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PROCEEDIXCS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 19th February, 1913, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 



Professor G. Sims AVoodhead, M.D., etc.. President, 



IN the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of January 15, 1913, were read and 

 conhrmed, and were signed by the President. 



The President said he thanked the Fellows of the Royal Micro- 

 scopical Society very heartily for committing such an honourable charge 

 as their Chairmanship to one whose experience of the working of the 

 Society was comparatively so limited. He assured them that he esteemed 

 it a very high honour indeed to succeed to a Chair occupied by a line 

 of such distinguished men as were their past Presidents. He*^ feared 

 that he might often fall short of their expectations, but if a desire to 

 serve the Society could avail anything, there would be no failure that 

 would be irreparal)le. 



Before proceeding with the ];)usiness of the evening, he wished to 

 be authorized by the Fellows of the Society to send a message of con- 

 dolence to the widow and relatives of the late Captain Scott, and of 

 those brave men who perished with him, who, as all knew, were keenly 

 interested in the work on which their Society was engaged, and part of 

 whose mission to the South Pole was to collect material and observa- 

 tions which, in due course, would come under the notice of their Society. 

 Captain Scott and his fellows were brave men, who did their duty, and 

 the Council believed it would l)e the general wish to have recorded in 

 the Minutes of the Society a recognition of the great loss science had 

 sustained in the death of those gallant gentlemen, and an expression of 

 keen sympathy with those who now mourn their loss. He felt assured 

 of the permission of the Fellows of the Society to send this resolution 

 to the Royal Geographical Society, with the request that it should be 

 forwarded to Mrs. Scott and to others interested. 



Such authority was unanimously voted by Fellows of the Society. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) re- 

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

 the Society were accorded to the donors : — 



Presented by 



An old Microscope, by Cauchoix, of Paris Mr. Wynne E. Baxter. 



Brackets, etc., to order for show-case Mr. Chas. Lees Curties. 



