132 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society was announced for January L8th 

 next, when the President would give the annua] address, the subject of 

 which would be announced later on. 



The following Instruments, Objects, etc., were exhibited : — 



Mr. W. R. Traviss — A New Microscope Lamp. 



Mr. Jas. Murray — A series of drawings in illustration of his paper. 



New Fellows — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows of the 

 Society : — William John Caird, John Arthur Carter, R. T. Hewlett. 



MEETING 



Held on the 18th of January, 1911, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 Professor J. Arthur Thomson, M.A. F.R.S.E., President, in 

 the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of December 21 last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The President said that before passing on to formal business, he 

 thought a few words should be said in deploring the great loss the world 

 had sustained in the death of Sir Francis Galton, which took place on 

 the evening of January 17. He was not a Fellow of the Microscopical 

 Society, but he certainly was one of the princes of science in Great 

 Britain, and his loss would be much felt by all those who were in any 

 way connected with scientific work. 



Messrs. J. I. Pigg and A. W. Sheppard were appointed by the Presi- 

 dent as Scrutineers of the Ballot for the election of Officers and Council 

 of the Society for the ensuing year. 



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

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

 were voted to the donors : — 



From 



D. G. Stead, A Brief Review of the Fisheries of New South] ,-,• , • \r , Q n , ti 

 Wales, Present and Potential. (8vo, Sydney, 1910) . . J ^ales 



Richard T. Baker and Henry G. Smith, A Research on the I „? a *hnr 

 Pines of Australia. (8vo, Sydney, 1910) / J-ne munois. 



Mr. T. Chalkley Palmer, in explanation of the slide of Surirella 

 elegans exhibited by him, stated that there had been three or four theories 



