April 5, 1917

CORRESPONDence.

force, and subsequently tested for permeability at a lower
force, shows diminished permeability at the lower force,
gives, in combination with these results, an interpretation BLINDED SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOSTEL.
of the increase of permeability manifested by iron when
tested within a magnetic shield.

To the Editor of the Chemical News.

The Solar and Lunar Diurnal Variations of Terrestrial SIR,-I hope you will be able to find room in your columns Magnetism." By S. CHAPMAN, D.Sc.

CHEMICAL SOCIETY.

Ordinary Meeting, March 1, 1917.

Dr. ALEXANDER SCOTT, M.A., F.R.S., President,
in the Chair.

THE PRESIDENT referred to the loss sustained by the Society,
through death, of the following Fellows:- John Griffiths
and Cyril Douglas McCourt (killed in action); John Kent
Crow, Reginald Le Neve Foster, Charles Henry Wood.
Messrs. S. C. Atkinson, C. E. Corfield, J. Dines, J. C.
Johnson, H. King, J. Krizewsky. D. J. Matthews, and
A. W. Richardson were formally admitted Fellows of the
Chemical Society.

The names of Fellows recommended by the Council for
election as Officers and as Ordinary Members of Council
for 1917 to 1918 were read from the Chair.
Certificates were read for the first time in favour of
Messrs. John Anderson, M.A., B.Sc., 5, Linthrathen
Gardens, Dundee; Leon Daniel Goldsmith, B.Sc.,
A.R.C.S., 31, Colvestone Crescent, West Hackney, N.E.;
Harold Pearson Hird, 3, Rock Terrace, Hipperholme,
Halifax; George Samuel Mason, B.Sc., 28, Osborne
Road, Birkby, Huddersfield; John Calvert Oxley, Oakwell
House, Heckmondwike; Sydney Albert Pearman, B.Sc.,
12, Stanley Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.; Alfred George
Pollard, B.Sc., A.R C.S., 27, Edburton Avenue, Brighton;
George Reeves, B.Sc., A.R.C.S., care of British Dyes,
Ltd., Dalton Works, Huddersfield; George Robertson,
M.A., B.Sc., Mary Cottage, St. Andrews; Ernest Harry
Rodd, D.Sc., A.C.G.I., 68, Clarence Road, Teddington;
Oge Roewade, 214, Calhoun Street, Battle Creek, Mich.,
U.S.A.; William Smith, B.Sc., Mountsorrell, Lough
borough ; Robert Stevenson, A.P.O., S.14, B.E.F.,
France; Arthur Worthington, Lynwood, Great Lever,

Bolton.

The following papers were read :

"Notes on the Effect of Heat and Oxidation on Linseed Oil." By J. A. N. FRIEND.

"Acyl Derivatives of Paradiazoiminobenzene." G. T. MORGAN and A. W. H. UPTON.

Ordinary Meeting, March 15, 1917.

Dr. ALEXANDER SCOTT, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair.

By

The PRESIDENT referred to the death, on March to, of Mr. Philip John Worsley, who was elected a Fellow on February 14, 1858.

for the enclosed short appeal to members of the chemical
trade. If you will permit the letter to appear you will, I
know, be doing a great deal to help the men who have
given their sight for the Empire.-Yours faithfully,
ARTHUR PEARSON.

Will you permit me to ask your readers if they will be
so generous as to give support by gifts in cash or kind to
Royal Albert Hall during the second week in May.
ths Blinded Soldiers' Bazaar, which is to be held at the

their sympathy for the men who have made so great a
I feel sure that no flowery phrases are needed to evoke
sacrifice for the freedom and future prosperity of this

country.

:

So may I please just leave the matter like this:-
If you who read this letter think that the fight which
Britain is making is a just fight, if you honour and respect
have sympathy for those who in thus representing you
the men who have represented you in that fight, if you
have suffered so terrible a deprivation as the loss of their
be it in cash or kind, to the Secretary, Blinded Soldiers'
sight, you will send a contribution, be it large or small,
Bazaar Committee, 6, Bayswater Hill, London, W.-I
am, &c.,

ARTHUR PEARSON, Chairman,

Blinded Soldiers' and Sailors' Care Committee.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Mersey Chemical Works, situated at Bromborough Port, New Ferry, Birkenhead, were sold by auction by Messrs. Wheatley Kirk, Price, and Co., of Manchester, on March 28. The property, which included freehold works premises, plant and machinery, electric light and power installation, was offered in one lot, and the bidding at the well-attended sale was brisk. purchaser was Colonel Brotherton, of Messrs. Brotherton and Co., Leeds, Glasgow, and elsewhere, tar distillers, and the purchase price was £135,000.

The

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Messrs. S. A. Brazier and H. C. Cocks were formally Chemical Assistant, Junior (well qualified),

admitted Fellows of the Chemical Society.

Certificates were read for the first time in favour of Messrs. Charles Claude Carpenter, South Metropolitan Gas Co., 709, Old Kent Road, S.E. 15; Herbert Edwin Course, Water Works, Accra, Gold Coast; Major Percy Cowell, Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall, S. W. 1; Arthur Charles Hoare, 63, Englewood Road, Clapham Common, S. W. 4.

A certificate has been authorised by the Council under By-law I., Par. 3, in favour of Vetscheslav Engenievitsch Tischtschenko, Petrograd, Russia.

Mr. A. CHASTON CHAPMAN delivered a lecture entitled, "Some Main Lines of Advance in the Domain of Modern

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