ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES 



Proceedings and items of interest to biochemists 



PAUL E. HOWE 



PrEPARED CHIEFLY FROM REPORTS BY SECRETARIES 



Contents 



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 I. Soc. Public Analysts and other Anal. Chemists, P. A. E. Richards and 



E. R. Bolton, Secretaries 203 



IL Biochemical Society, England, R. H. A. Plimmer, Secretary 206 



IIL Papers (titles) and transactions of biochemical interest in the proceed- 

 ings of several societies 207 



IV. Officers- and members-elect of various societies 213 



L SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS 

 and Other Analytical Chemists 



P, A. Ellis Richards and E. Richards Bolton, Secretaries 



I. Ordlnary Meeting, ist March, 1916.^ Held at the Chem. Soc. 

 Rooms, Burlington House, London. Mr. George Embrey, Presi- 

 dent, in the Chair. 



Messrs. Thomas John Hitchcock, and Nelson Trafalgar Foley 

 were elected members of the society. A certificate was read for 

 the first time in favour of Mr. Maurice S. Salamon. A certificate 

 was read for the second time in favour of Mr. Frank Theodore Alpe. 



The papers abstracted below were read and discussed : 



Manufacture of English chemical filter paper. E. J. Bevan, 

 F.I.C. and W. Bacon, B.Sc, F.I.C. The introduction dealt with the 

 manufacture of filter paper at the commencement of the war, with 

 an approximation of the total consumption yearly. The manufac- 

 ture of this paper, as carried out at the present time, is practically 

 in the hands of four firms and, from examinations that we have 



iThe last preceding meeting was held 2d Feb., 1916. See Biochemical 

 Bulletin, 1916, v, p. 107. 



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