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Friday in May, but that arrangements were made for liolding a 

 special exhibition meeting on that date at the Freemasons' Hall 

 as on a former occasion. He hoped that every member would do 

 his best to make that meeting a success. 



Excursions, etc., for the ensuing month were announced, and 

 the meeting closed with the usual conversazione. 



^ From the Society. 



May 18th, 1894. — Ordinary Meeting. 



Albert D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S., etc., Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 members of the Club : — Mr. J. H. Evans, Mr. W. Sutton, and Mr. 

 L. Miles. 



The following additions to the Library were announced : — 

 " Journal of the Royal Microscopical 



Society" ... 

 " Transactions of the Scientific Society of 



Chili-' 



" Transactions of the Canadian Institute " ... ,, Institute, 



"Annals and Bulletin of the Belgian Micro- ") . 



scopical Society " ... ... ... } " 



" The Botanical Gazette " „ Editor. 



Mr. C. L. Curties exhibited a new apparatus for obtaining instan- 

 taneous photographs of objects under the microscope, and described 

 the methods of using it. Some excellent photographs of Lophopus, 

 and also of blood globules taken with it, were handed round for 

 inspection. He also exhibited and described a new form of 

 microscope made for photographic purposes at the suggestion of 

 Mr. Hartney Turner, of Manchester. 



The Chairman said that instantaneous photography of living 

 objects under the microscope was a new departure, and was one 

 likely to be very useful, especially if it was found possible to 

 develop it in the direction of taking a series of pictures of rapidly- 

 moving creatures, on the same principle as had been carried out in 

 the cases of the running horse and the flying bird. The specimens 

 shown by Mr. Curties were extremely good and sharp, and the idea 



