214 PK0CEEDING8 OF THE SOCIETY. 



Dr. Lionel S. Beale, M.B., F.R.S., was then called upon by Mr. 

 Brooke to take the chair as President of the Society, and in doing so 

 was received with loud and long-continued cheering. He said that 

 he felt deeply indebted to the Society for the honour which they had 

 done him in electing him their President, and for the warmth with 

 which he had been received. It would be his duty as well as his 

 pleasure to come amongst them as often as possible, and as he had 

 for some years paid comparatively little attention to the Microscope, 

 he expected to learn a great deal by attending the meetings. 



Mr. Stephenson said he had received from Professor Abbe some 

 photographs of Amphipleura pellucida and Pleurosigma angulatum, 

 which had been sent to him by Dr. Woodward, together with a letter 

 containing Dr. Woodward's oj)inion of the oil-immersion objectives 

 (part of the letter was read, see p. 140, and the photogi-aphs were 

 handed round). 



A Letter was read from Mr. Badcock, in which he pointed out that 

 in the report of the meeting of 11th December last, he was made to say, 

 in reference to (Ecistcs umhella, " at which time he showed it to Mr. 

 Oxley." What he said was that he had had a sketch made of it at 

 the time, which he had recently shown to Mr. Oxley. 



Mr. Crisp said that a grave charge had been made against him, 

 which really belonged to the Society, and he would therefore take this 

 opportunity of transferring it to the right shoulders. It was said 

 that when a large and complicated form of Microscope was made, it 

 was invariably brought to the Society and exhibited, but that they 

 never exhibited any of the smaller and cheaper forms from time to 

 time produced — that out of 1000 microscopists, however, 999 used the 

 latter instruments, and only the one man in the 1000 the former, so 

 that they failed somewhat in their duty in not giving at least equal 

 encouragement to what it was contended was the more useful instru- 

 ment in the strict sense of the term. He must say (speaking entirely 

 for himself) that he thought this suggestion was not without force, 

 and by way of doing penance for his own shortcomings he had 

 brought, and begged to present to the Society, three of the recent 

 smaller instruments — the " Model " of Messrs. Baker, the " Binocular 

 Economic " of Messrs. Beck, and the " Alpha " School Microscope of 

 Mr. Crouch. 



Mr. Stephenson said that if Mr. Crisj) was not tired of receiving 

 the thanks of the Society he should like to move a vote of thanks to 

 him for his valuable presents. 



Dr. Braithwaite having seconded the motion, it was put to the 

 meeting and carried unanimously. 



