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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



A SPECIAL MEETING 



of the Society (under By-law 100) was held on Wednesday, Feb- 

 ruary 17, 1915, at 20 Hanover Square, for the purpose of discussing 

 the proposal for a new by-law forbidding the improper use of the 

 letters " F.R.M.S." for advertising purposes. There were present 

 Professor G. Sims Woodhead, M.A. M.D., etc., the President, in the 

 Chair, and thirty-two Fellows. 



The Secretary, Dr. Eyre, read the notice convening the Special 

 Meeting, which had been circulated with the Proceedings. 



The mover of the motion, Dr. Shillington Scales, being absent owing 

 to ill-health, the President adjourned the Special Meeting sine die. 



The President then declared the Meeting to be an Ordinary one, 

 and the minutes of the Meeting of January 20, 1915, were read, con- 

 firmed, and signed by the President. 



The following Donation received since the last Meeting was 

 announced, and the thanks of the Society accorded to the donors : — 



From 

 Doncaster, L., The Determination of Sex. 1914 .. Cambridye University Press. 



Professor G. Sims Woodhead, M.A. M.D. LL.D., etc., then delivered 

 his Presidential Address, on " Some of the Micro-biological Problems of 

 the Present War." 



On the conclusion of which, 



Mr. J. E. Barnard said he felt sure he was only giving expression to 

 the feelings of those present in saying how much they had enjoyed 

 Professor Sims Woodhead's intensely interesting and very appropriate 

 address. If he might say so, the Society was particularly indebted to 

 Professor Sims Woodhead at this time, for lie had stepped into the 

 breach when the Society, in common with many other societies, was 

 not free from difficulties, and had consented to take the responsibility 

 of the presidency for a further term, when he was more than fully 



