224 Proceedings. 



^Microscopical and Natural History Section."] 



Annual Meeting, April 8th, 1889. 



Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice- 

 President of the Section, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the Thirty-first Annual Report of 

 the Council of the Section, and the Treasurer submitted the 

 annual balance sheet and statement of accounts. (See p. 267). 



On the motion of Mr. Charles Bailev, F'.L.S., seconded 

 by Mr. R. E. CUNLIFFE, the annual report and Treasurer's 

 accounts were approved. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers and mem- 

 bers of the Council of the Section for the ensuing session : — 



President: — J. CoSMO Melvill, M.A., F.L.S. 



Vice-Presidents: — Charles Bailey, F.L.S., Alex. 

 HoDGKiNSON, M.B., B.Sc, W. C. Williamson, LL.D., 

 F.R.S. 



Treasurer : — Mark Stirrup, F.G.S. 



Secretary : — John Boyd. 



Other Members of the Council: — William Blackburn, 

 F.R.M.S., P. Cameron, H. C. Chadwick, Robt. E. 

 CuNLiFFE, R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S., F. Nicholson, 

 F.Z.S., Thos. Rogers, Theodore Sington. 



Mr. A. A. MuMFORD, M.B. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., 

 was elected an associate of the section. 



Dr. Alex. Hodgkinson exhibited specimens of dis- 

 sections of eyes, showing that the cause of luminosity in 

 the dusk is due to the existence of a triangular patch of 

 flat colourless cells situated between the retina and the 

 pigmentary layer of the choroid. In the centre of the 



