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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Council. 



Charles Brooke, M.A., F.E.S. 

 H. C. Bastian, M.A., M.D., &c. 

 W. A. Guy, M.B., r.E.S. 

 James Hilton, Esq. 

 W. H. Ince, F.L.S. 

 Henry Lee, T.L.S. & G.S. 



Ellis G. Lobb, Esq. 

 Eichard Mestayer, Esq. 

 John Millar, Esq., F.L.S. 

 Major S. E. I. Owen, F.L.S. 

 Thomas Sopwith, M.A., F.E.S. 

 F. H. Wenham, Esq., C.E. 



The Auditors presented the Treasurer's Eeport for the past 

 year. (See 'Trans.,' p. 59.) 



The Cabinet and Library Committees duly presented their 

 Eeports, which were read and ordered to be entered on the 

 Minutes. (See ' Trans.,' p. 55.) 



The Peesident then delivered his Annual Address, which he 

 was requested to print for distribution among the Fellows. 



March lltTi, 1868. 

 J. B. Eeade, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 The following presents and purchases were announced : 



A Photographic Portrait of Prof. Bell, F.R.S., framed and 



glazed 

 Journal of Society of Arts 

 Land and Water (weekly) 

 Journal of Dental Science 

 Journal of Linnean Society 

 Pliotographic Journal 

 The Student, No. 2 . 

 Formation of so-called Cells in Animal Bodies. Ed 



Montgomery 

 American Patent Office Reports, 4 vols., 1863-4 



Presented by 



T. Bell, Esq. 



The Societv. 



The Editor. 



Ditto. 



The Society. 



The Editor. 



The Publisher. 



Dr. Murie. 



Commissioners of 

 Patents, U. S. 

 Thomas White, Esq. 

 . Ditto. 

 . Purchased. 



Quekett's Histology, vol. 1. 



Five Slides of Hippuric Acid 



Tiie Annals of Natural History. 



A Monograph of British Entomostraca, by Norman and 



Brady ..... Ditto. 



Johnston's History of British Zoophytes. 2nd edition . Ditto. 



Darwin's Origin ot Species. 4th edition . . Ditto. 



The Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestica- 

 tion, Darwin .... Ditto. 



The presents to the Society included a series of nine slides, with 

 models of the jaws and rotatory apparatus of a Eotifer, from the 

 Eev. Lord S. G. Osborne ; a very valuable and complete series of 

 preparations of bones and teeth, numbering 424 slides, from Mr. 

 Joseph Beck, to whom a special vote of thanks was moved, and 

 carried by acclamation ; a first-class binocular microscope with 

 glass shade had been purchased of Mr. Baker, of Holborn, who 

 had agreed to supply it at a price which made it partially a present. 



