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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Royat Microscorican Society. 
Kine’s CoLiece, May 2, 1877. 
H. C. Sorby, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
A list of donations to the Society was read by the Secretary, and 
the thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 
The Secretary read the following letter, which had been received 
from C. J. Lambert, Esq. 
3, QurEN SrreeT Puace, Upper Tuames STReet, 
Lonpon, April 24, 1877. 
Sir,—My father, by his will, left a sum of 25,0001, which he 
requested me to distribute among persons in his employ, and in gifts 
to scientific societies, in such manner as I should think fit. 
I have the pleasure to inform you that I propose appropriating 
to you, out of the legacy, a sum of 500/., and I enclose a legacy receipt, 
which I will thank you to sign and return to me, and I will then 
forward you a cheque for the amount. 
I remain, yours, &e., 
The Royal Microscopical Society, C. J. Lampert. 
King’s College, Strand, W.C. 
P.S.—I have been induced to appropriate this sum to your society 
at the suggestion of one of your Fellows, Mr. John Badcock. 
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He also stated that the money had been received by their Treasurer, 
and would be invested with the other property of the Society. He 
had only further to propose a special vote of thanks to Mr. Lambert 
for his munificent donation, and all would agree that their thanks 
were also due to Mr. Badcock for his very useful intervention. 
Votes of thanks were then put to the meeting, and carried by 
acclamation. 
The President said, that before proceeding to that for which they 
were more particularly assembled, it would be well for him to say a 
few words as to the origin of the series of lectures which they were 
about to inaugurate. It was something like two years ago that the 
Council of the Society resolved to institute a lecture, to be called 
the Quekett lecture, in honour of the late Professor John Quekett, 
and to be delivered from time to time by eminent microscopists; 
and it was thought that in memory of these occasions it would be 
“well to present to the lecturer the Quekett medal of the Society, for 
which dies had been some time ago prepared, but which had not 
hitherto been utilized. Various circumstances had intervened to pre- 
vent this arrangement from being carried out; but at length they 
were met together to hear the first Quekett lecture, which was to be 
