88 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



AN ORDINARY MEETING 



OF THfc Society was Held at 20 Hanover Square, W., on 

 Wednesj)Ay, February 19th, 1919, Mr. J. E. Barnard, 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read, confirmed, and 

 signed by the President. 



The Nomination Papers were read of the following candidates for 

 Fellowship : — 



Capt. Raymond S. Harper, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 

 Rev. A. F. Gordon Mackay. 

 Mr. Albert Taylor. 



New Fellows.— The following were elected Ordinary Fellows of the 

 Society : — 



Mr. Ahmed Zaky Abushady, L.M.S.S.A. 

 Mr. Ernest Henry Grant. 



Donations to the Society were reported from : — 



The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research- 

 " The Theory of Modern Optical Instruments." 



The Macmillan Company — 



" Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses." 



The thanks of the Society were accorded to the donors. 



An Exhibit of Stains, Reagents, and Mounting Media for Micro- 

 scopical Purposes, and Indicators used in Bacteriology and Volumetric 

 Analysis, manufactured by the British Drug Houses, Ltd., was shown by 

 their representative, Mr. Thomas Tusting Cocking, F.I.C. 



The exhibit was arranged for the purpose of bringing to the notice 

 of Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society, dyes, stains, and other 

 microscopical requisites, of guaranteed purity and of British manufac- 

 ture, so that microscopists could rely upon obtaining British preparations- 

 of uniform purity to replace the pre-war German products. 



Specimens of the following were exhibited, showing that much has 

 already been accomplished in this direction, and it was confidently 

 anticipated that the experiments that were being made would result in 



