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 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting of 14th April, 1880, at King's College, Strand, W.C. 

 The President (Dr. Beale, F.R.S.) in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 10th March last were read auil 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges) received since the 

 last meeting was submitted, and the thav'ks of the Society given to the 

 donors. 



From 

 Ormerod, Miss E. A. — Notes of Observations of Injurious 



Insects. 44 pp., 28 figs. (Svo. London, 1880) . . . . The Author. 

 Traill, G. W.— The Algte of the Firth of Forth. 20 pp. 



(8vo. Ediuburgb, 1880) Ditto. 



79 numbers of the ' Monthly Microscopical Journal,' 13 of ) Executors of the late 



the Society's 'Journal,' and G7 of ' Science-Godsip ' .. .1 31. C. Hardy, Esq. 

 Smith, Sir J. E. and J. Sowerby. — English Botany. (1st 



edition.) 41 vols., including Index vol. and 4 vols. 



Supplement. (Svo. Loudon, 1790-1814, 1831-49) .. Mr. Crisp. 



The President said that they must feel greatly indebted to Mr. Crisp 

 for the very valuable further donation which he had just made 

 to the Library — that of ' Sowerby's Botany.' Though during the 

 interval which had elapsed since the first publication of the work 

 very much had been added to the general knowledge of the plants, he 

 was afraid that the progress made in the art of illustration had not 

 been at all in proportion. 



The President said the next duty he had to perform was not so 

 pleasant a one, as it was to announce that they had since their last 

 meeting received notice of the death of two Fellows of the Society. 

 Professor Bell, formerly a President of the Society, and one who 

 had so largely advanced our knowledge of the British fauna, had 

 died, full of years and honours, at the age of 87. The other 

 death was that of a gentleman who, though not so long associated 

 with them, was but a few meetings ago present in that room — Dr. 

 Fripp, a President of the Bristol Naturalists' Society — who had done 

 much to render accessible to English microscopists the views of 

 German writers. He proj)Osed a vote of condolence to the nearest 

 relatives of the deceased gentlemen, which was carried unanimously. 



Mr. Crisp described by means of drawings on the black-board the 

 Spencer-Tolles Camera Lucida (see p. 527), and also exhibited Spengel's 

 Improved Eivet-Leiser Microtome (see j). 331). 



Dr. Matthews referred to the use of objectives in place of eye- 

 pieces, in regard to which he had recently been experimenting. An 



