PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 103 



The Scrutineers having handed in their report of the result of the 

 Ballot, the Chairman announced that the following Fellows had been 

 elected as the Officers and Council for the ensuing year:— 



President— Prat. Gt. Sims Woodhead, M.A. M.D. LL.D. F.R.S.E., etc. 



Vice-Presidents — John Hopkinson, F.L.S. F.G.S. F.Z.S. ; Julius 

 Rheinberg ; David J. Scorn-field, F.Z.S. ; E. J. Spitta, L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 

 M.R.C.S. (Bng.). 



Treasurer — Cyril F. Hill. 



Secretaries— J . W. H. Eyre, M.D. F.R.S.E. ; F. Shillington Scales, 

 M.A. M.D. B.C. (Cantab.). 



Ordinary Members of Council — F. W. Watson Baker ; Frederic J. 

 Cheshire ; C. Lees Curties ; Arthur Earland ; R. G. Hebb, M.A. M.D. 

 F.R.C.P. ; Prof. R. T. Hewlett, M.D. F.R.C.P. D.P.H., etc. ; J.Milton 

 Offord : Robert Paulson ; Percy E. Radley ; Charles F. Rousselet ; 

 A. W. Sheppard; Charles D. Soar. 



Librarian — Percy E. Radley. 



Curator of Instruments, etc. — Charles F. Rousselet. 



Curator of Slides — Edward J. Sheppard. 



Dr. Charles Singer, M.A., then communicated his "Notes on the 

 History of the Microscope," on the conclusion of which the Chairman 

 pointed out that the evening's paper on the earliest microscopical 

 investigations of the past formed a most interesting and valuable 

 counterpart to that to which they had listened with so much interest and 

 attention last month, when they had been bidden to look forward to the 

 Microscope of the future, and he thought the contrast might form the 

 basis of an interesting discussion. The subject had not, he thought, been 

 brought before them in quite the same light before. As a rule papers 

 dealing with the beginnings of microscopy had been on the construction 

 and use of the Microscopes and lenses themselves, but he was sure that 

 all would agree that the very early work carried out by the pioneers of 

 microscopical investigation by means of the instruments at their com- 

 mand, formed a most interesting side of the question. 



Dr. Shillington Scales said he would like to add his thanks to those 

 of the Chairman to Dr. Singer for his great kindness in giving his 

 very interesting lecture that evening. He would like to ask Dr. Singer 

 whether he had seen a paper published in the Journal of the Society 

 which had been read a few sessions ago by their late President, Dr. 

 Plimmer, on Leeuwenhoek, dealing with his work and accompanied by 

 several very interesting illustrations ? He had been struck by the great 

 interest of the illustrations handed round by Dr. Singer and thought 

 they would be well worth reproducing in the Journal. 



The Society had both a biological and a microscopical point of view, 

 and he believed that there were few advances in the improvement of 

 the Microscope with which the Society had not been directly associated. 

 It had a unique collection of old instruments and prided itself upon 

 bringing this collection to perfection. He wondered whether Dr. Singer 

 was familiar with this collection. They were at that present moment 



