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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



gators of the Diatomaceee ; to this special subject he almost exclusively 

 devoted his attention, and wrote a paper on collecting, cleaning, and 

 preparing Diatoms, which appeared, in 1863, in the thii'd volume of 

 the ' Microscopical Journal,' New Series. 



Mr. Eichard Morris, M.S.C.E., was elected in March, 1851, and 

 died in January, 1874, aged sixty-five. He was engineer of the Kent 

 Waterworks Company, and at one period of his life took a great 

 interest in the meetings of the Society. His end was a melancholy 

 one ; it appears, from the evidence on the coroner's inquest, that he 

 must have dropped dead from serous apojilcxy on his way home on 

 foot from the works. 



Mr. Charles Palmer Gibson, of Hull, was elected only in February, 

 1872, and died in June, 1873, at the early age of thirty-two. 



John Ware Stephenson in Account with the Eoyal 

 D): Microscopical Society. Cr. 



1873. £ s. d. 

 To Balance brought from 



3l8t Dec. 1872 .. .. 136 10 

 „ Half-year's Dividend on 



1082/. Os. lid. Consols 15 19 3 



Ditto on ditto .. .. IG 7 



Commuted Hubscription 18 18 



Annual Subscriptions, &c. 440 3 



Screw-touls sold . . . . 7 



Journals sold 3 



£G27 11 8 



1873. £ s. (/. 



By Cash paid for Journal . . 239 11 6 

 „ Rent and Attendance at 



King's College .. .. 57 19 3 



„ Eeporter 9 9 



„ Mr. Keeves' Salary . . 85 5 



„ Ditto for Commission .. 11 10 



„ Ray Society for 1873 .. 110 



„ Firo Insurance .. .. 14 



„ Stationery and Printing 33 14 2 



„ Petty Cash 42 



„ Balance remaining 31st 



Dec. 1873 145 17 9 



£027 11 8 



Jan. 28, 1874. 



Examined and found correct, 



W. T. SUFFOLK. 

 E. W. JONES. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet since Jan. 7, 1874 : — 



From 



Nature. Weekly The Editor. 



Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Quekett Journal, No. 25 Ditto. 



Annual Report, &c.. of the Brighton and Sussex Natural 



History Society, 1873 Ditto. 



Microscopic Examination of Air. By Dr. Douglas Cunningham Author. 



One Slide Capt. John Perry. 



John Shalders Crisj), Esq., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Walter W. . Eebves, 



Assistant Secretary. 



