PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 151 



President— William Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Vice-Presidents— Alfred W. Bennett, Esq., M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S. ; 

 George C. Karop, Esq., M.R.C.S.'; A. D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S. ; 

 E. M. Nelson, Esq. 



Treasurer — J. J. Vezey, Esq. 



Secretaries— Rev. W. H. Dallinger, LL.D., F.R.S. ; R. G. Hebb, Esq., 

 M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. 



Twelve other Members of Council— James Mason Allen, Esq. ; Conrad 

 Beck, Esq. ; Robert Braitbwaite, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., F.L.S. ; Edward 

 Thomas Browne, B.A. ; Rev. Edmund Carr, M.A., F.R.Met.S. ; Edward 

 Dadswell, Esq. ; The Hon. Sir Ford North ; Henry Geo. Plimmer, Esq., 

 M.R.C.S., F.L.S.; Thomas H. Powell, Esq.; Charles F. Rousselet, 

 Esq. ; John Tatham, Esq., M.A. M.D., F.R.C.P. ; George Western, Esq. 



Curator — Charles F. Rousselet, Esq. 



The President said that there remained only one further duty for 

 him to perform, which was to ask his friend Mr. Carruthers to take the 

 chair. He said that no introduction would be necessary on his part, as 

 Mr. Carruthers had been a Fellow for twenty years, and it was upwards 

 of thirty years ago that he read his first paper before the Society. He 

 thought the Society were very fortunate in securing the services of so 

 eminent a President as Mr. Carruthers, and it was with very great 

 pleasure that he now asked him to take the chair. 



Mr. Carruthers, having taken the chair, said it was not expected that 

 he should address the Fellows of the Society at any length on that 

 occasion, but he should like to express his grateful sense of their great 

 kindness in asking him to take a chair which had been occupied by so 

 many distinguished men in the past. He had already had some ex- 

 perience of the Council, and knew he might count upon their assistance ; 

 and he would now call upon the Fellows of the Society for their in- 

 dulgence and for their assistance in carrying on the work of the Society, 

 feeling sure that the work would be rendered more interesting if all 

 took a personal interest and share in it. He must express his own 

 sense of unfitness to succeed one so well acquainted with every detail 

 connected with the Microscope as Mr. Nelson. He had for half a 

 century used the instrument for the purpose of investigation, but he 

 knew little about the building up of the Microscope or the mathematical 

 conditions which govern the construction of its lenses, subjects in 

 which Mr. Nelson had been so well able to instruct them. He hoped, 

 however, that he might be able to place before them some of the results 

 which had been secured through the help of the Microscope. 



Mr. Western moved a vote of thanks to the Officers and Council 

 of the Society for their services during the past year, especially to 

 Mr. Vezey for his kindness in coming forward to assist the Council at 

 such short notice in the way he had done. 



Mr. Marshall having seconded the motion, it was put to the Meeting 

 and carried unanimously. 



