PEOCTEEDINGS FOE 1891. XLIX 



The following officers were elected ; 



Prof. McGregor, President. 



M. Murphy, C.E., D.C.L., and J. Somers, M.D., Vice-Presidents. 



W. C. Silver, Treasurer. 



A. H. McKay, Coi-responding Secretary. 



A. M. McKay, Eecording Secretary. 



Maynard Bowman, Librarian. 



XII. — From The Montreal Microscopical Society, through Dr. Girdwood. 



The society was originally started by a few microscopists in Montreal about the year 1868 as the 

 Microscopical C'lub, with the object of promoting microscopical knowledge among its members for 

 practical microscopical woi-k and the interchange of ideas and experiences on microscopical subjects, 

 the meetings being held at the houses of the members, with a limit of numbers to fifteen. For some 

 years the club continued working on these lines, but it has been obliged to enlarge its sphere of use- 

 fulness by increasing its numbers, with the increase of the pojîulation of the city and the increased 

 number of those interested in the pursuits of the society. We are happy to be able to inform the 

 Eoyal Society that we now have a membership of fifty-five active members, among whom we have 

 the honour of having the name of his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Stanley of Preston, 

 enrolled as an honorary member, Sir Wm. Dawson, the Hon. Senator Murphy and numerous scientific 

 gentlemen. Our meetings are now held in the rooms of the Natural History Society. During the 

 past year we had a number of interesting papers read, evoking interesting discussion. A list of these 

 papers is appended, and a list of the officers of the society. 



The following meetings of the society were held in 1890-91 : 



1. Oct. 13 — Annual meeting for the election of officers. 



J. Stevenson Brown, President (re-elected). 



Hon. Senator Murphy, Vice-President (re-elected). 



Leslie J. Skelton, Hon. Secretary-Treasurer. 



2. Nov. 10 — Illumination as applied to the Microscope, by J. Stevenson Brown. 



3. Dec. 8 — Facts connected with keeping an Aquarium, by the Very Eev. Dean Carmichael. 



4. Jan. 12 — Practical Hints on Microtomes, by Dr. Wyatt G. Johnson. 



5. Feb. 9 — Histology of the Eye of the Owl and Compound Eye of the Lobster, by J. W. Stirling, 



M.D. Edin. 



6. March 9 — The Microscope and Bacteriology, by Dr. J. A. Beaudry. 



T. April 13 — The Polariscope as applied in the Separation of Starches, by G. P. Gii-dwood, M.D., 



M.E.C.S. Eng. 

 8. May 12 — Bacteria in Montreal Drinking Water, by Dr. Wyatt G. Johnson. 



With the meeting of May 12th this session closed, and it is a significant fact that the last meet- 

 ing was the largest in the history of the society. 



Within the last year the membership has more than doubled. There is an active membership of 

 fifty-five, and the rule requiring candidates to be possessors of achromatic microscopes no doubt limits 

 the membership. 



Proc. 1891. G. 



