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FIFTY. FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



Liverpool Microscopical Society. 



January, 1924 



The Council of the Society begs to report that the past year 

 has been marked by a series of lectures of great interest and value 

 during the Winter Session, and by a gratifying increase in the 

 attendance at the Field Meetings, in spite of the fact that bad 

 weather marred several of the latter. 



At the beginning of the year we had a membership of 124, 

 viz : 115 ordinary, 4 honorary, and 5 corresponding members. 

 During the year under review 12 ordinary members have resigned, 

 2 ordinary members have been elected honorary members, and 17 

 new members have joined the Society. There are now 6 honorary, 

 5 corresponding, and 118 ordinary members, a total of 129. 



The honoKary members elected during the year are : Mr. 

 George F. Healey, who had been a member of the Society since 

 1896 ; and Mr. Thompson Muskett, who had acted as honorary 

 secretary of the Society from 1921 to 1923 inclusive, and as 

 assistant hon. S2cretary for some time prior to that. 



At the January meeting, Professor R. Newstead, F.R.S., 

 F.E.S., of the School of Tropical Medicine (University of Liverpool), 

 gave a lecture on the Tse-tse Fly considered in relation to sleeping 

 sickness. His remarks, based on personal observation and research, 

 and illustrated by many striking lantern slides, were followed with 

 the greatest interest. The subject of the lecture was demonstrated 

 under pumerous instruments. 



The feature of the Februarj^ meeting was an engrossing paper 

 by Professor W. J. Dakin, D.Sc, F.Z.S. (University of Liverpool) 

 on the visual organs cf invertebrates, with special reference to 

 insects' eyes. He imparted a great deal of out-of-the-way inform- 

 ation, and employed a large number of lantern slides, the beauty 

 of which excicd general admiration. 



In March, Mr. F. Davidson, of London, paid a return visit, 

 and gave a lecture on " The Davon Super-Microscope," explaining 

 the various refinements of this instrument effected since his previous 

 lecture to the Societv. 



