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Proceedings of the Chemical Society, London,
Volume 14,
Issue 192,
1898,
Page 89-94
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Issued 7/4/1898 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY. EDITED BY THE SECRETARIES. No. 192. Session 1897-8. March 31st, 1898. Aniversary Meeting. Professor Dewar, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. Mr. W. G. MCMILLAN were appointed Scrutators, and Dr. THORNE and a ballot was opened for the election of Officers and Council for the ensuing year, the ballot being closed at the conclusion of the President’s address. The PRESIDENT,in beginning his address, remarked that the papers submitted to the Society during the past session included original work in all branches of Chemical Science. They have been con-tributed, not only from the laboratories of the older Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but also from the University Colleges and other institutions throughout the country.The publications of the Society are, therefore, a complete record of English Chemical Science, and of the researches pursued at different educational centres through- out the country. The Proceedings is now the medium of publication, not only of abstracts of papers which will subsequently appear in the Trmsuctions, but also of the rapid publication of short papers and preliminary notices. The rule, which came into force last year, requiring that authors shall deposit their papers and abstracts with the Secretaries before they are officially announcecl for reading at a meeting, has worked well; it has made it possible to expedite the publication of the Proceedings, and to send advance proofs to the authors for correction.The meetings have been well attended, the meeting-room being often quite full. Occasionally, interesting discussions have taken place, but as so many of our papers deal with details and matters of fact, anything like a debate must necessarily be of rare occurrence. 90 Yhe following past Presidents, LorJ Ylayfair, Dr. A. IV. Williamsoh, Sir E. Frankland, Dr. W. Odling, Sir F. A. Abel, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, Sir J. H. Gilbert, this year complete a connection of 50 years with the Society. To mark its sense of the great services they have rendered to Chemical Science, the Council has resolved to entertain them, in the name of the Society, at a dinner on June 9th, given to commemorate their half-century of Fellowship of the Society. During the past year the Council has had under consideration the question of a revision of the Bye-laws.A Committee was appointed early in the year, which has met several times during the session, but, in view of the wider questions which have occupied the attention of the Council, they have not been able to complete their report. During the session a section of the Fellows residing at a distance from London have expressed a desire to take part in the election of Officers and Council, without being forced to undertake a journey to London to register their votes at the Annual General Meeting. A Memorial was drawn up, asking the Council to prepare and lay before the Society a Bye-law enabling Fellows to record their votes by post.This Memorial mas signed by 540 Fellows, of whom 400 resided outside the London district. In the meantime, the Bye-law Committee had taken steps to ascertain the powers of the Society in this matter under their Charter. They were legally advised that any Bye-law framed to admit voting by post or proxy would be repugnant to the Charter, and therefore invalid. When the Memorial was presented to the Council, a covering letter contained another suggestion, viz., that it might probably be necessary to obtain a Supplemental Charter, in order to enable the Council to carry out the wishes of the Memorialists. This suggestion was seriously considered by the Council, and further legal opinion was taken on the subject. They were advised that no application for a Supplemental Charter which was not supported by the practically unanimous wish of the Fellows would be listened to by the Privy Council.They have since been further advised that it would be uha vires on their part to expend any part of the funds of the Society in applying for a Supple-mental Charter, All