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tulate their fellow-members on the positive attainment of the prin- 

 cipal objects for which they are associated. The Society continues 

 to be augmented in numbers and influence by the election of new 

 Members, and has been well supported by contributions of original 

 papers read at its meetings. The papers presented appear to in- 

 crease both in number and value ; and any apprehension of a want 

 of papers, which formerly existed, has been in a great measure dis- 

 pelled by the experience of the last Session. It is now sufficiently 

 evident that ample materials exist in England for a Chemical So- 

 ciety, and you have furnished unquestionable proofs of the utility of 

 such a Society in its power to advance the cultivation of chemical 

 research in the country. 



Thirty-one Members have been elected into the Society since the 

 last Anniversary. Our present numbers are — 77 Members resident 

 in London, 57 Members resident in the country, or "non-resident" 

 Members, 10 Associates, and 3 Foreign Members, making a total of 

 147 Members, with an annual income of £211. 



The Society has thus early in its career to deplore the loss by 

 death of two Members. 



HEisrRYHENNJ3LL,Esq., F.R.S., who took an active part in the esta- 

 blishment of the Society, and was a member of the Council first 

 elected. Mr. Hennell will ever hold an honourable place in the 

 history of chemistry, as the discoverer of sulphovinic acid*, one of the 

 earliest achievements in organic chemistry, and which has since 

 formed the starting-point for numerous important inquiries. Mr. 

 Hennell was destroyed by a lamentable accident, which no intelli- 

 gence could have foreseen, in the discharge of his professional duties 

 as Chemical Operator to the Apothecaries' Hall, in the 45 th year of 

 his age. The shock of this deplorable event still unfits us from 

 calmly estimating the scientific merits and highly amiable character 

 of our lost friend. And 



Mr. Henky Inglis, of Kincaid Print Works, near Glasgow, who, 

 besides cultivating successfully the chemistry of calico-printing, was 

 distinguished for his accurate knowledge of the general science, in 

 the progress of which he took much interest. Mr. Inglis, whose 

 constitution was always delicate, did not outlive his 43rd year. 



At the conclusion of last Session the Council made a new arrange- 

 ment with the Society of Arts for the use of two rooms for their 

 meetings and a place of deposit for the property of the Society. 

 These arrangements, they have reason to believe, have given general 

 satisfaction to the Members. 



The Society published the Third Part of its Proceedings and 

 Memoirs in August last, and has another Part at present passing 

 through the press, the great extent of which has occasioned some 

 delay in its publication. There have been received since last Re- 

 port, 41 communications from 21 contributors, of which 20 are 

 printed entire in the 3rd and 4th Parts, and full abstracts given in 



* Mr. Hennell's paper on the Mutual Action of Sulphuric Acid and 

 Alcohol, reprinted from Phil. Trans., will be found in Phil. Mag., S. 1. 

 vol. lxviii. p. 354. — Edit. 



