PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 1638 
Mr. Frank Crisp seconded the adoption of the Reports. 
The President having put the motion to the meeting, declared it 
to be carried unanimously. 
On the motion of Mr. J. W. Stephenson, seconded by Mr. Thomas 
Palmer, Mr. J. Spencer and Mr. T. C. White were appointed Scru- 
tineers, and the ballot for the election of Officers and Council for the 
ensuing year was proceeded with. At its conclusion the following 
gentlemen were declared to be unanimously elected : 
As President—My. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S. 
As Vice-Presidents—Dr. Lionel S. Beale, Sir John Lubbock, Rev. 
W. H. Dallinger, and Mr. Hugh Powell. 
As Treasurer—Mr. J. W. Stephenson. 
As Hon. Secretaries—Mr. H. J. Slack and Mr. Charles Stewart. 
As Council—Messrs. W. A. Bevington, Dr. Braithwaite, Charles 
Brooke, Frank Crisp, J. E. Ingpen, E. W. Jones, W. T. Loy, Dr. 
Henry Lawson, 8. J. McIntire, Dr. Millar, Thomas Palmer, and 
F. H. Ward. 
The President, rising to deliver the Annual Address, took the 
opportunity of thanking the Fellows for the honour which they had 
conferred upon him by again electing him President of the Society, 
especially as his election on that occasion required a suspension of the 
bye-laws to enable it to take place. He hoped to be able properly to 
fulfil the duties of the office, and that he should be able to do, during 
the next year, even more than he had done in the previous one. After 
reference to those Fellows of the Society deceased during the past 
year, the President gave a résumé of his Address, upon the investi 
gations which he had recently made into the nature and components 
of the loose materials forming the sands and clays, as well as some 
sandstones and stratified rocks of Great Britain. The subject was 
illustrated by drawings upon the board. (‘The Address will be found 
printed in extenso at p. 1138.) 
Mr. Charles Brooke rose to propose a vote of thanks to the Presi- 
dent for the very able Address to which they had just listened. He 
was sure they must all feel that a line of inquiry had been pointed 
out which was altogether new, and which was also one which must 
certainly lead to some very important results. He had much pleasure 
in asking that the Address might be printed and circulated in the 
usual way. 
The vote of thanks was then seconded by Dr. Millar, and, having 
been put to the meeting by the proposer, was carried by acclamation. 
The President expressed his thanks for the kind way in which the 
vote of thanks had been proposed and received. He did not see why 
a Microscopical Society should not deal with all subjects which the 
microscope could throw light upon. Some persons might perhaps 
look upon the subject which had occupied their attention that 
evening as one suited only for a Geological Society, but he begged 
to differ from that opinion, and to say that he thought the subject 
was one which came strictly within their province, and he believed 
that, not only in the field of geological research, but in others also, 
there was a great deal to be done by means of the microscope, and 
