PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 727 



MEETING 



Held on the 20th op November, 1901, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 

 W. Carrutheus, Esq., P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of 16th of October last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



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

 reprints), received since the last Meeting, was read as follows : — 



From 

 Carpenter, W. B., The Microscope and its Revelations,] 



8th edition, edited bv Dr. Dallinger (8vo, London, > The Rev. Dr. Dallinger. 



1901) .. ..* ) 



Gage, Simon Hy., The Microscope, 8th edition (8vo,\ Th . , 



Ithaca, 1901) J me Autnor. 



Pigg, T. Strangeways, Clinical Pathology and Practical I Thp p,. hl{s1)t>rs 



Morbid Hiatology, 2nd edition (8vo, London, 1901 ) f ine 1 mumers - 



Nelson, E. M., Opuscula Miscellanea — Reprints ofj 



papers read before the Royal Microscopical Society > The Author. 



and the Quekett Microscopical Club ) 



t The Rev. Canon Carr ; 

 Mr. J. W. Gifford ; 

 A Microscope by Powell and Lealand, dated 1848 .. < Mr. Sidney T. Klein ; 



j Mr. A. D. Michael ; 

 I Mr. Edward M. Nelson. 



A Microscope by Plossl et Cie., Wien The Rt. Hon. Sir Ford North. 



An old Microscope by Hugh Powell Messrs. Wm. Watson & Sons. 



An old Microscope by John Cuff Mr. G. Lees Curties. 



Descriptions of three of the Microscopes presented to the Society 

 had been written by Mr. E. M. Nelson, and, in his absence, were read 

 to the Meeting as under : — 



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(1) A Microscope by Messrs. Powell & Lealand, dated 1848, pre- 

 sented to the Royal Microscopical Society bv the Rev. Canon Carr, J. W. 

 Gifford, Sidney T. Klein, A. D. Michael, Edward M. Nelson. 



Powell & Lealand's Microscope, dated 1848, signed " Powell & 

 Lealand, 4 Seymour Place, Euston Square, London, 1848." This 

 is historically an important, but not a very common, form of Powell's 

 Microscopes. An account of it was first published in the London 

 Physiological Journal, November 1843.* 



This is the first instance where we have a Microscope hanging in a 

 tripod in the same way that a kettle hangs from a tripod of sticks in 

 a gipsy's encampment. The term " gipsy tripod " would by no means 

 be a bad one to denote this form of Microscope-stand. This is also 

 the first Microscope where the fine adjustment moves a nose-piece by 



* A copy of this rare work, of which only five numbers were published, is in our 

 Library. 



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