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The Secretary said that, in consequence of this addition to their 

 rules, a verbal alteration would become necessary in clause 12 (which 

 explained the position of Honorary Fellows) in order to make it suit 

 with the new rule — 



To clause 12 after Honorary add " and Corresponding." 



The clause having been altered as proposed, was put to the meeting 

 and confirmed. 



The President then delivered the Annual Address, which will be 

 found printed at j). 89. 



It was moved by Dr. Braithwaite, and seconded by Mr. Wenham, 

 " that the cordial thanks of the Society be presented to the President 

 for his Address, and that it should be printed and circulated in the 

 usual way. 



Mr. Slack then put the motion to the meeting, and it was carried 

 unanimously by acclamation. 



The President having expressed his acknowledgment of the vote 

 of thanks, and there being no response to his inquiry for suggestions 

 from any Fellow present as to the working of the Society, the meeting 

 was adjourned to March dth. 



List of Officers and Council op the Eoyal Microscopical 

 Society, Elected February 4th, 1874. 



President— C\\ii\:\G& Brooke, M.A., F.E.S. 



Vice-Presidents. — Eobert Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S. ; John Millar, 

 L.E.C.P., F.L.S. ; William Kitchen Parker, F.E.S. ; Francis H. 

 Wenham, C.E. 



Treasurer. — John Ware Stephenson, F.E.A.S. 



Secretaries.— Renvy J. Slack, F.G.S, ; Charles Stewart, M.E.C.S., 

 F.L.S. 



Council. — James Bell, F.C.S. ; Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A. ; William 

 J. Gray, M.D. ; John E. Ingpen, Esq. ; Samuel J. Mclntire, Esq. ; 

 Henry Lee, F.L.S. ; William T. Loy, Esq. ; Henry Lawson, M.D. ; 

 Henry Perigal, F.E.A.S. ; Alfred Sanders, M.E.C.S. ; Charles Tyler, 

 F.L.S. ; Thomas C. White, M.E.C.S. 



Annual Report of the Eoyal Microscopical Society. 



The Secretaries report that the Society's collection of books, 

 instruments, and objects are in good condition ; few purchases have 

 been made, but some valuable additions have been received, the most 

 important of which are a Smith and Beck Binocular Microscope, with 

 powers and apparatus, from Charles Woodward, Esq. ; 42 Type Slides 

 of North American Alga3, from Dr. Wood and Mrs. Quimby ; 3 Slides 

 of Diatoms, from Mr. Kitton ; and 4 from Captain John Perry. 



The Society has been well supplied witli papers of interest and 

 importance during the past year, extending over a considerable range 

 of topics. Dr. Urban Pritchard contributed a i)aper " On the Structure 

 and Functions of the Eods of the Cochlea." Mr. Kitchen Parker 

 brought under the Society's notice the Morphological Eesults arrived 

 at by studying the Development of the Face of the Sturgeon; and 



