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That you may ever rule over an affectionate and grateful people, is 

 the earnest wish and ardent prayer of your Majesty's loyal and 

 dutiful subjects the Fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society. 



May it Please Your Majesty, 



We, the President, Vice-Presidents, Council, Officers, and Fellows 

 of the Royal Microscopical Society, humbly implore leave to intrude 

 upon your Majesty's sacred sorrow by giving expression to our grief 

 at the death of our beloved Sovereign King Edward VII., the Patron 

 of our Society. We humbly beg to offer our dutiful sympathy to 

 your Majesty, and to assure you it is our heartfelt prayer that 

 Almighty God will give you comfort in this your sad bereavement. 



The Addresses were accepted in silence, and the Meeting was then 

 adjourned until Wednesday, May 25, at 7 p.m. 



MEETING 



Held on the 25th of May, 1910, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 A. N. Disney, Esq., M.A. B.Sc, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meetings of April 20 and May 18, 1910, were 

 read and confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



The List of Donations to the Society received since the last Meeting, 

 exclusive of exchanges and reprints, was read as follows, and the thanks 

 of the Society were voted to the donors. 



From 

 British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9. Vol. L, Biologyj Sir j^ H Shackleton. 



(4to, London, 1910) J 



An Old Microscope Mr. C. F. Rousselet. 



An Old Microscope, Culpeper and Scarlet Model . . Mr. A. Ashe. 



Two Slides of Insects, mounted by the late B. F.\ D y A L ^ 



Quirnby, of Chicago j 



Dr. Hebb said they had two papers for that Meeting, the first being 

 by Dr. M. D. Ewell, " On Comparative Micrometric Measurements," 

 and the second by Messrs. E. Heron-Allen and Arthur Earland, " On 

 the Recent and Fossil Foraminifera of the Shore Sands of Selsey Bill, 

 Sussex. Part V. The Cretaceous Foraminifera." These papers they 

 would no doubt wish to be taken as read. On the motion of the 

 Chairman this course was agreed to. 



Dr. Hebb said he regretted to have to report the deaths of Professor 

 Agassiz and Professor van Beneden, who were Honorary Fellows of the 

 Society ; also that of Sir William Huggins, who was one of their oldest 

 Fellows, having jomed the Society in 1853. 



