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Vol. III. FEBRUARY, 1868. No. 2. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
Thursday, February 6th. — Mr. Thomas Pease, F.G.S., one of 
the Vice Presidents, in the chair. 
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. A. Leipner, read the minutes of the last 
meeting, which were confirmed. He then said he regretted to announce 
that the Society had lost one of its most valuable members, Mr. Alfred 
Noble, F.C.S., who had recently died in London, at the early age of 
thirty-four yeais. Most of them, he continued, knew the deceased gentle- 
man as a very indefatigable member of the Society. For two years he 
had been Secretary of the Chemical Section, and had several times 
contributed valuable Papers both at the General and Sectional Meetings. 
It was also announced that at the last meeting of the Council the Rev. D. 
M. Claxton, M.A., had been elected an ordinary member of the Society, 
and that the Council recommended to the Society an alteration of Rules 2 
and 9, whereby ladies might be admitted into the Society, under the style 
of Lady Associates. 
The Chairman, in putting the motion for the proposed alteration in 
the rules to the meeting, observed that the subject of admitting lady 
associates had been a good deal discussed by the Council, and they were 
unanimously of opinion that such a class of members should be formed. 
It was true that ladies were now admitted to the meetings of the Society, 
but many ladies felt that they would rather join the Society, and thereby 
