XIV. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The President announced the deaths of Dr. W. W. J. 

 O'Reilly and Mr. F. W. Webb. 



Letters were read from Mrs. O'Reilly, Mrs. Webb, and 

 Mrs. Willis expressing thanks for the Society's sympathy 

 in their recent bereavements. 



A letter was read from the Official Secretary to His 

 Excellency the Governor stating that His Majesty the 

 King had commanded that an expression of His Majesty's 

 appreciation of the resolution passed by this Society at 

 the time of the signing of the Armistice be conveyed to 

 the Society. 



The President announced that the Oouncil had resolved 

 that in the nomination form for submission to the Society 

 for the election of Oouncil for the ensuing year, there shall 

 be at least the names of three new members. 



Seventy-four parts, 4 volumes and 1 report were laid 

 upon the table. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ: 



1. "Volume Changes in the Process of Solution," by G. J. 



Burrows, B.Sc, (communicated by Prof. O. E. Fawsitt). 

 Remarks were made by Mr. T. I. Wallas, and Drs. G. 

 Harker and H. S. H. Wardlaw. 



2. "Note on Organo-Metallic Derivatives of Chromium, 



Tungsten and Iron," by G. M. Bennett, m.a., M.Sc.and 

 E. E. Turner, b.a., m.Sc, (communicated by Prof. J. 

 Read.) 

 The President presented Professor T. W. Edgeworth 

 David with the Clarke Memorial Medal which had been 

 awarded to him in 1917 during his absence on active service 

 at the front. In returning thanks for the honour con- 

 ferred upon him, Professor David referred to the great 

 assistance he had received from the geological writings of 

 the Rev. W. B. Clarke, and also from those of Robert 

 Etheridge, Junr., and Charles S. Wilkinson. 



