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Bone again priid trib1it.c to thc late Prof. Dison's pioneering work in t,his field, nnd read t,hc follo\viiig cstrect from a lcttcr rcceived from him in 1927 : " 1 tliink you know that I rcgard the chief rcwrd of my work to lie in tlic fnct thnt when I started fifty years ago to rcpcnt Bunscn's experiments, no one in England scemctl to carc nbout the burning of gnscs, nntl now thcrc is an activc English School, Inrgcly inntlc up of old stnrlcnts . . . rciilly kccn on tlic fiintlnmeiitol study of girs reactions." 'Prof. 11. E. Armstrong, P.R.S., proposing t~ motion for R vote of thanks to tlie Iccturcr, said that tlicy lind hud a mastcrly dcmonstrat.ion of thc npp!ication of scieiitific nicthotl. Ire appcalcd for n grcntcr npprcciation of the scientific method which is the basis of rcscnrch. To uiidcrstand tlic work of such men ns tlic founder of t,liosc lectmes we need wcll written nnd cnrcfully consitlcrcd histories. Thc motion, wliich was seconded by Prof. J. R. Partington, hl.B.E., having h e n put to thc mccting by thc I'rcsidcnt, was cnrricd with ncc!nmnt.ion nnd wits nckno~vletlgcd by Prof. Boric. The Prcsidcnt csprcssctl t,hc tlianks of tlic Coiincil iinrl Fcllo\vs to tlic Governing I3ody of tlic Iinpcrial Collcgc of Scicncc and T~cl~nology for thci r 11ospit:ility. BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY A mccting wns held in tlic Dcpartmcnt of Physiology, London Hospitul AIcdicril Collcgc, Turncr Strcct,, E.1, on December 12, when tlic following papers w r c rcad :-" Obscrvations on the Watcr-Soluble B Vitiiniiii Complcs," by 11. Chick iiiid A. RI. Copping.-Young SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ANALYSTS An ordinary niccting wns Iicld a t tlic Clicniicnl Socictfs Rooms, 13urlington IIousc, on Deccnibcr 3, thc l'rcsident, Dr. J. T. Dunn, I>ciiig in tlic clmir.
CcrtiGcatcs wcrc rcad for thc first tiiiic in favour of :-
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I\-ns proposed by Dr. \V. Cliiytoii. and respontlctl to by Dr. Tiiriibiill, \vlio rcfcrrctl to tlic tlcbt of griititiitlc tlic Society o k c d Dr. Cliiyton for his iii\\*iilii:il~lc iissistiincc, wliicli lint1 donc so niiicli to iiiiikc t I i c syiiiposiiuiii licltl diiririp tlic thy tlic s~icccss i