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Abstract

THE German Chemical Society in entering upon its thirteenth year has elected as president Prof. H. Kopp, of Heidelberg, who for some time past has devoted himself almost exclusively to the chronicling of the history of chemistry. At the same time Prof. Roscoe, of Manchester, and Prof. Marignac, of Geneva, who was compelled a year since by advanced age to relinquish active professorial duties, were elected to honorary membership. The Society now numbers 2,086, of whom 14 are honorary members and about 200 resident at Berlin. The Berichte of the Society, now certainly the most important chemical periodical of the day, forms for the past year a volume of over 2,550 pages containing over 600 communications. An exhaustive index of the first ten years is now in the press, and will soon be ready. The already bulky dimensions of the Berichte, with its constant yearly increase in size, have forced the council of the Society to propose an increase in the membership fee, which instead of 15s. shall be raised to 20s. annually. The fact that the Society can cover its ordinary expenses and send post free to its members in all parts of the world a periodical of the size above mentioned for so modest an annual fee, affords an interesting glimpse into the comparative cost of scientific association and activity in Germany and in our own country, where the expenses of membership in most of the scientific societies often exclude those in limited circumstances.