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was recently puWisbed. The president for the current year is Dr. Hugo 

 Miiller, F. II. S., and the first vice-president is William Crookes, F. R. S 

 The twelve principal chemical societies of the world have nearly nine 

 thousand members, distributed as shown in the following table (from 

 H. C. Bolton's Address to IST. Y. Academy of Sciences, March 15, 188G) : 



DentscUe cliemische GeseiLschaft zii Berlin L',9.')0 



SocLety of Chemical ludiistry (Eugland) 2, 40J 



Chemical Society of Loadoa 1,.'')00 



Soci6te chimiquo de Paris •''>GU 



Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland 430 



American Chemical Society . ^iAt 



Society of Public Analysts (Eui^land) 1«0 



Chemical Society of St. Petersburjj; IGO 



Associazione chimico-farmaceatica florcnt iiia *2W 



Chemical Society of Tokio, Japan 81 



Chemical Society of Washington, D. C AS 



Association of Official Agricultural Chcuiists (IJui ted States of America) 17 



Total H,781 



The centenary of the death of Sclieele was commemorated on May 21, 

 1886, at the little town of Koping, Sweden, wiiere he passed the last 

 ten years of his life. 



The prodigious activity in all departments of science obtaining in 

 Germany is well illustrated by statistics of the meeting of "deutscher 

 Naturforscher und Aerzte" held at Berlin in September, 1880. At this 

 meeting no less than 5,651 persons took part, including 2,221 members, 

 1,931 associates, 1,496 women. Nearly every quarter of the globe was 

 represented. North America by 42 persons, Japan by 10, India by 2, 

 Egypt by 4, Australia by 4, and the Cape of Good Hope by 2. In the 30 

 sections into which the association is divided 522 lectures and 155 

 experimental demonstrations were held in 131 sessions. And those in 

 attendance were invited to join 48 excursions. 



The first meeting of this association was held in 1831, in Leipzig, and 

 was attended by 13 persons ; surely small beginnings are not to be 

 despised. 



NECROLOGY OF CHEMISTS, 1886. 



Robert Alexander, a young English chemist of much promise, was 

 killed instantly during the disastrous earthquake in Charleston, South 

 Carolina, August 31, 1880. He was born March 18, 1803, near Birken- 

 head, England. His chemical education was chiefly in the analytical 

 laboratory of Mr. G. W. Wigner, Loudon. In January, 1880, he came 

 to America, and in March went to Charleston, where he was engaged 

 in developing a sanitary system when he met his death. 



James Apjohn died June 2, 1880, at the advanced age of ninety one. 

 He held the chair of chemistry in the Royal College of Surgeons, Dub- 



* Estimated. Many chemists are members of several societies ; against this dupli- 

 cation may be set those chemists not connected with societies. 



