374 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 15th of May, 1912, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 H. Ct. Plimmer, Esq., F.R.S., etc.. President, in the Chair. 



The Minutest of the Meeting of April 17, 1912, were read aud con- 

 firmed, and were signed by the President. 



The list of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 

 since the last Meeting was read as follows, and the thanks of the Society 

 were voted to the donors : — 



From 

 Report of the Eighteenth Meeting of the British Association, \ q- -p, ^ rt ■ 



1911. (8vo, London, 1912) j ^^'^ ^''"''^^ ^'"'^P- 



Apparatus, Pamphlets, etc., belonging to the late Joseph i The Exors. of the 



Jackson Lister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / late Lord Lister, 



The Secretary read the following letter from Dr. Eugene Penard, of 

 Geneva, who had been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Micro- 

 scopical Society : — 



Geneva, May 6, 1912. 

 Dear Sir, 



I received a few days ago your letter of April 29, by which you 

 informed me that at the last meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society 

 I was elected an Honorary Fellow. 



I wish to offer the Members of your Society my most sincere thanks 

 for the honour they bestowed upon me, an honour which I have the 

 greatest pleasure in accepting. However weak my merits may have been 

 in trying to study Nature, I feel rather proud in feeling that such a 

 Society as yours has found them worthy of esteem, and this consideration 

 which the Royal Microscopical Society was so kind as to prove for my 

 studies will be an inducement to do my best in the future for deserving 

 it more and more. 



I have the honour to be, dear Sir, 



Very sincerely yours, 



(Signed) EiiG. Penard. 



The Secretary also read a description of a "New Silent Shaking 

 Apparatus (electrical)," invented by Mr. Frederick R. Chopping, who 

 had named it "The Westminster Shaker." 



The apparatus, which was on exhibition, was set in motion for the 

 purpose of demonstrating to Members present the silent working claimed 

 for it by the inventor. 



A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Chopping for having brought 

 his apparatus to the notice of the Microscopical Society. 



