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Cider Vinegar, by R. W. Balcom and E. G. Grab ; Tartrazin, by Miss A. M, 

 Doyle ; C. II. Smitli's Method for the Determination of Arsenic, by W. D. 

 Collins; and The Manufacture of Benzaldehyde and Benzoic Acid as a By- 

 Product using Ultraviolet Rays as a Catalyst, by H. D. Gibbs and G. A. Geiger. 



Resolutions were adopted on the death during the year of the following 

 members : Prof. Robert James Davidson, of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute ; 

 Dr. George Edward Patrick, chief of the Dairy Laboratory of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry ; and Thomas Cuthbert Trescot, also of the Bureau of Chemistry. 



The following officers were elected for the coming year: J. K. Haywood, 

 Washington, D. C, president ; P. F. Trowbridge, Columbia, Mo., vice-president ; 

 Carl L. Alsberg, Washington, D. C, secretary and treasurer; and B. B. Ross, 

 Auburn, Ala., and H. C. Lythgoe, Boston, j\Iass., members of the executive 

 committee. It was decided to hold the nest meeting at Washington, D. C, the 

 date to be decided by the executive committee. 



Necrolo^. — Dr, N. H. J. Miller, connected with the Rothamsted Station since 

 1887, died January 12. His chief work during his long service was the measure- 

 ment of the amount of combined nitrogen brought down in the rain and the 

 amount of nitric nitrogen washed out from the snow. For over 80 years he 

 had analyzed a sample of every collection of rain from a large rain gauge at 

 the station, obtaining a continuous set of observations of extreme scientific 

 value. 



Dr. Miller was also much interested in the literature of agricultural chem- 

 istry. For many years he did nearly all the abstracting in chemistry for the 

 British Chemical Society, and in recent years had prepared the society's annual 

 review of progress in that subject. 



Marquis de Vogue, president of the Agricultural Society of France, died in 

 November, 1916, at the age of 87 years. Although he was also a diplomatist, a 

 historian, a musician, an architect, and a painter, he was much interested in 

 agricultural chemistry, and installed a laboratory at his chateau at Peseau, 

 where he carried on experiments in the use of fertilizers for potatoes, the use 

 of basic slag, nitrification and the loss of nitrates from lands left xincultivated 

 after harvest, and the effect of the ammoniacal liquor from gas works on the 

 straw of cereals. As president of the society he exerted a considerable influ- 

 ence to improve agricultural conditions in France, especially along economic 

 lines. 



Miscellaneous. — Arthur H. Rosenfeld, director of the experiment station at 

 Tucuman, Argentina, since 1914, has resigned and has been succeeded by 

 Dr. W. E. Cross, for several months acting director. Dr. Cross will also con- 

 tinue as head of the department of chemistry, while E. W. Rust has been given 

 charge of the work in entomology. P. V. Janutolo has been appointed assist- 

 ant in chemistry. 



The Cheshire Educational Committee has voted to close the County Council's 

 Agricultural and Horticultural College at Holmes Chapel. England, but a reso- 

 lution has also been passed asking the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 to take over the institution during the war, vith a view to training disabled 

 sailors and soldiers in farm and garden work. 



A new feed control station was opened at Wageningen, Holland, November 

 28, 1916, with Dr. B. R. de Bruyn as director. 



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