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Dr. G. P. Bate, Mr. Edward G. Box, Mr, John J. Burgess, Mr. C. F. Burnham, 

 Mr. William E. Callaghan, Mr. Herbert Carrutliers, Mr. James Clayton, Mr. 

 William Cole, Mr. G. Green, Mr. Ernest Grey, Mr. George Hind, Mr. C. W. 

 Hovenden, Mr. W. W. Jones, Dr. Manly, Mr. Edgar A. Meates, Mr. G. A. 

 Messenger, Mr. Philip C. Nixon, Mr. Thomas Palmer, Mr. George A. C. Pearce, 

 Mr. William W. Eeid, Mr. Roland D. Smith, Mr. James Spencer, and Mr. 

 Ernest Wadmore. 



The Secretary reminded the members present that at the next ordinary meet- 

 ing nominations woiild have to be made of gentlemen to fill vacancies upon the 

 Committee. Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year must also then be nominated, 

 and notice must be given of any alterations proposed either in the rules or 

 other matters affecting the government of the Club. 



The President announced that he had just received an intimation of the 

 death of Mr. T. W. Burr, which had occurred suddenly that morning. Mr. 

 Burr was well known amongst them as one of their Vice-Presidents, and for 

 some years also as an active member of Committee, and the Club would no 

 doubt receive, with great regret, the announcement of his sudden removal. 



Dr. George Hoggan read a paper upon his machine for section-cutting, to 

 which reference was made at the March meeting of the Club, describing it first 

 as originally made, and then giving in detail the various improvements and 

 additions which experience, had led him to adopt. The methods of using it for 

 hard and soft substances were minutely described, and the original and per- 

 fected forms of the machine, as well as a large number of sections cut by it, 

 were exhibited to the meeting. 



The President, in proposing a very cordial vote of thanks to Dr. Hoggan for 

 his paper, expressed the pleasure with which he had listened to it, and thought 

 that the machine itself was one of the most perfect for the purpose that he had 

 ever seen. 

 A vote of thanks to Dr. Hoggan was carried by acclamation. 

 Mr. Miller said that, as on the last occasion when this subject was before 

 them, he had taken the liberty of saying a few words upon the subject, he 

 should like to make one or two further observations. He confessed that he could 

 not agree with Dr. Hoggan that complexity in a machine was not a disadvantage. 

 He rather agreed with Dr. Klein, that a steady hand and a sharp knife were the 

 best things to trust to in section cutting, and no one would deny that sections of 

 considerable size had been cut by Dr. Lockhart Clark and others, which were 

 perfect in themselves, and were yet cut entirely by hand. If anyone did want 

 a machine, he thought the simpler it was the better, and no one would deny 

 that the tube machine was simple and efficient ; it was also cheap, and cheap- 

 ness in such things was to students a matter of very great moment. For cutting 

 perfectly fresh tissues there was nothing better than freezing, and this could 

 not be adopted with the new machine. As to the shape of the knife, he 

 thought one with a slanting edge was much better than one with a perfectly 

 straight edge. As to the material for floating the sections off the knife, he 

 thought that caustic soda was not able to be used in many cases, and if sub- 

 stances were kept in spirit he thought the fewer re-agents they used the better. 

 He wished to add his protest against the use of section-cutting machines ; for 

 genei'al purposes sections could be cut quickly and easily with the hand quite 

 well enough for all possible requirements of study, and he was of opinion that 

 for private purposes a section-cutting machine was quite as much of an incon- 

 venience as an advantage. 



