170 REPORT— 1903. 



2. That the secretaries of the Sectional Committee be requested to 

 forward copies of the list to the secretaries of the Chemical (Societies of 

 London and Berlin, with the suggestion that the councils of these bodies 

 might be disposed to bring such lleports to the notice of Fellows by 

 inserting the references in one of the issues of their publications. 



APPENDIX. 



List of Special Reports pi-esented to Section B during 1898-1902, 

 indicating the type of Special Report to which attention might be drawn 

 in the manner indicated by the Committee : — 



1900. 'The Constitution of Camphor.' By A. Lapworth. 



1901. ' Methods of Determining the Hydrolytic Dissociation of Salts.' 



By R. C. Farmek. 

 ' On the Equilibrium Law as applied to Salt Separation and 

 to the Formation of Oceanic Salt Deposits.' By E. F. 

 Armstrong. 



1902. ' Hydro-ai'omatic Compounds with Single Nucleus.' By A. W. 



Crossley. 

 ' Our Pi'esent Knowledge of Aromatic Diazo- Compounds.' 

 By G. T. Morgan. 



Dtitlj-free Alcohol for Scientific Research. — Report of the Committee, 

 consisiinij of Sir H. E. RoscoE (Chairman), Professor H. B. 

 BixoN {Secretarii), Sir Michael Foster, Sir A. W. Ri cker, Dr. 

 T. E. Thorpe, Professor W. H. Perkin, ami Professor W. D. 

 Halliburton. 



The Committee appointed at the Glasgow meeting in 1901 were unable 

 to report in 1902, as they were at the time of the Belfast meeting in the 

 midst of their negotiations with tlie Board of Inland Revenue. 



After a preliminary meeting and correspondence in the winter of 

 1901-2 the Committee received iiiformati'm that the Government were 

 willing to adopt a clause in the Budget Bill of 1902 which would permit 

 the use of duty-free alcohol under conditions to be laid down by the 

 Board of Inland Revenue. AVhen the Budget Bill was passed a deputa- 

 tion from the Committee waited on the Chairman of the Board, and 

 after full discussion the Committee agreed to confine their application at 

 the present time to the use of duty-free alcohol (ethyl and methyl) and 

 of alcoholic derivatives for the purposes of research work and higher 

 teaching in the laboratories of universities, colleges, and public institu- 

 tions. 



At the request of the Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue the 

 Committee drew up the following statement : — 



*7'o the Chairman of the Board of Inland Revemie, 



' August G, ] 002. 

 ' Sir, — At the meeting of the British Association held at Glasgow last 

 year a Committee was appointed to approach the Inland Revenue Cpw 



