PKOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. Ill 



through overlapping of work, by means of a Conjoint Board of Scientific 

 Societies that has been formed under the auspices of the Royal Society 

 of London. The Royal Microscopical Society having been invited to 

 nominate to one seat on this Board, the Council commissioned Mr. 

 E. Heron- Allen to represent its interests during 1917, and' has now 

 requested him to continue to occupy this important post during the year 

 1918. 



FINANCE. 



Owing to various difficulties, it has again proved impossible to prepare 

 a statement of the Society's financial position in time for the Annual 

 Meeting. Comment must therefore be reserved for the February 

 Meeting. 



The President announced that the Scrutineers reported the unani- 

 mous election of the following Fellows to till the various offices : — 



President. — Joseph E. Barnard. 



Vice-Presidents. — Edward Heron-Allen, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.G.S., 

 M.R.I.A., etc. ; F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S. ; Arthur Earland ; Robert 

 Paulson, F.L.S. 



Treasurer.— (^'YviX F. Hill. 



Secretaries.- i. W. H. Byre, M.D., M.S., F.R.S. Edin. ; David J. 

 Scourfield, F.Z.S. 



Ordinary Members of Council. — Alfred X. Disney, M.A., B.Sc. ; 

 R. G. Hebb, M.A., M.D.,>.R.C.P. ; T. H. Hiscott; Benj. Moore, M.A., 

 D.Sc. F.R.S. ; J. Milton Off ord; Percy E. Radley ; Edward J. Sheppard ; 

 A. W. Sheppard ; Charles Singer, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. ; Charles D. 

 Soar, F.L.S. ; Joseph Wilson; B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Librarian. — Percy E. Radley. 



Curator of Instruments, etc. — Charles Singer, M.A., M.D. 



Curator of Slides. — Edwai'd J. Sheppard. 



The President then delivered his valedictory Address, in which he 

 ^ave a review of the war-conditions under which the Society had met 

 since August, 1914, and of such part of the work of the Society as is ripe 

 for publication in connexion with the war. He gave an analysis of 

 the work of the Society's Abstractors during the periods 1901-1913 

 and 1914-1917, and adumbrated a contraction and specialization in the 

 activities of the Society in the future, in the direction of the technical 

 optics of the microscope and its application to all branches of industry 

 and research. 



Mr. Blood moved that the President be asked to allow his most 

 interesting address to be printed in the Journal, and so follow precedent 

 for similar occasions during many years. No words of his were needed 

 to emphasize the desirability of that. 



Mr. Earland seconded the proposal, and it was carried. 



The President said he was very much obliged to the Meeting fortlie 

 kind way in which his address had l)een taken, and would, of course, be 

 proud to see it published in the Journal. 



