ The constitution of homo-eriodictyol.A crystalline substance from eriodictyon leaves.” By F. B. Power and F. Tutin. “ The relation between valency and heats of combustion. Pre-liminary note.” By G. Le Bas. 123 CERTIFICATES OF CANDIDATES FOE ELECTION AT THE NEXT BALLOT. N.B.-The names of those who sign from (‘General Knowledge ” are printed in itulics. The follotving Candidates have been proposed for election. A ballot will be held on Thursday, May 2nd, 1907. Allan, John Campbell, 91, Norse Itoad, Scotstoun, Glasgow. Analytical Chemist. For 10 years assistant in the private Laboratory of Messrs. R. R. Tatlock & Thomson, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, Glasgow, and for 2 years was chief assistant. During the last 2 years was Chemist to the Cawnpore Sugar Works, Ltd., Cawnpore.R. R. Tatlock. Harry Dunlop. R. T. Thomson. John Clark. James McLeod. Bailey, Francis James, Findon Hill, Sacriston, Durham. Teacher. Inter. B.Sc. London University. At present Lecturer under the Durham County Council in Theoretical and Practical Inorganic Chemistry, and Student in the Sunderland Technical College with a view to taking Chemistry (Honours) in B.Sc. Exam. (London). Formerly Student at Barrow, and Royal College of Science, and Teacher of Chemistry in Organised School of Science, Bruce Grove, N. W. Meredith. A, Crabtree. A. Houldersbaw. A. R. Gower. Richd. Spencer.Ball, William Robert, 48, Cambridge Road, Thornaby-on-Tees. Science Teacher. A Chemistry Teacher at Secondary School, Stockton-on-Tees (1896-1 907).B.Sc. (London) in Chemistry, &c. J. G. Taylor. J. Seabury Smythe. J. Handby Ball. H. M. Atkinson. Walter Thorp. Caldwell, Kenneth 8omerville, Demonstrator in Chemistry, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, E.C. 124 1851 Exhibitioner; Graduate of the Univ. of Wales (B.Sc., 1st Class Hons.), and of Leipzig (Ph.D., Summa cum Lauds). Kennedy J. P. Orton. James J. Dobbie. W. H. Hurtley. Alexander Lauder. H. W. M. Willett. Cameron, Alexander Thorn-, Burtonhill, Malmesbury, Wilts. Research Student in Chemistry. M.A., B.Sc. (Edin.), 1851 Exhibition Scholar (Edin., 1906), Assistant to the Lecturer in Chemistry, Surgeons’ Hall, and Dick Veterinary College, Edinburgh, 1904-6. Author of: (i) “Variations in the Crystallisation of Potassium Hydrogen Succinate,” Proc.R.S.E., 25, 401-403 ;(ii)‘(Constitution of Complex Salts. I. Derivatives of the Sesquioxides,” Proc. R.S.E., 25, 722-737. Hugh Marshall. Alex. Crum Brown, Leonard Dobbin. William Ramsay. Samuel Smiles. Cunningham, John Arthur, B.A., R.U.I. & Cantab., A.R.C.Sc.I., Formerly 1851 Exhibition Research Scholar, Cambridge, The Observatory, Alipore, Calcutta. Professor of Chemistry, Presidency College, Calcutta. Author of “A Contribution to the Theory of the Order of Crystallisation of Minerals in Igneous Rocks,” Proc. Roy. Dublin Xoc., IX., p. 383,1901 ;‘;On an Attempt to Detect the Ionisation of Solutions by the Action of Light and Rantgen Rays,” Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc., XI., p.431, 1902 ; ‘‘The Discharge of Electricity through ,Gases and the Tem- perature of the Electrodes,” Phil. Mag., Dec., 1902 ; ‘‘ The Cathode Fall from Hot Carbon,” Phil. Mag., Feb., 1905, &c. W. N. Hartley. W. E. Adeney. P. C. R&y. Richard J. Moss. James H. Pollok. S. Ruhemann. Hugh Ramage. Duckworth, Samuel, B.Sc., 78, Alexandra Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk. Lecturer in Science and Secondary School Teacher. Graduated B.Sc. (Victoria) and obtained M.Sc. in Chemistry. Lecturer in Chemistry in the Lowestoft Technical School. Harold B. Dixon. G. H. Bailey. D. L. Chapman. Norman Smith. W. H. Perkin, jnr. J. E.Thorpe. 