the documents relating to the Memorial and the various legal opinions, together with the decisions of the Council, have already appeared in the Proceedings, pp. 1, 33, 61 (this volume), The following eminent foreign chemists, whose names are familiar to us all as of those who have advanced knowledge in various departments of our science, were elected Foreign Members in January of this year, bringing the total number of Foreign Members of the Society up to 38: Professors S.Arrhenius; Th. Curtius; A. P. N. Franchimont ;W. Homer ;W. Markownikoff; N. A. Menschutkin ;K. Moissan; W. Ostwald ;F. M. Eaoult ; I. Ittomsen ;W. Spring ;L. J. !3 I Troost ; P. Waage; J. D. van der Waals. The Society has lost a Foreign Member by death : Professor Victor Meyer, one of the most brilliant and original of the modern school of chemists. The Kekule Memorial Lecture has been delivered by Professor Japp. It has been resolved that the Memorial Lectures delivered up to 1896 shall be bound and published as Vol. I. of the Society’s Memorial Lectures as soon as possible. The Council have nominated the Treasurer and Editor as delegates for the Society to the National Committee appointed by the Royal Society to prepare a Catalogue of Scientific Literature.The remainder of the President’s address was devoted to an account of recent advances in Low Temperature Research, which will sub- sequently appear in the Transactions. The numerical strength of the Society was as follows :-Number of Fellows, March 31st, 1897 .................. 2079 ,, since elected ........................ 11497 39 :, reinstated by Council ............... 4 2197 Removed on account of non-paymentyof two annual subscriptions ........................... 17 Withdrawn ........................................ 22 Deaths ............................................. 18 -57 Number of Fellows, March 31st, 1898 .................. 2140 Foreign Members ............................................. 38 Fourteen Foreign Members were elected during the year. The names of those removed were :-J.Burgess ;T. R. Carswell ; L. B. Dutson; W. T. Gibbs; R. B. Greaves; T. B. Hall; E. H. Hill; P. Hudson; C. W. Lee; D. C. Mackenzie; W. M. Martin; R. A. Rouillard ; J. W. Slater ; J. W. Smith ; R. M.Sumner ;W. Virtue ; W. H. Walden. The following have withdrawn :-C. L. Barnes ; J. C. Cain ; W. Johnstoun Coombes ; E. C. Copas ;J. H. Freeman ;D. St. J. Grant ; A. L. Guiterman ;James Hall ; John Howard ;R. E. Hughes ;J. W. James ;A. Zuty ;A. Kinninmont ;D. J. Morgan ; E. W. Napper ; E. W. Prevost ;Frederick Quincke ;10. H. Richards ;A. E. Richardson ; R. Routledge; W. E. Sim; E. E. H.Thorne; C. A. Warren. The following have died:-J. J. Bowrey; G. W. Child; E. H. Gas-kell; B. H. Gibbins; W. A. L. Hammersley; 5. J. Harris; Walter Jardine; G. A. Keyworth; M. H. Lackersteen ;Samuel Lees; Herman Lescher ; Thomas Mitchell ; Howard Newton ; F. M. Eimmington ; J. W. Rodger ; Taraprasanna Roy ; W. J, Saint ; James Napier. 92 The number oE communications made to the Society during the year was 127. One hundred and fourteen papers were published in the Transmtions for 1897, occupying 1204 pages, whereas in the preceding year 117 papers were published, occupying 1702 pages. The following were the statistics relating to the Abstracts. PARTI. Pages. No. of Abstracts. Organic Chemistry .............................. .*.648 1049 PART11. General and Physical Chemistry ............... 324 Inorganic Chemistry .............................. 270 Mineralogical Chemistry ........................ 192 Physiological Chemistry.. .......................... 168 Chemistry of Vegetable Physiology and Agri-culture ............................................. 158 Analytical Chemistry.. ............................ 414 -Total in Parts I, and IJ. ..................... 612 1526 1260 2575 Eight hundred and fifty volumes had been borrowed from the Library. The additions comprised 78 books, 282 volumes of periodicals, and 36 pamphlets. Sir W. CROOKES, proposed a vote of thanks to the President, F.R.S., coupled with the request that he would allow hi8 address to be printed in the Transactions.Dr. W. J. RUSSELL,F.R.S.,seconded the motion, which was carried by acclamation. The PRESIDENThaving returned thanks, Dr. THORPE,F.R.S., the treasurer, gave an account of the balance sheet, which he laid before the Society, duly audited. The receipts had been :-By admission fees and subscriptions, .