First Meeting: 1st May, 1912.
Present: Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S., President, in the chair, and thirty others.

Congratulations.—The congratulations of the Institute were accorded to Dr. Cockayne on the award to him of the Hector Medal, and also on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Address—Mr. A. M. Wright, the retiring President, then delivered his ex-presidential address on “The Chemist and the Community.”