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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 20th of April, 1904, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of the 16th of March, 1904, were 

 read and confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



The List of Donations to the Society, exclusive of exchanges and 

 reprints, was read, and the thanks of the Society were voted to the 

 Donors. 



From 

 Cowan, T. W. The Honey Bee. 2nd edition. (8vo, London, - ! mi . .,, 



1904) I The Author. 



Gage, Simon H. The Microscope. 9th edition. (8vo, Ithaca, •> —, . J7 



1904) r Author. 



I The Committee of the 



Tank Microscope, by Thos. Ross ■; Quekett Microscopical 



1 Club. 



The Secretary called attention to a copy of the ninth edition of 

 Gage's Work on the Microscope, which he considered to be one of the 

 most useful treatises dealing with the subject. It was a work which 

 should be in the hands of anyone desirous of becoming thoroughly 

 acquainted with the manipulation of the Microscope and with micro- 

 scopical technique. He then referred to a book on the Honey-bee, 

 presented by T. W. Cowan, a Fellow of the Society. 



A Tank Microscope, by Ross, presented to the Society by the Quekett 

 Microscopical Club, was exhibited in the room, and the thanks of the 

 Society were unanimously voted to the club for this interesting 

 donation. 



Mr. Karop said that the instrument had been presented to the 

 Quekett Microscopical Club, by Mr. Thos. Ross, as far back as 1870. 

 What may have been the circumstances of the gift he could not say, 

 but years before (1870), the keeping of marine aquaria had been a 

 popular mania, and one knew that Microscopes had been devised for 

 use in connection with them, such as, for instance, Warington's, de- 

 scribed in the first edition of Carpenter, p. 91. In any case this 

 particular instrument was a beautifully made and highly finished piece 

 of work, having nearly every conceivable adjustment ; and although it 

 did not possess much scientific or any value at the present time, and 

 was useless except, perhaps, for exhibiting such objects as small flowers 

 and so forth at soirees, yet it was certainly a beautiful specimen of the 

 optician's art, and, therefore, worthy of a place in the Society's collection. 



