IXXXU Proceedings of the 
JUNE, 1922. 
The Monthly General Meeting of the ne of the month 
was held on Wednesday, the Ith, at 6-15 
Tue Hon’ste Justick Str AsurosH MvuKrERJFE, Kr., 
(.8.1., D.L., D.Sc., F.R.S-E., F.A.S.B., President, in the chair. 
Members : PRESENT, 
Abdul Wali Khan Sahib. asa ia ig ae 
; De N. ;Or-8. V 
machari, Dr. ON: Majunsdar, = K N. 
Ceakinten, Mr. H.C. Manen 
handa, Babu Remaprasad. Mehta, Mr. oS 
Chapman, Mr. J. A. Ray, Babu font Chandra 
Vn el Babu nd leit Chandra. Sarbadhikari, Dr. Dev aprasad. 
Hann H. Bru 
ts minutes of the last meeeting were read and confirmed. 
Thirteen presentations were announced. 
The General Secretary reported with deep regret the 
High g in I sir on 9th April of Sir Patrick Manson, G.CM.G., 
. LL.D., F.R.C.P., an Honorary Fellow of the Society. 
The eoccs gentleman was balloted for and elected as 
an ordinary member : 
Dr. Sivapada Bhattacharyya, M D., School of Tropical 
Medicine, Caleutta: proposed by Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, 
seconded by Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar. 
The following iin tonnane were proposed on behalf of ‘the 
Council as Honorary Fello 
Wiliam Henry Perkin. 
Professor W. H. Perkin, Ph,D., Sc.D., LL.D., Waynflete 
Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford, is one of 
most eminent of living organic chemists. His researches have 
been mainly on (a) the synthesis of polymethylene derivatives, 
(d) the constitution of camphor, (c) the synthesis of the terpenes, 
(d) the constitution of cryptopine and protopine, (e) the con- 
stitution of harmine and harmaline, and the results of these 
researches have been published in a large series of papers, chiefly 
in the Transactions of the Chemical Society. In recognition 
of the value of his contributions to Chemical Science, the Royal 
Society awarded him the Davy Medal and the Chemical Society 
of London the Longstaffe Medal. Prof. Perkin is a Fellow of 
ing member of the Academies of Science of Gdttingen and 
Munich, a Foreign Associate of the French Academy of Science, 
and past President of the Chemical Society of London and of 
Section B. of the British Association. 