125 Fox, John Jacob, 6, Alkham Road, Stamford Hill, N. Analyst in Government Laboratory.Royal College of Science, 1897-99 ;Government Laboratory since 1899 ; East London College since 1899. T. E. Thorpe. H. W. Davis. E. Grant Hooper. J. T. Hewitt. C. Smith. Gibson, Charles Stanley, B.A., 45, Shakespeare Street, Nanchester. Engaged in research work at the Municipal School of Technology, Manchester. Second class Final Honour, School of Natural Science (Chemistry), Oxford University, 1905. Formerly, Natural Science Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. W. J. Pope. W. W. Fisher. John Watts. J. E. Marsh. Henry A. Miers. D. H. Nagel. S. J. Peachey. Gregory, Joshua Craven, 126, Woodlands Road, Glasgow. Analytical and Consulting Chemist and Metallurgist. B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C. Author of ‘‘A Short Introduction to the Theory of Electrolytic Dissociation ” (Longmans, 1905), and ‘‘ First Steps in Quantitative Analysis ” (Edward Arnold, 1905).Joint author with F. W. Richardson, Esq., F.I.C., &c., oE “ Tartaric Acids and Tartrates, their Polarimetric Estimation,” J.S.C.1. Analytical experience in the laboratories of F. W. Richardson, Esq. (Bradford City Analyst.), and of T. V. Hughes, Esq., Birmingham; also at Kidderminster School of Science. At present partner in Robertson and Gregory, 128, Wellington Street, Glasgow, analysts. Also had experience in teach-ing chemistry at Kidderminster School oE Science, &c. F. W. Richardson, A. Jaff6. Frederick D. S. Robertson. T. Vaughan Hughes, J. B. Cohen. Hall, Joseph Henry, 84, The Grove, Wandsworth, S.W.Schoolmaster. Student in Chemical Laboriitories for 8 years. Bachelor of Science, London University. Board of Education Cer-tificates in Theor. Chemistry, Stages 2 and 3 Inorg., Stage 2 126 Organic; Prac. Chem., Stage 3, and Part I. Hons. Inorg., Stage 3 Organic. Alfred Greeves. Frank E. Weston. H. R. Ellis. W. G. Sewell. H. Stanley Redgrove. Harrington, Arthur George, ‘‘Rochford,” Westbury Road, Ealing, W. Chemist. Major examination of the Pharmaceutical Society. Intermediate Examination of the Institute of Chemistry, and at present working under Mr. E. W. Lucas, F.I.C., F.C.S. William Ramsay. Edward C. Cyril Baly. Samuel Smiles. R. W. Gray. N. T. M. Wilsmore. E. W. Lucas. Arthur W. Crossley. Harvey, Thomas Featherstone, 84, Henry Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham.Analytical Chemist. Pharmaceutical Chemist (by examinations). Author of the following and other papers : “The Wijs Method of Determining the Iodine Value of Oils and Fats ’’ (Journ. Xoc. Chem. Ind., 1902, 1437) ; ‘‘ Determination of the Iodine Absorption of Oil of Turpentine ” (J.X.C.I., 1904, 413) ;‘rDetection and Estimation of Arsenic by the Gutzeit Test ” (Chemist and Druggist, 1905, I. 168) ; “Temperature Corrections for Use with the Abbe Refractometer, &C.” J.S.C.I., 1905, 717) ; “The Composition of Nux Vomica Fat ” (Harvey and Wilkie, J.X.C.I., 1905, 718). Analyst and Works Chemist to manufacturing firms for the past 12 years. R. M. Caven. Harold B. Holthouse. Charles Spackman.P.Stanley Kipping. L. Archbutt. Peter NcicEwan. Hope, Geoffrey Dodleston, Heath Heys, Oxton, Birkenhead. Student, working at present under Prof. Donnan at Liverpool University. B.Sc. (Victoria and Liverpool) ; Ph.D. (Halle, Germany). J. Campbell Brown. F. G. Donnan. A. W. Titherley. W. ColI ingwood Wi1liams. Prosper