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8-inch lens, and by the same rule got |. So this lens, which used 

 to magnify, now diminishes and shows you things one-fourth their 

 natural size. Lastly, I took a 10-inch, and the power came out 0. 

 So this lens not only diminishes things, but diminishes them quite 

 out of existence, and what you get is — total darkness. 



Would some of the people about your Magazine tell me how these 

 things can be, and whether this is the Optics that has been played in ? 

 There is no one here I can ask about it except our parson, and he 

 " gives it up." 



Yours in perplexity, 



Eusticus. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Eoyal Microscopical Society — Annual Meeting. 



King's College, February 5, 1873. 



Win. Kitchen Parker, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Secretary intimated that in conformity with their usual custom 

 upon the election of a new President, the list of Fellows would be 

 revised, and requested that any alterations or corrections to be made 

 might be notified to Mr. Walter W. Peeves, the Assistant-Secretary, 

 as early as possible. 



A list of donations to the Society was read, and the thanks of the 

 meeting were voted to the respective donors. 



The Secretary called attention to two slides which had been sent 

 to the Society by Mr. Alfred Allen, of Felstead, one of which was 

 exhibited in the room by Mr. Peeves. The slides were of some 

 crystals obtained from a liquid which condensed from the vapour of 

 coke burnt in a stove, and which was found to drop from the joints of 

 the sheet-iron stove-pipe. 



The Secretary said that it would be remembered that at the last 

 meeting, in reading the list of gentlemen nominated as officers of the 

 Society, he had mentioned that for the reason then stated the nomina- 

 tion of Mr. Hogg as one of the Hon. Secretaries must be considered as 

 provisional, and that in view of the possibility of that gentleman 

 resigning his position, he had been directed to propose the name of 

 Mr. Chas. Stewart as Secretary, and that of Mr. B. T. Lowne as a 

 member of the Council. After that meeting, however, Mr. Hogg 

 addressed a letter to the President of the Council, in which he resigned 

 the office of Secretary on the ground that having been appointed 

 President of the Medical Microscopical Society, his leisure time would 

 be too much occupied to enable him to fulfil both duties. The Council 

 had therefore, in conformity with the by-laws, appointed Mr. Chas. 

 Stewart to replace Mr. Hogg, and it remained now for the Fellows to 

 elect him if they chose for the ensuing year. It was the circumstance 



