ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES 

 Proceedings and items of interest to biochemists 



PAUL E. HOWE 



PrEPAJRED CHIEFLY FROM REPORTS BY SECRETARIES 



Contents 



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I. Soc. Public Analysts and other Anal. Chemists, E. Richards Bolton, Sec'y loi 



IL Biochemical Society, England, R. H. A. Flimmer, Sec'y 109 



III. Papers of biochemical interest (titles) in the proc. of several soc iio 



IV. References to society proceedings 112 



V. Officers-elect of various societies 113 



L SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS AND OTHER ANALYTICAL 



CHEMISTS 



E. Richards Bolton, Secretary 



A. The Annual General Meeting of the Society of Public Ana- 

 lysts and other Analytical Chemists was held at the Chem. Soc. 

 Rooms, Burlington House, on Wed. evening, 2nd Feb. 191 6, when 

 the Pres't, Mr. A. Chaston Chapman, delivered his Annual Address. 



President's Address. Mr. Chapman said : Once again it is my 

 lot to review the activities of our Society during a period of such 

 intense and universal stress and strain as finds no parallel in the 

 world's history. Since my last Annual Address was delivered, the 

 deadly struggle has continued without intermission, and if that 

 struggle has brought untold suffering and misery to millions of our 

 fellow-beings, there is, happily, some good to be placed to the other 

 side of the terrible account. 



As a nation we have in the past shown a neglect of Science which 

 has very nearly been our undoing, and although from time to time 

 grave warnings have been uttered and powerful appeals have been 

 made, these have for the most part fallen upon deaf ears. Now, as 

 a result of the inflexible logic of events, the nation is beginning to 

 realise the error of its ways, and never again can Chemistry and the 



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