Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland

AT the fifty-fifth annual general meeting of the Institute of Chemistry held on March 1, the Meldola medal was presented to Dr. L. E. Sutton, of Oxford, and the Sir Edward Frankland medal

and prize to Mr. L. Young, of the Royal College of Science. In moving the adoption of the report of Council, the president, Dr. G. C. Clay ton, remarked on the increasing activity of the

Institute. Dr. Clayton pointed out that for positions of control, science alone does not suffice: the chemist must acquire much knowledge and experience and become endowed with those not

less-important qualities of character, judgment and tact, which responsibility entails. Not only competition, but also discovery and invention, together with modern methods in administration

and management, have contributed to the existence of conditions which are bewildering to economists and financiers. These difficulties are not new: they were present when the mechanisation

of industry started but have not become more acute. It is for chemists to put our old industries in the mosu favourable position to meet competition, and even more to branch out into new

lines, especially new industries, which, by giving employment, will absorb some of those displaced by world competition in many of the heavy industries. Prof. J. F. Thorpe was elected

president of the Institute in succession to Dr. Clayton.

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