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5. Only one Sectional Meeting shall be held on any one evening, 

 the dates of Meeting for each Section to be fixed by the Sectional Secre- 

 taries in agreement with the Assistant Secretary of the Society. 



6. Visitors may be present at Sectional Meetings on the invitation of 

 Members of the Sections. 



7. No account of the proceedings at the Sectional Meetings Bhall be 

 published in any form whatever, except such as the Editor may think 

 fit to publish in the Journal of the Society, and no action shall be taken 

 by the Sections which would involve the Society in any financial or 

 other liability. 



8. Any Member of a Section may withdraw therefrom upon notice 

 given to the Secretary of the Section, and he shall cease to be a Member 

 if he discontinues his attendance at the Meetings of the Section for the 

 period of a whole Session, or if he ceases to be a Fellow of the Society. 

 In case the Membership of any Section shall fall below the number of 

 five and continue to be less than five for the period of a Session of the 

 Society, that Section shall be dissolved and automatically become extinct 

 at the end of that Session. Any Section may at any time be dissolved 

 by a resolution of the Council of the Society. 



9. The Council may suspend any Fellow from Membership of a 

 Section for the infringement of any of these Rules or for any other 

 reason it may deem sufficient. 



Note. — For the present the Sections authorised are as follows : — 



A. Microscopical Optics and Microscope Construction Section 



(Brass and Glass). 



B. Biological Section (Pond Life and Microscopical Organisms 



generally). 



C. Bacteriological Section (Histology, Bacteriology, Disease- 



producing Organisms, etc.). 

 These Sections have been duly constituted, and are now meeting as 

 follows : — 



1st Wednesday at 8 p.m Bacteriological. 



2nd „ „ 7 for 7.30 p.m. . Biological. 



•4th „ „ „ ... Brass and Glass. 



B. Technique.* 

 CI) Collecting Objects, including- Culture Processes. 



"Marine Expeditions.! — A- &• Mayer laments the loss of time, the 

 yaste of money and energy of the numerous marine expeditions 

 organised by civilised nations, and then describes his plan for obtaining 

 more valuable results. It is an improvement on the general practice 

 which has hitherto obtained, viz. that of sending out a collecting vi - 

 and relegating the catches to experts at home. For this procedure the 

 author would establish shore stations, properly equipped in all respects, 

 i.e. as to men and material. These stations would be served by the 



* This subdivision contains (1) Collecting Objects, including Culture Pro- 

 cesses; (2) Preparing Objects ; (3) Cutting, including Imbedding and Microtomes; 

 <4) Staining and Injecting ; (5) Mounting, including slides, preservative fluids, etc. ; 

 (6) Miscellaneous. t Science, xxvii. (1908) pp. 669-71. 



