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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 

 QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the 527th Ordinary Meeting of the Club, held on October 23rd, 

 1917, the President, Dr. A. B. Rendle, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., in 

 the chair, the minutes of the meeting held on June 26th were 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. Alfred W. Alabaster was balloted for and duly elected a 

 member of the Club. Nomination forms for six others were read 

 for the first time. 



The President informed thos§ present that the committee had 

 decided, until further notice, to hold the Ordinary Meetings on 

 the second Tuesday in each month instead of on the fourth, the 

 " Gossip" Meetings being held on the fourth Tuesday. 



Dr. G. H. Rodman, F.R.P.S., then gave a lantern demonstration 

 of photomicrographs. In a short introductory address he said 

 he considered it a great compliment to be asked to give his demon- 

 stration and to address the opening meeting of the fifty-third 

 session of the Quekett Microscopical Club. He was more accus- 

 tomed to address photographic societies than practical micro- 

 scopists of such repute as the Quekett Club contained. He 

 wished to bring forward a plea for recording by photography the 

 magnified images of objects as observed on the microscope stage. 

 The photographic plate reveals a great deal, and if given the 

 opportunity will render a satisfactory picture, as well as record 

 truthfully what is made evident by the microscope. The photo- 

 graphic camera has a keener eye than a human being. He had 

 sometimes found whilst developing a plate that a spot appeared 

 which gave him considerable anxiety, but when the process was , 

 completed it turned out to be a true record of some detail which 

 had been and might have been easily overlooked by anyone 

 using the microscope only in the ordinary way. As an illustra- 

 tion of the greater sensitiveness of the photographic plate as 



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