PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9788, 11 October 1917, Page 2

PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

(TBOHNOLOGIOAL section meets. There Was a satisfactory attendance of mam'bers of the technological section of (the Wellingltim Philosophical .Society at the annual meriting of the section at the dominion Museum last evening. Mr f\ W. Purkert, A.M. Inst.. C. 8.. presided. The report for the past session, was tread and adopted. The election <xf officebearers fer the ensuing year resu’lted:

Chairman, Mr 8. H. Jenkinson; vicechairmen, Messrs E. Parry and W. S. La Trobe; committee. Professor H. Clarke. Dr Madaurin, Messrs B. W Holmes, H. Sladden. and F. W. Furkeitt; secretary, ibr A. Patterson. Subsequently an interesting paper cs "Crystal Analysis by Means of X Kays was read bv Professor Clarke. He dealt with, the Importanft developments ot -ihyeioal chemistry which _ enable tbo atqmic structure of crystalline naiserlahi to be detarrainod and measured. Professor .Clarke exjxdlb! ted fine models of mosth simple arrangements in which atoms of various common cry stale arrange themselves, and made rorv evident the almost indecent fairiliiari/ty with which the modern eolentM dhrsocte the ultimate formation of matters. Other pipers on the order paper comprised ■'Corrosion by Mine Water." by Proieseor Hastarfieldi "Failure of High Tendon Inem-atom," by Mr B. Parry, B.Sc. s and "Some Torque Diagram*." by Mir B- H. Jenkinson