792 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the IXth of November, 1908, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 Conrad Beck, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of October 21st, 1008, were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 

 since the last Meeting, was read as follows : — 



Gage, Simon Hy., The Microscope: An Introduction to) From 



Microscopic Methods and Histology. 10th Ed. (Ithaca,} The Author. 



New York, 1908) ) 



Herzog, Alois, Mikrophotographischer Atlas der technischj 



wichtigen Faserstoffe. (4to, T. B. Obernetter, Munich, > The Author. 



1908) J 



Nuttall, G. F. H., Cecil Warburton, W. F.Cooper, and) The Syndics of 



L. E. Robinson, Ticks : A Monograph of the Idoidea, > the Cambridge 



Parti. (8vo, Cambridge, 1908) j University Press. 



!\Konigl. Bohmische 

 Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften in 

 Prag. 

 Slide of " Red Snow," Protococcus nivalis, from Capel Tlie Peary 



Y'ork / Arctic Club. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the Donors. 



The Secretary said that the Fellows of the Society were aware that 

 arrangements had been made for holding Sectional Meetings, the rules 

 for which would be available very shortly, and would be at the service 

 of any Fellows who would apply for them to the Secretaries. In accord- 

 ance with these rules, any ten or more Fellows might combine, if in- 

 terested in a particular subject, to form a section to pursue the study of it. 

 At present it was proposed to form three sections, one for the study of 

 Medical Bacteriology, another for Biology other than Medical Biology, 

 and a third for Brass and Glass. These sections to meet on the first, 

 second and fourth Wednesdays in each month. The first meeting would 

 take place that day week (November 25th) of the Brass and Glass Section, 

 for the purpose of arranging itself and appointing a committee and a 

 Sectional Secretary. A rechauffe would then be given of the Society's 

 exhibit at the Franco-British Exhibition, the instruments shown there 

 being set out in the Library for the purpose. He had received the names 

 of a number of Fellows desirous of joining, and hoped to receive others ; 

 and though anyone who came next Wednesday would be heartily wel- 

 comed, those who sent in their names beforehand would have a postcard 

 sent to them as a reminder of the engagement. On the succeeding Wed- 

 nesdays the other sections would meet, that for Medical Biology under 



