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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 17th of Februaky, 1909, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 Sir E. Ray Lankester, K.C.B., F.R.S., etc., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The President said he wished, on taking the Chair for the first time, 

 to thank the Fellows of the Society very much for the honour they had 

 done him in electing him the President of the Society. It was just fifty 

 years since his dear father occupied that position, and the remembrance 

 of that fact gave him additional pleasure in accepting the honour which 

 they had conferred upon him. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of January 20th, 1909, were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed. by the President. 



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Mr. E. Heron-Allen. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 

 since the last Meeting, was read, and the thanks of the Society were 

 voted to the Donors. 



From 

 C. U. Maaloe, Histopathologiske Studier over Processus \ 



Vermiforrnis (with summary in English) and - The Author. 



Portfolio of Plates. (8vo, Copenhagen, 1908) . . . . ) 



E. J. Spitta, Microscopy. 2nd Ed. (8vo, London, 1909) The Author. 



Eugen, Warming, Botany of the Faeroes. (8vo, \ „, 4 ... 



Copenhagen and Christiania, and London, 1901-1908) I l m matia > • 



mi -r> • -m n n,w /o t i \ The President & Council 



The Darwin- Wallace Celebration. (8vo, London, 1908) > frp] ie Linnean Society. 



A Wilson Screw-barrel Single Pocket Microscope, 



made by E. Culpeper 



A Small Wilson Screw-barrel Single Pocket Microscope, 



made by George Sterrop 



A Simple Pocket Microscope, made by Banks 



A Lieberkuhn " Transparent Solar Microscope," made 



by Dollond 



Six Slides of Foraminifera from the Adriatic, mounted \ 



on the points of needles so that the specimens can I M r , e. Heath. 



be rotated j 



A description of the four Old Microscopes presented by Mr. Heron- 

 Allen was read by Dr. Hebb. 



A paper " On the ' Red Snow ' Plant (Sphserella nivalis),'''' by Dr. 

 G-. S. West, was read to the Meeting by Dr. Hebb, and is printed in the 

 Journal of the Society for February 1909, pp. 28-30. 



The President, in asking for remarks on this paper, said that he 

 had seen this alga in alpine regions, particularly in a small lake near 

 Grindelwald, which in the autumn was found to be full of it, but he had 

 never seen it on the snow. 



