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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



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MEETING 



Held on the 16th of February, 1910, at 20 Hanover Square, TV. 

 Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., etc., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of January 19, 1910, were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



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

 prints, was read, and the thanks of the Society were voted to the donors. 



From 



Eug. Warming, Dansk Plantevsekst, part 2 The Autlwr. 



24 Micro-slides from the Collection of the late Mr. Fredk.) Miss Fitch 



Fitch J 



An Old Microscope by Tr6court and Georges Oberhaeuser . . j 



An Old Microscope by Browning > The Council. 



Eight Lieberkiihn Microscopes in cases ) 



A Withering's Botanical Microscope Mr. A. N. Disney. 



Two Grayson's Rulings. A complete inch divided into mm- j Mr Conmd BecJ ._ 



dredths of an inch, and 25 mm. divided mto 0'25 mm. . .J 



Mr. C. F. Rousselet described the Old Microscopes mentioned in the 

 foregoing list, the instruments being severally exhibited to the Meeting. 



The President said that before proceeding to read his paper, he 

 wished to be allowed to thank the Fellows of the Society for the honour 

 which they done to him by electing him as their President ; he need 

 hardly say that he appreciated the compliment very highly indeed. It 

 was exactly twenty-five years since he began to work for the Journal of 

 the Society, and he felt it a great honour to be added to the distinguished 

 list of their Presidents, and particularly that he should be the immediate 

 successor of their last President, Sir E. Ray Lankester — than whom since 

 Huxley no Zoologist had made a deeper mark on British biological science. 

 It would be his aim to do all in his power to advance the interests of the 

 Society ; they must not, however, expect too much of him, since he lived 

 at such a great distance from London, and on that account might not be 

 able to be present as often as he wished. 



The President then read his paper, entitled "Notes on Dendro- 

 hn i chia fall ax, a Rare and Divergent Antipatharian," the subject being 

 illustrated by specimens and by a number of preparations exhibited under 

 Microscopes in the room. The difficulty of making satisfactory use of 



