PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 217 



AN ORDINARY MEETING 



OF THE Society was held at No. 20 Hanovee Square, W,, on 

 Wednesday, April 20th, 1921, Mr. D. J. Scourfield in 

 the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read, confirmed, and 

 signed by the Chairman. 



The nomination papers were read of four Candidates for Fellowship. 



New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows of the 

 Society : — 



Mr. William R. Chappie. 



Mr. Archibald A. Davis. 



Mr. E. B. Miller-Williams, F.C.V A., etc. 



Mr. Albert Norman. 



Professor Gobind Singh Thapar, M.Sc. 



A paper by the Rev. J. S. Pratt on " Mr. Fred Enock's Method of 

 Mounting Heads of Insects without Pressure," was read by Mr. Scour- 

 field. 



Mr. F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S.. F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., read a paper 

 " On the Presence of two Spermathecte in the rare Mole Flea {Hystri- 

 chopsylla talpse), and the Flea as a Distributor of a Tyroglyphid." 



Mr. Henry Crowther, F.R.M.S., read a paper on " A Coal-dust 

 Explosion as seen through the Microscope." 



A paper by Captain Frank Oppenheimer, I. M.S., S.R., M.B., Ch.B., 

 F.R.M.S., on "Some Suggestions regarding the Mechanical Design of 

 Microscopes," was read. 



The best thanks of the meeting were accorded to the authors of the 

 foregoing papers. 



The Chairman announced that the Annual Pond-Life Exhibition 

 would be held on May 18 ; that the Biological Section would meet on 

 May 4, when Mr. H. G. Cannon would make a communication on 

 " Some Experiments on Inheritance in Simocephalus vetuhis " ; and that 

 the Metallurgical Section would meet on May 11, when Mr. George 

 Patchin would make a communication on " The Application of Micro- 

 scopy to the Metal Industry." 



The business proceedings then terminated. 



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