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the Society are highly valuable as records of patient research and 
investigation, and I feel that we, who have laboured much in years 
past in bringing the microscope to its present efficient condition, 
are amply repaid by the gratification we experience in seeing the 
instrument used to such good purpose by the young and ardent 
philosophers who now carry forward the fame of our favorite 
science. As to our instruments themselves, our microscopes have 
obtained a leading position in Europe, and I sincerely trust that 
there will continue to arise among us members who will ever 
maintain the high character of our countrymen as microscopic 
observers.” 
On Dr. Bowerbank resuming his seat, the Chairman rose and 
said—I take this opportunity of offering you the best thanks of 
the Society for your valuable work presented to the Library, ‘ On 
the British Spongiade ;’ and on its being pointed out that the 
volume presented was one of twenty copies only which contained 
portraits of the author, Dr. Bowerbank remarked that the photo- 
graph represented him with a microscope on the table by his side, 
and it might be interesting to the members to know that the in- 
strument there shown was the first one to which the ploughed 
sliding apparatus was attached; the lever stage was also the first 
one made, This microscope had been in constant use during the 
last twenty-five or thirty years, and it was still in good condition; 
the lever stage was just as easy and smooth, and as fine in its 
adjustment as it had ever been. 
Mr. Roserr Tuomas read a paper, “ On the Crystallization of 
the Sulphates of Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel.’ (See ‘ Trans.,’ p. 19.) 
The CHarRMaN, on announcing that the Anniversary Meeting of 
the Society would be held on the 13th of February, again called 
attention to the desirability of securing the autographs of every 
Fellow of the Society in the book which had been provided for 
the purpose, 
March 13th, 1867. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
A paper “On Gregariniform Parasites of Borlasia,’ by Dr. 
McIntosh, was read. (See ‘ Trans.,’ p. 38.) 
Mr. Jabez Hoae, F.L.S., said the general distribution of these 
Gregariniform bodies seems in the present day to have led toa 
general but erroneous opinion with regard to their being found in 
hair; and this circumstance will, perhaps, afford an opportunity 
for now saying a few words on the subject. Mr. Ray Lankester 
has enlightened us with some excellent papers on Gregarine, which 
may be found in the Society’s ‘Transactions.’ They seem, as Dr. 
McIntosh has stated, to be discovered in salt-water animals, and 
I have myself found them in many fishes. In short, they appear 
to be a part of the sarcode covering of the muscular tissues 
