PROCEEDINGS til' tiik SOCIETY. L29 



ANNIYEIiSAKY MEETING 



Held on the 20th oe January, 1909, at 20 Hanover Square, W 

 The Rt. Hon. Lord Avebury, F.R.S., etc., President, i.\ the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of December 16, 1908, and qf the 

 Special Meeting of the same date, were read and confirmed, and were 

 signed by the President. 



Mr. J. E. Conrady and Mr. J. I. Pigg were appointed by the 

 President as Scrutineers of the Ballot for Officers and Council for the 

 ensuing year. 



A Reflecting Microscope, made by Amici, presented to the Society by 

 Mr. S. R. Roget, was exhibited, and was described by Mr. Rousselet, 

 by whom it was regarded as a very valuable donation, as the Society had 

 not hitherto possessed an instrument of this type. It was made in the 

 early part of the last century on the principle of' the Newtonian reflecting 

 telescope in an attempt to overcome the chromatic errors in the 

 Microscope — achromatic objectives not having at that time given 

 satisfactory results. 



The President said this was a most interesting addition to their 

 collection of old Microscopes — for which the thanks of the Society were 

 unanimously voted to Mr. Roget. 



Dr. Hebb said he rose to propose a vote of thanks to Sir Frank Crisp 

 and Mr. E. M. Nelson, who loaned several Microscopes to the Society in 

 order that the collection shown at the Franco-British Exhibition might 

 be rendered historically complete. He begged to move that the special 

 thanks of the Society be given to those gentlemen for their kindness. 



The motion having been put to the Meeting by the President, was 

 unanimously carried. 



Mr. Conrad Beck exhibited and described an instrument, invented 

 by Dr. Leslie Buchanan, consisting of two small Microscopes with 

 negative eye-pieces converged at an angle and used as a binocular 

 instrument for the examination of the eyes of patients by oculists. 

 The eye-pieces are prismatic and adjustable, the distance between the 

 eyes is adjustable — when in use it was strapped upon the head of the 

 operator, the eye-pieces being at a sufficient distance from his eves to 

 enable him to look down to select his instruments, whilst the working- 

 distance was about 3 in. and the magnifying power x 18. 



Mr. P. Watson Baker (for Messrs. W. Watson and Sons, Ltd.), 

 exhibited a new form of Portable Microscope, designed to be free from 

 the complicated folding up and taking to pieces which is usually 



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