THE 



ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 



(Pounded in 1839. Incorporated by Eoyal Oharter in 1866.) 



The Society was established for the communication and discussion 

 of observations and discoveries (1) tending to improvements in the construc- 

 tion and in the mode of application of the Microscope, or (2) relating to 

 Biology or the other subjects of Microscopical Research. 



It consists of Fellows, and Ex-officio, Honorary, and Corresponding 

 Fellows. 



The Council is elected annually, and is composed of the President, 

 four Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, two Secretaries, and twelve other Fellows. 



Candidates for Fellowship must be proposed by three Fellows, who 

 must sign a Certificate of Recommendation stating the names, residence, 

 description, &c., of the Candidate, of whom one of the proposers must have 

 personal knowledge. This Certificate is read at the next Monthly Meeting, 

 and the Candidate is balloted for at the succeeding Meeting. 



The Annual Subscription is 2?. 2«., payable in advance on 

 election, and subsequently on 1st January annually, with an Entrance Fee 

 of 21. 28. Future payments of the former may be compounded for at any 

 time by a payment of 'ell. 10s. Fellows elected in October, November, or 

 December will not be called upon for a subscription during the succeeding 

 year, and Fellows absent from the United Kingdom for a year, or perma- 

 nently residing abroad, are exempt from one-half the subscription during 

 absence, 



Ex-o£B.cio Fellows consist of the Presidents for the time being of 

 such Societies at home or abroad as the Council may recommend and a 

 Monthly Meeting approve. They are entitled to receive the Society's 

 Publications, and to exercise all other privileges of Fellows, except voting, 

 but are not required to pay any Entrance Fee or Annual Subscription. 



The Meetings commence on the second Wednesday in October, and 

 are continued on the second Wednesday in each month until June. They 

 are held in the Society's Library at King's College, Strand, W.C., and 

 commence at 8 p.m. Visitors are admitted by the introduction of Fellows. 



In each Session two additional evenings ("Scientific Evenings") are 

 devoted to the exhibition of Apparatus and Objects of novelty or interest 

 relating to the Microscope or the subjects of Microscopical Research. 



The Journal, containing the Transactions and Proceedings of the 

 Society, with other Microscopical and Biological Information, is published 

 bi-monthly, and is forwarded gratis to all Fellows. 



The Library, with the Instruments, Apparatus, and Cabinet of 



Objects, is open for the use of Fellows on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 



and Fridays, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. 



It is closed during August. 



Forms of proposal for Fellowship, and any further information, may be obtained by 

 application to the Secretaries, or Assistant-Secretary, at the Library of the Society, King's 

 College, Strand, W.C. 



