xlii. Proceedings. 
The PRESIDENT, in moving the adoption of the report, con- 
gratulated the Club upon the past year, which he said had been 
a year of uninterrupted progress and success. The proceed- 
ings at the ordinary meetings had not in any way declined in 
interest during the year, and the attendance at those meetings 
had been, if anything, larger than in previous years. As the 
report pointed out, this was the tenth annual meeting of the club, 
and on the 6th April the Club would complete the tenth year of 
its existence. With regard to the honorary members who had 
been elected during the year, he thought the fact that they had 
accepted the honorary membership of the Club was a great 
compliment, and the same might be said of the fact that the 
Royal Microscopical Society had elected the President of the 
Club for the time being an ex-officio Fellow of that society. 
With regard to the papers, those read during the past year 
were certainly as good and as interesting as they had ever had. 
Some of the meetings had been unusually fully attended, and 
twice at least the room had been so full that members had not 
all been able to find seats. With regard to the soiree, he 
thought that also marked the progress of the Club. Notwith- 
standing the unfavourable weather, more members and visitors 
were present than had ever attended on a similar occasion, 
and the number of microscopes and the objects exhibited 
were quite as interesting and important as at any previous 
soiree. The conversational meetings were started in accor- 
dance with the suggestion of some of the members, and purely 
as an experiment. It was thought that if the Club had inter- 
mediate meetings between the ordinary meetings some good 
results might be obtained, but the attendance had been so 
meagre that the committee did not see their way to recom- 
mending the continuance of those meetings. With regard to 
this subject, however, he should tell the members that one or 
two suggestions had been made whereby it was hoped that the 
conversational meetings could be made more attractive and 
useful to members, and perhaps before any formal resolution 
was come to to discontinue the meetings, it would be desirable 
to see what Dr. Carpenter’s proposal was as to providing per- 
manent quarters for the Club, because if the Club ever had 
proper quarters it would not be necessary to have these con- 
versational meetings at all. They would then have rooms 
which every member could come to in the evening, and which 
would be very considerably used. In concluding, the Presi- 
dent repeated the thanks of the committee to the Local Press, 
and moved that the report and balance-sheet be received and 
adopted, and that they be printed and circulated amongst the 
members. 
