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largo proportion of free muriatic acid in the disinfectant 
■would make it rather difficult of application for closet 
purposes. 
Mr. Groves expressed the same opinion. 
Mr. Stanford, in reply, said: My experience is con¬ 
fined principally to the use of the soluble chloride of 
calcium. It may surprise many when I tell them that 
such an extremely deliquescent substance as chloride of 
calcium will stand for months when it is put in a large 
lump. The acid is added to this disinfectant because it 
is an advantage to havo an acidified solution, as most of 
the odours contain ammonia or some volatile alkaline 
body. It is not in the least necessary, for chloride of cal¬ 
cium alone is a far better disinfectant than chloride of 
aluminium alone, and Is by far the most powerful and 
the cheapest. 
The President : You use the fused chloride of cal¬ 
cium of course P 
Mr. Stanford : Yes. 
Election of Officers, 
On the motion of Mr. Giles, seconded by Mr. Allchin, 
the following officers were elected by ballot for the en¬ 
suing year— 
President. 
H. B. Brady, F.L.S., F.C.S., Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Vice-Presidents who have filed the office of President. 
H. Deane, F.L.S., Clapham Common, S. 
Professor Bentley, F.L.S., M.R.C.S., 17, Bloomsbury 
Square, W.C. 
D. Hanbury, F.R.S., F.L.S., Clapham Common, Lon¬ 
don, S.W. 
W. W. Stoddart, F.C.S., F.G.S., Bristol. 
Vice-Presidents. 
T. H. Hills, F.C.S., London. 
J. Williams, F.C.S., London. 
R. Reynolds, F.C.S., Leeds. 
F. M. Rimmington, Bradford. 
Treasurer. 
G. F. Schacht, Clifton, Bristol. 
General Secretaries. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.C.S., 17, Bloomsbury 
Square, W.C. 
F. Baden Benger, 1 , Market Place, Manchester. 
Assistant Secretary. 
John Moss, F.C.S. 
Local Secretary. 
R. Parkinson, Ph.D., Bradford. 
Editor of the Year Pooh. 
C. H. Wood, F.C.S. 
Editor of the Transactions. 
Professor Attfield. 
Other Members of the Executive Committee, 1872-3. 
M. Carteighe, F.C.S., London. 
T. B. Groves, F.C.S., Weymouth. 
F. Sutton, F.C.S., Norwich. 
C. Ekin, F.C.S., Bath. 
T. Greenish, F.C.S., London. 
W. D. Savage, Brighton. 
C. Umney, F.C.S., London. 
F. C. Clayton, Birmingham. 
M. Rogerson, Bradford. 
Auditors. 
Mr. Collins proposed, and Mr. Husband, of Exeter, 
seconded a motion appointing Mr. Brew, of Brighton 
and Mr. Hick, of Bradford, as auditors. 
Carried unanimously. 
Mr. Morson moved—“That the cordial thanks of 
this assembly and the non-resident members be given to 
Mr. Savage, Mr. T. Glaisyer, and the other members of 
I the Local Committee for their most successful efforts in 
organizing the present meeting.” He said that the non¬ 
resident members of the Association would be unanimous- 
in returning their thanks to the members of the com¬ 
mittee who had provided for them so handsomely and 
treated them so well. 
Mr. Bamford : The uniform kindness that I have met 
with at Brighton has led me to accept the duty of se¬ 
conding this vote, which I do with great pleasure. I 
am sure that you all feel it to be well merited, and I can 
say no words which would present that view more clearly 
' to you. 
Professor Attfield : I should like just to support the- 
resolution. In previous years I have had to state to the 
Conference how greatly I have been helped in my office 
of secretary by the local committee, more especially by 
the permanent officers of the local committee, in the 
town where we have met. I can say nothing of the kind 
this year, simply because the local committee have had 
the whole of the arrangements, and I have had nothing- 
whatever to do with them. To the local committee is 
due the whole credit. 
The motion was carried unanimously. 
Mr. Savage, in reply, said that these members of the 
local committee, whose names had not been mentioned 
in the resolution had taken an active part in the arrange¬ 
ments. 
Mr. Ince : Gentlemen, I have very great pleasure in 
moving a vote of thanks to the Town Council of Brighton 
and the Pavilion Committee for the use of this room. 
I am sure I need say nothing further about this, because- 
it is a resolution which commends itself to you all. I do- 
not recollect that we have ever been under equal circum¬ 
stances as far as accommodation is concerned, though, I 
believe, at Bath we were under similar circumstances as 
to architectural beauty. 
The resolution was seconded by Mr. Schacht, and 
carried unanimously. 
Mr. Savage said that as there was no member of the 
Town Council present, he might state that the Pavilion 
Committee had most readily, upon his application, placed 
one of the best rooms of the building at the disposal of 
the Conference, both for the meetings and the supper. 
Mr. Betty moved that the thanks of the Association 
be presented to Mr. H. B. Brady for acting as President 
at the present gathering. He said that he felt unable 
to do justice to the urbanity of manner and the talent 
which had been displayed by the President in the dis¬ 
charge of his onerous duties. 
Mr. Greenish seconded the motion. 
Mr. Hanbury, in supporting it, said that he was sure 
that the chair could not have been filled in a more able 
manner than on the present occasion. 
Carried by acclamation. 
The President : Gentlemen, for some weeks past this 
meeting has been upon my mind like a night-mare. If 
ever there was a decision of this Association which I felt 
disposed to question, it was that of the meeting at Edin¬ 
burgh,. when the election of officers was under con¬ 
sideration. I felt my inability to do what the president 
of this large Conference ought to do, and during the 
course of its proceedings the same thing has been 
constantly in my mind. So far from feeling that the 
meed of praise which my friend Mr. Betty has awarded 
me is my due, I tell you honestly that I was pre¬ 
pared to apologize for the apparently arbitrary way in 
which I have been compelled on one or two occasions, 
especially to-day, to conduct the business of the meeting. 
In many ways it is a painful thing to find good papers 
before you, and gentlemen present capable of thoroughly 
discussing them, and then to have to give a mere resume 
of [the paper, and forego the discussion altogether in con¬ 
sequence of the want of time. If I have seemed in any 
, way discourteous in this respect, I assure you that it has 
been only with a view to geting through the business in 
something like reasonable time. For those personal 
