JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY 



DECEMBER. 1920. 



A 



SYMPOSIUM AND GENERAL DISCUSSION 



ON 



THE MICROSCOPE: 



Its Design, Construction, and 

 Applications. 



The Faraday Society, the Eoyal Microscopical 

 Society, the Optical Society, and the Photomicro- 

 GRAPHIC Society in co-operation with the Technical Optics^ 

 Committee of the British Science Guild, meeting in 

 joint session, held a Symposium and General Discussion 

 on " The Microscope : Its Design, Construction and 

 Applications," on Wednesday, January 14th, 1920, in the 

 Eooms of the Royal Society at Burlington House» 

 Piccadilly, London, by kind permission of the President 

 and Council. 



The purpose of the Symposium and Discussion, which was 

 organised by a Joint Committee of the Co-operating Societies, at the 

 initiative of Sir Robert Hadfield, Bart., was: — 



(1) To stimulate the study of and research in microscopical sci- 

 ence in the United Kingdom by indicating lines of progress 

 in the mechanical and optical design of the instrument^ 

 showing by means of exhibits recent improvements in the 



