lviii. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Mr. B. J. Smart thought that scientists were not quite 

 seized with the problems confronting manufacturers and 

 suggested the classification or grouping of the industries. 



Mr. Claude Reading also spoke. 



Meeting held Thursday, October 19th, 1916. 



Mr. Loxley Meggitt in the Chair. 



Prof. O. U. Vonwiller gave a lecturette upon Physics 

 in the Industries, in which he gave instances of many use- 

 ful industrial applications of ideas which had been derived 

 from purely theoretical work. He showed that it would 

 pay industrial concerns to employ scientists to study the 

 theory of their industrial processes. He suggested that 

 the Section should pay periodic visits to the scientific 

 laboratories of the University. 



Mr. James Henderson, the Chairman, and the Hon. 

 Secretary also spoke. 



Prof. J. Read gave a lecturette upon the Hydrogenation 

 of Liquid Fats. He showed the differences between the 

 liquid and solid fats and described the earlier experiments 

 that led to the industrial application of the action of hydro- 

 gen upon liquid fats in the presence of a catalyst such as 

 reduced nickel oxide. 



Dr. R. K. Murphy described the steps taken by an 

 American firm which dealt in Cotton Seed Oil, to convert 

 the oil into a solid fat. He also spoke about the manu- 

 facture of synthetic lard by mixing the oil with 5% of the 

 hardened product. The treatment and utilisation of 

 chemical engineers by industrial firms was incidentally 

 dealt with. 



Messrs. A. D. Olle, P. A. Coombs, S. B. Sibley, J. 

 Stedman, and the Chairman also spoke. 



