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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 15th of February, 1911, at 20 Hanover Square, "W., 

 H. G. Plimmer, Esq., F.R.S., Etc., President, in the Chair. 



Before calling upon the Secretary to read the Minutes, the President 

 expressed his desire to thank the Council and Fellows of the Micro- 

 scopical Society for doing him the honour of electing him as their 

 President. The dynasty of the Presidency had been changed from 

 Zoology to that of Pathology, and he Avould use his best endeavours to 

 see that the high position of the Society should suffer no loss from the 

 change. It would be his very great privilege to do all that lay in his 

 power to advance the welfare of the Society. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of January 18 were read and con- 

 firmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations received since the last Meeting was read as 

 follows, and the thanks of the Societv voted to the donors : — 



S. O. Mast, Light and the Behaviour of Organisms . . The Publishers. 

 Old Microscope by J. Simons The late Council. 



In presenting the Microscope, Mr. Rousselet, Curator of instruments, 

 stated that it was made by J. Simons. The date of the Microscope was 

 about 1790 to 1800, and it bore a very close resemblance to instruments 

 made by George Adams about the year 1780. The body was large, and 

 the limb was a triangular bar hinged to a pillar with folding tripod foot. 

 The whole Microscope was made of brass, and was very massive. The 

 stage was rectangular and carried a lens below, mounted in a tube. The 

 Microscope would be a very useful addition to the Society's collection of 

 old instruments. 



The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. Rousselet for his 

 description. 



Mr. Lees Curties then exhibited a new dark-ground illuminator 

 which he had recently made for Mr. Nelson, and said that Mr. Nelson, 

 who in 1884 * strongly recommended the Fellows of this Society to use 

 a dark ground for viewing bacilli, had frequently told him that he had 



* See this Journal, 1884, p. 497. 



