130 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Mr. Shillington Scales announced that the Scrutineers having 

 handed in their report as to the result of the ballot, the following 

 Fellows proposed by the Council had been duly elected as the Officers 

 and Council of the Society for the ensuing year : — 



Fresuknt—Bemj Geo. Plimmer, F.R^S. F.L.S. F.Z.S. 



Vice-Presidents — E. G. Hebb ; Edward Heron-Allen ; P..E. Radley ; 

 Charles F. Rousselet. 



Treasurer — Wynne E. Baxter. 



Secretaries — J. W. H. Eyre ; F. Shillington Scales. 



Ordinary Members of the Council— 5. E. Barnard ; Conrad Beck ; 

 Frederic J. Cheshire ; Chas. Lees Curties ; A. N. Disney ; Arthur 

 Earland ; C. F. Hill ; John Hopkinson ; Julius Bheinberg ; David J. 

 Scourfield ; E. J. Spitta ; G. Sims Woodhead. 



Librarian — Percy E. Radley. 



Curator of Instruments, etc. — Charles F. Rousselet. 



Curator of Slides — F. Shillington Scales. 



The President then gave his Annual Address, "On certain Blood- 

 parasites." 



In his preliminary remarks to his Address, 



The President said that he thanked the Fellows of the Royal Micro- 

 scopical Society very sincerely for the great honour they had done him in 

 electing him as their President for the second time ; he could not but be 

 full of wonder that such a thing could happen at all, and of pride that it 

 had happened even unto him. 



He then delivered the Annual Address, in the course of which he said 

 that it would be most appropriate if he were to give the Society a resume 

 of the year's microscopical work, as had often before been done from that 

 Chair, but he felt that he could not add one jot to the exposition of the 

 papers they had heard, or to the clearness of the abstracts of general 

 microscopical work in the Journal ; so that he felt obliged to fall back 

 on his own work, and to try and engage the Society's attention upon a 

 subject in which he was personally interested, namely, " On certain Blood- 

 parasites." He had one excuse for talking of this part of his own work, 

 and that was that it Avas entirely microscopical, and as such was in place. 



He then described his own experiences, resulting from the examina- 

 tion of the blood of over 8000 different animals, in which he had found 

 many new extra- and intra-cellular parasites, types of which were de- 

 scribed and thrown upon the screen. 



In conclusion, he urged all branches of the Society to continue un- 

 ceasingly their good work, so that nothing should remain nnseen because 

 of our instruments, or our methods, or want of methods. 



Mr. Michael said that he had been asked to propose the usual resolu- 

 tion, thanking their President for his Address, and asking him to allow 

 the Society to publish it in their Journal. He ventured to commence 

 his few remarks by disagreeing with the President on one point. The 

 President had opened his Address to the Society by saying that it would 

 have been better if he had been able to give them a summary of the 

 year's microscopic work. In his (Mr. Michael's) opinion no presidential 

 addresses were less remembered than those in which the speaker restricted 

 himself to a mere summary of the year's work. When, however, the 

 gentleman who occupied the presidential chair gave his Address on his 

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