286 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, 
Somerset House; Latimer Clark, Esq., Sydenham Hill; Henry 
Holmes Dobson, Esq., 19, Brompton Square; Daniel Hanbury, 
Esq., Plough Court, Lombard Street; Wi. Hartree, Esq., Lewis- 
ham Road, Greenwich; Geo. Augustus Ibbetson, Esq., 30, Caven- 
dish Square; Jos. Ince, Esq., 26, St. George’s Place, Hyde Park 
Corner; Jno. Jeffryes Oakley, Esq., 182, Piccadilly ; Sir Geo. 
Rendlesham Prescott, Bart., Windsor Cavalry Barrack; Jas. 
Robey, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne; Wm. Hy. Spencer, Esq., Mer- 
ton House, Belsize Park ; Charles Stewart, Esq.,86, Kennington 
Park Road; Rey. Douglas C. Timins, Hatfield Park, Watford ; 
Jno. Hopkins Walters, Esq., Kingston-on-Thames ; Robt. Owen 
White, Esq., The Priory, Lewisham. 
At the next meeting of the Society, announced for October 
9th, a paper will be read by Dr. Guy “On the Sublimation of 
the Alkaloids.” 
Although the Council would in the ordinary course of 
things have enjoyed, as they deserved, the repose of a recess, 
we find that has not been the case during the interval which has 
occurred since the last meeting. The President and Secretaries 
have been most indefatigable in their determination to secure 
better accommodation for the Society, and they have been so 
fortunate as to obtain, through the courtesy of the authorities of 
King’s College, an excellent apartment, which will henceforth 
constitute the Library, Reading, and Microscopical Room of the 
Society, and will be open for the use of the Fellows daily. An 
Assistant Secretary is in attendance, and gives a certain portion 
of each day from 11 to 4, as well as certain evenings, to the work 
of the Society, so that we may say the requirements of the 
microscopist will for the future be combined in some respects 
with the comforts and conveniences of a club-room. The Secre- 
taries have most laboriously occupied themselves in the work of 
improvement. The fittings are neat and convenient. The Library 
presents an entirely altered and renovated appearance, and many 
valuable additions have been made to it, rendering it more worthy 
of a learned body holding the position of the Royal Microscopical 
Society. Mr. Peters’s valuable present to the Society, the 
“ writing machine,” can be not only seen but used by any Fellow 
who will give himself the time and trouble to master its difficul- 
ties ; the microscopes now bid fair to be made useful; indeed, 
the member would be very fastidious who cannot thoroughly 
appreciate or feel satisfied with the earnest endeavours of all con- 
cerned in the work of improvement since they last met at King’s 
College. 
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