134 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



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

 Edward Heron-Allen, F.L.S. F.Z.S. F.R.Met.S. ; C. F. Hill ; John 

 Hopkiuson ; Henry Geo. Plimmer, F.L.S. ; Thomas H. Powell ; P. E. 

 Radley ; Julius Rheinberg ; Charles F. Ronsselet ; David J. Scourfield ; 

 W. Wesche. 



Librarian — Percy E. Radley. 



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



Curator of Slides— F. Shillington Scales, M.A. M.B. B.C. (Cantab.). 



Pursuant to notice given at the previous Sleeting, the following 

 alterations in the By-laws were suggested by the Council, to meet the 

 resolution carried at the Meeting of the Society in June : — ■ 

 Rule 4. — To omit the words " all being males." 

 „ 27. — Line 4, to omit the word " male " ; line 8, to omit the 

 words " being males." 



These alterations having been moved by Mr. Heron-Allen, and 

 seconded by Mr. Hopkinson, were put to the Meeting by the President, 

 and declared to have been carried. 



The President then gave the Annual Address, in the course of which 

 he congratulated the Society upon its increased prosperity, and, after 

 making appreciative reference to the work of the late Dr. Dallinger, he 

 referred to such work as he thought could be carried out by the Fellows 

 with reference to the action of light upon protoplasm, the differentiation 

 and specific effects of a-, /3-, and y-rays emanating from radium, and the 

 part actually played by bacteria in the processes of digestion. Medical 

 science wanted their assistance in these investigations, which he thought 

 could be, in some directions, better followed up by Naturalists than by 

 Physiologists. Attention was also called to an organism (Clathrocijstis 

 aeruginosa) found by Henfrey in 1852, in a pond in Kew Gardtns, and 

 so named by him, as worthy of their attention. He regretted that he 

 had been unable to attend more of their Meetings, but assured them 

 that he took great interest in the work of the Society. 



Mr. A. D. Michael said he rose to move that the best thanks of the 

 ■Society be given to the President for his Address, and to request that he 

 would allow it to be printed and circulated in the usual way. He need 

 not say that the address was one of very high interest, because the 

 President was not in the habit of writing or delivering addresses that 

 were not so ; but this address was not only one of great scientific in- 

 terest, but also of great practical value, opening up a vast field of research, 

 particularly to the Fellows of their own Society. It was an address 

 which, when printed, would enrich the pages of the Journal. 



Mr. Wynne E: Baxter said he had great pleasure in seconding the 

 vote of thanks to the President for his address, which had been of great 

 interest to them all, and he thought it a great honour that their Pre- 

 sident should have been with them that evening, on the fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of the day when, as President of the Society, his father had delivered 

 the annual address. He had not only given them a most useful and 



