NOVEMBER, 1913. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the eety. was held on 
Wednesday, the 5th November, 1913, a t 9-1 
D. Hooprr, Esq., F.C.8., F.L.S.; F.A.S.B. "Vie Prosigient. 
in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Maulavi Abdul Wali, Dr. N. Annandale, Mr. J. Coggin 
Brown, Dr. E. H. Hankin, the Rev. H. Hosten, S.J., Mr. J. 
Insch, Mr. W. Kirkpatrick, Capt. C. L. Peart, LA., Dr G. E. 
Pilgrim, ee -Col. L. Rogers, I.M.S., Mr. G. Stadler and the Rey. 
. W. Young. 
Visitor :—Mr. E. M. Hayward. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Kighty-four presentations were announced. 
The Chairman, in unveiling a brass memorial tablet in 
commemoration of the late David Waldie, made the following 
remarks :— 
Da vid Waldie was born at Linlithgow, Scotland, on Febru- 
ary 27th, 1813. He studied medicine in Edinbur urgh and prac- 
tised for some time as an apothecary in his native town. ‘Sub. 
sequently he went to Liverpool as an assistant in the Liverpool 
eed a it and ultimately succeeded Dr. Brett, the com- 
pany’s chem While in Liverpool he played an important 
part in the oe of the annenthilie property of chloroform. 
Chloroform was discovered by Soubeiran, a French chemist, in 
1831, and by Liebig in 1832. It received its present name 
from Dumas in 1834. In 1837 or 1838 it was introduced into 
England as chloric ether and was used as a spirituous solution. 
Waldie altered the process and prepared a liquor of uniform 
strength without the disagreeable flavour. In 1847 Dr. (after- 
wards Sir J. Y.) Simpson “made enquiries for a new anaesthetic 
in place of ether, and Waldie recommended chloroform. Experi- 
ments were made and the substance proved so satisfactory that 
the results were communicated by Dr. Simpson to the por 
Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh on the 10th —— of t : 
year. Since then it has become ie - the : _ wages 
mankind in surgical o ons. aldie 
in 1853 ae BR WN Be works, the first of their kind, at 
Cossipore, which were afterwards transferred to Konn <a : 
also undertook several investigations of a aga’) na pi 
Waldie joined the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1865. He serv 