&3827;by sale of Journal and advertisements, $686 3s. 6d. ;and by dividends on invested capital, $414 6s. Od. The expenses had been : -On account of the Journal, $22963 11s. Id.; on account of the Proceedings, $278 7s. 10d.; on account of the General Index, 2182 18s. Id.; on account of the Library, $307 4s. 9d.; House expenses, $203 6s. 7d. ;the total expenditure being 34807 6s. 8d. Grants amounting to $150 had been made to Fellows from the Re- search Fund during the year.Dr, GLADSTONE,F.R.S., proposed that the thanks of the Fellows be tendered to the Treasurer for his services during the past year ; this motion was seconded by Dr. STEVENSON, and carried. The TREASURER, in responding, proposed a vote of thanks to the auditors. Dr. ATKINSONseconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted, and acknowledged by Mr. R. J. FRISWELL. Mr. D. HOWARDproposed a vote of thanks to the Officers and Council. Mr. CASSALseconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted, Prof. THOMSON,F.R.S., responded on behalf of the Council. Dr. B. DYER proposed a vote of thanks to the Editor, Sub-Editor, Abstractors, and Indexers, which was seconded by Mr.R. J. FRIRWELL, and carried. Mr. GROVES,F.R.S., responded. The Scrutators having presented their report to the President, he declared that the following had been duly elected :-President : James Dewar, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents who havejlled the ofice of President : Sir F. A. Abel, Bart., K.C.B.,D.C.L.,F.R.S.; H. E.Armstrong, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.; A. Crum Brown, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S. ; Sir W. Crookes, F.R.S. ; Sir E. Frankland, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S.; Sir J. H. Gilbert,Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. ; J. H. Gladstone, Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S. ; A. Vernon Harcourt, M.A., D.C.L., F.R.S. ; H. Muller, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.; W. Odling, M.B., F.R.S.; W. H. Perkin, LL.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. ; Lord Playfair, G.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S.; Sir H.E. Roscoe, LL.D., F.R.S.; W. J. Russell, PbD., F.R.S. ; A. W. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S. Vice-presidents: F. R. Japp, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. ; G. D. Liveing, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. ; William Ramsay, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.; J. Emerson Reynolds, M.D., D.Sc., F.N.S. ; John M. Thomson, F.R.S. ; William A. Tilden, D.Sc. F.R.S. ; Xecretaries : Wyndham R. Dunstan, M.A., F.R.S. ; W. P. Wynne, D.Sc., F.R.S. Foreign Xecretary : Raphael Meldola, F.R.S. Treasurer : T. E. Thorpe, LL.D., F.R.S. Other Xembers of Council: P. Phillips Bedson, D.Sc. ; E.J. Fevnc ; 11. J. H. Fenton, M.A. ; W. Gowland ; Otto Hehner ; c1. T. Heycock, M.A., F.R.S. ; D. Howard ; Herbert McLeod, F.R.S. ; Rudolph Messel, Ph.D."; H. Forster Morley, M.A., D.8c. ; Alexander Scott, M.A.D.Sc. * Arthur smith el!^, H.Sc. At the next meeting, on Thursday, April 21, there mill be a ballot for the election of Fellows, and the following papers mill be com-municated. The authors of those marked * have expressed their intention of being present. ““The carbohydrates of barley straw.” By C. F. Cross, E. J. Bevan, and Claud Smith. *“ Isomeric bornylamines.” By M. 0. Forster, Ph.D. *“ Some derivatives of benzophenone.” Ey F. E. Matthews, Ph.D. I‘ Researches on camphoric acid.” By S. B. Schrgver, Ph.D. ‘‘The yellow colouring matters of some plants containing tannin. Part V.” By A. G. Perkin and P. J. Wood. “The yellow colouring matters of the leaves of AvctostaphyZos uvc~ ursi.’) By A. G. Perkin. LIST OF FELLOWS. A new list of Officers and Fellows of the Chemical Society being in course of preparation, it is requested that Fellows will send any altera- tion of address, without delay, to the Assistant Secretary, Burlington Hoiise, London, W. RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BUNGAY.
ISSN:0369-8718
DOI:10.1039/PL8981400089
出版商:RSC
年代:1898
数据来源: RSC
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