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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



AN ORDINARY MEETING 



OF THE Society was held at 20 Hanover Square, AY., on 

 Wednesday, December 18th, 1918, at 5.30 p.m., Mr. J. E. 

 Barnard, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read, confirmed, and signed 

 by the President. 



Mr. Herbert George Blackmore was duly elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



The following Exhibits were made, and votes of thanks passed to 

 the Exhibitors : — 



Mr. Earland : — A slide of Cretaceous Forarainifera from Chalk Marl, 

 taken from a shell crater at Noyelles-sur-Escaut, just inside the 

 Hindenburg Line, sent by Mr. Heron-Allen. 



Mr. E. J. Sheppard: — Slides showing sections of Testes of Hermaphro- 

 dite Goat, sent by Mr. Basil Adams. 



Mr. Scourfield : — Eye-piece Micrometer, by J. Rheinberg, with eccentric 

 scale. 



Col. Castellani read a paper on " Tropical Diseases met with in the 

 Balkanic War Zone." 



The paper was illustrated by microscopical slides showing Oidium 

 asteroides, 0. matalense, 0. rotundatum, Monilia balcanica, Accladium 

 Cast, and Pinnoy, 1916, Fungus, sp. 48, Hemisphora rugosa (Bronch.), 

 TokeJau, and Tinea imbricata, and also by a number of lantern -slides. 

 The paper will appear in the pages of the Journal. 



Dr. Eyre, in moving a very hearty vote of thanks to Col. Castellani 

 for his most interesting paper, which helped to show the valuable place 

 filled by the microscope under war conditions, said that a few years ago 

 the use of the microscope and laboratory methods were looked at askance 

 by the older school, and it had taken a European War to bring home 

 not only to the man in the street but also to the medical practitioner the 

 immense advantages that could be derived from the use of the micro- 

 scope. The experiments of Col. Castellani had helped to win the War, 

 and in bringing them to the notice of the Society he had opened up a 



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