E.Marsden. Houghton, Edward, Glenhyrst, 106, Saltergate, Chesterfield. Analytical Chemist (Iron Works). Matriculated at London, 1898. Lancashire County Council Science Scholar, 1900 ; 3 years’ Metallurgical Training at Manchester School of Technology ;4 years’ 127 experience as Assistant Works Chemist to the Darwen and Mostyn Iron Co., Darwen; 2 years' experience as Head Chemist to the Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Chesterfield.Author of paper on the " Chemistry of Cast Iron," British Foundrymen Assoc., 1906. Reason for desiring admission, to keep in touch with pure science and other branches of applied science than my own. Joseph West. Robert H. Pickard. James Smith. John Hunley. SamueI Banner. Hubbard, The Hon. Raymond Egerton, Addington Manor, Winslow, Bucks. Undergraduate of Magdalen College, Oxford. Harold Hartley. D. H. Nagel. T. S. Moore. A. F. Walden. N. V. Sidgwick. Humphries, Herbert Brooke Perren, 11'7,Avenell Road, Highbury, N. Science Master, Enfield Grammar School. B.Sc. (Hons. Chem.) ; A.R.C.Sc. (Chem.). Science Master, Enfield Grammar School. Engaged in research under the guidance of Dr. McKenzie at the Birkbeck College.William A. Tilden. J. C. Philip. M.0. Forster. Alex. McKenzie. G. T. Morgan. Henry Wren. Lewis, Carl, P.O. Box 36, .Johannesburg. Chemist. Chemist and Druggist. Member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Practised Pharmacy for four years in Johannesburg. Studied for one year at the London College of Pharmacy, where I was medallist in Pharmacy. George Gordon Watt. Thomas Tyrer. Frederick W. Evans. David J. Williams. Herbert A. Mills. McConnan, James, Danehurst, Greenbank Drive, Liverpool. Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in Organic Chemistry, University of Liverpool. Degrees : M.Sc., Victoria and Liverpool ; Ph.D., Jena. Publications : ''Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Pyrazole " (Dissertation, Jena, 1904) ;'' Labile isomerism among Acgl Derivatives 128 of Salicylamide ” (in conjunction with Dr.A. W. Titherley), Ib*ans., 1906, 80,1318. J. Campbell Brown. Prosper H. Marsden. A. W. Titherley. F. G. Donnan. W. Collingwood Williams. Mitchell, Herbert Victor, 26, Brook6eld Avenue, Walthamst ow. Analytical and Research Chemist. One time analyst and research chemist to Messrs. Burgoyne, Burbidges cpt Co. ;two and a half years in Sir Boverton Redwood’s Laboratory, and subsequently Assistant Demonstrator at East London College. Author, or part-author, of several papers published by the Society. J. T. Hemitt. Boverton Redwood. C. Smith. A. E. Dunstan. T. W. Firth Clark. Rhodes, Percy Joseph, Bridge House, Church, Lancashire.Technical Chemist, Bleacher, Dyer, and Calico Printer. Studied at the Macclesfield School of Science, Mechanics Institute, Stockport, and the Stockport Technical School. At present Technical and Works Manager for Messrs. F. Steiner & Go., Ltd., Turkey Red Dyers, Bleachers, and Calico Printers, Church Works. Alfred J. King. William Marshall. W. H. Pennington. L. G. Radcliffe. Christr. Rawson. J.C. Cain. A. G. Green. Rixon, Frederic William, M.Sc., Ph.D., Powderham Road, Newton Abbot, Devonshire. County Science Instructor. Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Merchant Venturers’ College, Bristol. B.Sc. with 1st Class Honours in Chemistry, Victoria University. Fellow of the University. Ph.D., Giessen. Joint author of following papers : “ On the Specific Heats of Carbon Dioxide at High Temperatures ” (Brit.Assoc.) with Prof. H. B. Dixon ; ‘(Ueber die Kathodische Ausscheidung von Blei ” (Zeitsch.Elektrochern.) with Prof. Elbs. Harold B. Dixon. G. H. Bailey. W. H. Perkin, jnr. Norman Smith. J. F. Thorpe. Robinson, John, Agricultural College, Aspatria, Cumberland. Analyst, and Lecturer in Chemistry (Agric. and Pure), National 1'29 Diploma in Agric., and National Diploma in Dairying. Advanced Certificates (Science and Art) in Pure and Agric. Chemistry. Three years a Student at the Agric. College, Preston. Now Lecturer (and Analyst) in Agric. and Pure Chemistry at Agric. College, Aspatria, Gumberl and, R. R. Swann, R.Henry Jones. T. W. Fagan. X.Home Collins.John Alexanhr. Smith, Sydney William, 76, Norroy Road, Putney, S.W. Assistant Assayer at the Royal Mint. Bachelor of Scienee (London). Associate of the Royal Scliool of Mines. 1899-1902, Assistant to the late Sir William Roberts-Austen. 1902--1907, Assistant Assayer at the Royal Mint. '1'. K. Rose. John Phelps. W. Goaland. 6.Brierley. W. H. Merrett. F. W. Harbord. E. 0. Courtman. 62. T.iMorgale. Sturrock, George Colleymore, Aruvankad, Nilgiris, India. Captain, Royal Artillery. Assistant Sluperintendent, Indian Cordite Factory. Studied at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (2 years), aild at Ordnance College, Woolwich (1 year) under Professor Modgkinson. W. R. Kodgkinson, William Rintoul. Robert Robertson. Arthur H. Coote, J S.X,Brame, Xutcliffe, Sam Mortimer, 4,Clive Place, Bradford. Analytical Chemist. Partner in the firm of XTIitcliffe and Murgittt oyd, Analytical and Consulting Chemists. Assistant to C. Rawson. Esq., F.I.C. (Analytical Consulting Chemist), for two and B half years. Chief assistant for four and a half years to Messrs. Rawhon and Petracaek. Formerly student in ths Chemistry and Dyeing Department at the Bradford Technical College, c. Rawson, Josl~utt.Knowles. Ad, Liebmann. Wdliam 2. Kay. Thorp Vlfhitaker. FK €1. Pennington. IQi&nrn. @. White, Tam, Nicholas, Lucton School, Herefordshire. Lecturer in Science and Mathematics. One year studeut at Univer-sity Tutorial College, London; 4 years student at St. George’s Hospital, London ; 4 years and 3 months Senior Master in Science and Mnths.Passed Intermediate Exam. in Chemistry, Physics, and Zoology. J. Addyman Gardner. Frsnk R. Last. Chas. Slater. E. G. Macrtiqt. Edmund Lamb. Tebb,William Scott, Sandfield, Putney Heath Lane, S.W. Public Analyst for Southwark. M.A., M.D. (Cantab.), D.P.H., F.I.C. Alexander Scott. W. D. Malliburton. James Dewar. 0. Rosenheim, John M. Thornson. Tonner, William Griffiths, 26, Gordon Road, Kingston-on-Thames. Schoolmaster. B.Sc. (Univ. of Wales) ; Research Student at Birkbeck College, London; and Science Master at Tifins’ Suhool, Kingston. Alex. McKenzie. Claude M. Thompson. Henry Wren. E. P. Perman. Maurice Blood. The following Certificate has been authorised for pre-entation to Ballot by the Council Tinder Bye-law I (3) ; Dealy, Thomas Kirkman, Craigmin East,, Magazine Gap, Hongkong.Second Master, Queen’s College, Hongkong (Hongkong Civil Service). As a Student in Training, passed the Sonth Kensington Advanced Course of Inorganic Chemistry, and went through a year’h laboratory practice in Inorganic Chemical Analysis (Qualitative), metals and non-metals. Take a lively interest in Criernicsl Science, both as student and practical teacher. T.Luxton. ~~ ~ R. CLAY AND SONS, LTD., BREAD ST. HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUI‘FOLN.
ISSN:0369-8718
DOI:10.1039/PL9072300095
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年代:1907
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