PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester. 



microscopical section. 



Annual Meeting, \^th May, 1862. 



E. W. BiNNEY, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., in tlie Chair. 



Mr. David Joy, and Mr. John Leigh, M.R.C.S., were elected 

 members of the Section. 



The Secretary then read the 



Annual "Report, 1862. 



The Council of your Section in this, the fourth Annual Report, 

 have to congratulate its members upon its steady progress during 

 the past session ; ten new members have been elected, but two have 

 retired. The loss of Mr. W. C. Unwin, who has ceased to reside 

 in this city, is to be regretted, as he gave promise of active co-opera- 

 tion in the business of the Section. Your Council have also to con- 

 gratulate the members upon the work done since the last yearly 

 meeting, the most important and arduous of which was, undoubtedly, 

 the Microscopical Soiree, given to the members of the British Asso- 

 ciation at their last year's meeting in this city. The management 

 was entrusted to a sub-committee formed of members of this Section, 

 and it has been considered, even in London, to have been the best 

 exhibition of microscopes and microscopical objects hitherto at- 

 tempted. With every meed of praise to those to whom the manage- 

 ment was committed, the great success of the exhibition is due to 

 the liberality with which the owners of the microscopes placed their 

 apparatus and objects at the disposal of the sub-committee ; and it 

 is gratifying to state that the damage was most insignificant, only 

 two object slides having been broken ; not a single piece of appara- 

 tus belonging to 150 first and second class microscopes was known 

 to be lost or injured. 



The Section has held, during the Session, eight ordinary meet- 



