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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 17th of October, 1900, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 

 The President (W. Carruthers, Esq., F.R.S.) in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of June 20th last were read and con- 

 firmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations to the Society (exclusive of exchanges and 



reprints) received since the last Meeting was read, and the thanks of the 



Society were voted to the donors. 



From 



Fischer, Alfred, The Structure and Functions of Bacteria. Trans- j 



lated from the German by A. Coppen Jones. (8vo, Oxford,) The Publishers. 

 1900) ) 



Jorgensen, Alfred, Micro-organisms and Fermentation. Trans- 

 lated by Alex. K. Miller and A. E. Lennholm. 3rd edition. \ The Publishers. 

 (Svo, London, 1900) ) 



Lee, Arthur Bolles, The Microtomist's Vade-Mecum. 5th edition. \ m, j,,/j, _ 

 (Svo, London, 1900) J 



Percival, John, Agricultural Botany. (Svo, London, 1900) .. .. The Publishers. 



The President said he could speak for Prof. Percival's book as 

 being original both as to the text and as to the drawings. It was a 

 valuable contribution to the subject of agricultural botany. 



Dr. Hebb brought before the notice of the Meeting a sample box of 

 Microscopic Stains prepared by Messrs. Burroughs and Wellcome. The 

 stains were in a solid form, each " soloid," as they are termed, contain- 

 ing a definite amount of the staining reagent. The manipulation of 

 the soloids is simple, as they only need dissolving to be ready for use. 

 The advantages of this form of preparation are simplicity and economy. 

 The most used microscopic stains and reagents, such as gentian-violet, 

 fuchsin, methylen-blue, Gram's iodine, Bismarck-brown, are to be had 

 in this convenient form. 



Mr. C. Beck exhibited a new pattern instrument which was called 

 the London Microscope. It was a small Student's Microscope with 

 nothing specially novel about it except its cheapness. It had a rack- 

 and-pinion coarse adjustment, most perfect micrometer screw fine adjust- 

 ment, vulcanite top stage, iris diaphragm in sliding tube, and spiral sub- 

 stage fitting. It was of the Continental form, and there was nothing 

 original about it except the method of manufacture, by which it was 



