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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 15th of December, 1909, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 E. J. Spitta, Esq., L.R.C.P., etc., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of November 17, 1909, were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) re- 

 ceived since the last Meeting, was read as follows, and the thanks of the 

 Society were voted to the donors : — 



Acta Societas Scientiarum Fennicse, xxxvi. No. 4, "ZurMor-| From 



phologiederAcariden-byEnzioReuter.. . ... I The Author , 



Ditto, xxxvu. No. 7, " Merokmesis, by Enzio Reuter. (4to, f 

 Helsingfors, 1909) J 



William Spiers, Nature through the Microscope. (8vo, London, t ™ Autlwr 

 1909) •• ••/ 



Attention was called to some enlargements of photomicrographs of 

 the an tenure and falces of a female spider exhibited by Mr. H. 8. 

 Cheavin ; to some specimens of the rarer Foraminifera from Selsey Bill, 

 exhibited under a Microscope by Mr. E. H eron- Allen ; and to some 

 photomicrographs of arranged diatoms, etc., from Mr. M. J. Allan, of 

 Geelong. 



The Chairman said : One of the most painful tasks that falls to the 



lot of a Chairman of any Society is having to refer to the death of any 



of its Fellows. In some instances, however^ this task is at the same 



time one of great difficulty, such being especially the case when touching 



the death of a man of such great notoriety and distinction as possessed 



by the late Dr. Dallinger. Born in 1840, he entered the Society in 



1X71, and was for many years one of its most prominent Fellows, 



attaining to the Chair in 1884, a position he occupied for four years. 



Of late, however, we have not often seen him here, in consequence, I 



fear, of the weight of increasing years and loss of that vigorous health 



with which he used apparently to be blessed ; consequently, many 



present here to-night only know of him by reputation rather than by 



any personal knowledge. He was a man of undoubted power, having 



the charm of drawing unusually large audiences. This arose, I think, 



not only from his quiet manner and vigorous method of speech, but 



also from the value of what he had to say, which was always enriched 



by his great personality. I do not propose — for time forbids — to give you 



any details of his remarkable life, of his researches with Dr. Drysdale, 



or of his numerous papers devoted to our science, for all of these 



subjects are related in a far better manner than I could hope to do in 



an article from the pen of our Secretary in the December issue of the 



Journal ; but I must refer before sitting down to a request of the 



Council that I should bring this mournful subject before your notice 



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