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delivered to them that evening by Sir John Lubbock, on whom he 
had great pleasure in calling. 
Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.RS., &c., who was received with 
hearty applause, having expressed his sense of the honour conferred 
on him by the Council in selecting him as the first Quekett lecturer, 
proceeded to deliver his lecture “On some points in the Anatomy of 
Ants.” The subject was well illustrated by a number of coloured 
diagrams enlarged from microscopic sections and preparations, and 
also by a series of beautifully executed drawings, which were placed 
upon the table. The lecture will be printed in a future number. 
The President was quite sure he should express the wish of every 
one present in proposing a hearty vote of thanks to Sir John Lubbock 
for his very interesting and instructive lecture. He had himself 
listened to it with very great pleasure, and had no doubt that it had 
been listened to with equal pleasure by all who were present. He 
therefore proposed that they should all join in a vote of thanks for the 
very able lecture which they had been privileged to hear. 
Mr. Charles Brooke said that he also had been very much inter- 
ested by the lecture, and greatly pleased with the very able manner 
in which the anatomical structure of so minute an animal had been 
described. He hoped that, as time went on, their learned lecturer 
would be able still further to follow out his interesting subject, and 
that they might hope to hear some more of the results of his inves- 
tigations at a future date. He had very great pleasure in seconding 
the vote of thanks to Sir John Lubbock. 
The vote of thanks was then formally put to the meeting by the 
President, and carried by acclamation. 
The President said that he had now the pleasing duty to perform 
of presenting the Quekett medal to the lecturer of that evening ; and, 
addressing Sir John Lubbock, he expressed the very great pleasure 
he had in presenting it to him in the name of the Council and of the 
Fellows of the Society; and he could not help expressing also his 
gratification at the opportunity thus afforded of doing honour to one 
whom it was his privilege to regard both as a personal friend and as a 
man of science. 
Sir John Lubbock, in reply, assured the Council and the Fellows 
that he felt very highly the honour conferred upon him in having 
been requested to deliver this lecture. He should preserve the medal 
with some degree of pride, and his family would preserve it as a 
much-prized memorial of the proceedings of that evening; and he 
would further say, that if anything could enhance its value in his esti- 
mation, it would be the fact of his having received it from the 
hands of his highly esteemed friend, the honoured President of their 
Society. 
Scientific Evening, April 3, 1877. 
Exhibitors and Objects. 
The President, H. C. Sorby, Esq.: Specimens showing the appli- 
cation of the microscope to the determination of the index of refraction 
of minerals. Remarkable characters of double refracting crystals. 
