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inadequately explained to unaccustomed ears, in a stage wh'sper, by 

 harassed exhibitors. The Fellows and Visitors who assist the Council 

 on that occasion will be invited to send a note of their exhibits before- 

 hand to Mr. 1-). J. 8courtield, who will deliver an address dealinj^ shortly 

 with each exhiltit, which address will be supplemented, as he proceeds, 

 by the exhibitors themselves. 



In June, I hope that Mr. J. E. Barnard will communicate to the 

 scientific world, through the medium of this Society, the progress and 

 results of some of his studies in branches of microscopic research which, 

 it is common knowledge, are awaited with impatient interest by a very 

 large circle of scientific men. 



When we reassemble after the summer recess we shall have, unless 

 conditions have by that time rendered it impossible, a paper by Professor 

 S. J. Hickson, F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in the University of 

 Manchester, on the branch of zoology with which his name is especially 

 connected, and one by Mrs. Helen Pixell Goodrich upon the history of 

 and the recent work that has been done upon the mysterious dental 

 disease known as Pyorrhoea. I am in communication with other 

 specialists no less eminent with a view to other and not less important 

 communications. 



* Now, all these subjects, of which a Programme will be issued as soon 

 as possible, are subjects upon which certain of our Fellows have made 

 special studies, and in the name of the Oouncil I invite such Fellows to 

 come forward with the offer of papers on kindred subjects which may 

 be grouped on the same evenings ; and, to go back to the principle 

 which I enunciated at the beginning of my address, at all the meetings 

 a special feature will be made of the technical methods 'to be employed 

 with a view to showing the obtained results in the highest perfection 

 which the progress of scientific Microscope construction has rendered 

 possible. 



In conclusion, I may say that I hope before the next meeting to 

 communicate the substance of what I have now said to all Fellows of 

 the Society who should be able to attend our meetings, and to take part 

 in what I hope will be, and which no effort of mine will be spared to 

 make, a new era in the History of the Royal Microscopical Society. 



Mr. Scourfield then read Mr. Rousselet's notes explanatory of the 

 exhibition of " Statoblasts of Fresh-water Protozoa," arranged under the 

 Microscopes upon the tables. 



The President said the Society was favoured with the presence of 

 Dr. Harmer, F.R.S., of the Natural History Museum, and he would be 

 glad if that gentleman would favour the Society with some connnentaries 

 on the remarkable collection of Statoblasts exhibited by Mr. Charles F. 

 Rousselet. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer thanked the President for kindly inviting him to 

 be present, and for speaking such appreciative words to the Society. 

 He feared, however, that he could not claim to possess any special 



