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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 20th of Februaet, 1907, at 20 Hanover Square, W, 

 The Right Hon. Lord Avebury, P.C, F.R.S., President, 



IN THE Chair, 



The President said that before asking the Secretary to read the 

 Minutes, he should Hke to express his thanks to the Fellows of the 

 Society for the great honour they had conferred upon him by electing 

 him the President of this very important Society, of which he had 

 himself been a Fellow for many years, although from the pressure of 

 other engagements, he had not been able to attend the Meetings so often 

 as he could have wished, and he cuuld assure them that he should 

 endeavour to do whatever he could to advance the prosperity of the 

 Society. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of the 16th of January, 1907, were 

 read and confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The Secretary announced that Mr. Hilton had sent a quantity of 

 material consisting of Polycistin^e from Springfield for distribution ; 

 also that some diatomaceous earth from Dunrobin had been sent by 

 Mr. Earl for the same purpose. Fellows desiring to have any of this 

 were asked to make appHcation f or it to Mr. Parsons. 



The List of Donations to the Library, exclusive of exchanges and 

 reprints, received since the last Meeting, was read as follows : — 



From 



Andrew Balfour, Second Eeport of the WeUcome Research | 

 Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum. J 

 (8vo, Khartoum, 1906) ) 



Alfred C. Chapman and F. G. S.Baker, An Atlas of the Saccha-^ 

 romycetes. (4to, London, 1906) j 



Abraham Flatters, The Cotton Plant. (8vo, London, 1906) .. 



W. A. Herdman, Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries and Marine) 

 Biology. Report to the Government of Ceylon. Part V. > 

 (4to, London, 1906) ) 



The Franklin Bicentennial Celebration, Philadelphia, 1906. „, ., , . , 

 (8vo, Philadelphia, 1906) Socwh 



The Director 

 of the Institute. 



The Director of 

 tlie Laboratories. 



The Authors. 



The Author. 



The Royal 

 Society. 



The American 



Recueil de I'lnstitut Botanique. Tome XL (Brussels, 1906) .. ) 

 Cours Pratique de IMicrochemie V6getale. By Leo Errara . . ) 

 Powell and Lealand No. 2 Stand (1885), and accessories .. . N 

 Powell and Lealand No. 3 Stand (1848), and accessories .. 



Hugh Powell Tank Microscope, and accessories 



W. J. Salmon, Stand with eye-piece, etc V 3fr. Peyton 



W. Matthews, Stand with eye-piece I T. B. Beale 



Powell and Lealand, Portions of a Goniometer 



S. Highley, five Low-power Objectives 



Miscellaneous apparatus 



On the motion of the President, the thanks of the Society were 

 unanimously voted to the donors. 



