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and to their friends on the 21st of Aprih He felt sure they must all 

 have felt highly gratified at the very admirable manner in which the 

 arrangements were conducted, and must have been extremely pleased 

 with the interesting entertainment provided for them on that occasion. 



The motion having been seconded by Mr, Fitzgerald, was put to 

 the meeting by Mr. Brooke, and carried unanimously. 



The President expressed himself as much obliged to the Fellows 

 of the Society for the kind manner in which this vote of thanks had 

 been proposed and carried. In making arrangements for a conversa- 

 zione of that kind, it happened sometimes that many things might 

 turn up to interfere with success, and which it was not possible to 

 foresee or to provide against, but in this case he was glad to find that 

 everything went off as well as could be expected. For his own part, 

 he could only now wish to thank those Fellows of the Society who 

 assisted on the occasion by the exhibition of so many beautiful and 

 very interesting objects. 



Mr. Blake read a paper " On what appeared to be Foraminifera in 

 the Coralline Oolite." Specimens in illustration were exhibited under 

 several microscopes in the room. (The paper is printed at p. 262.) 



The President, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Blake for his 

 paper, said that personally he felt exceedingly pleased that Mr. Blake 

 had succeeded in finding these things in the condition in which he 

 had described them, and there would now appear to be good evidence 

 for deciding that they were Foraminifera, a matter which it had been 

 extremely difficult to decide before. He called attention to a diagram 

 suspended in the room, and which represented the results of some of 

 his own observations upon the same subject made many years ago ; 

 and said that in a majority of cases he was unable to find any evidence 

 that these little bodies were, or had been, shells, but in a few instances 

 there was some indication round the margin as if it had resulted from 

 dirt getting into the shell, and although he had found this several 

 times, he doubted whether he could rely upon that sort of evidence 

 alone, although his own opinion was that they had been shells. The 

 position in which Mr. Blake had found them was also a matter of 

 interest, as rendering it probable that they were also to be found in 

 calcareous grit, and coralline oolite over a very wide area. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Blake for his paper. 



Mr. Jas. Glaisher said that about a year since, he had the pleasure 

 of introducing to the Society Dr. Gayer ; that gentleman had then 

 some experience in micro-photography, and he had urged him to 

 persevere in it, and to communicate the results to the Society. This 

 he had done, and judging by the specimens which were placed upon 

 the table that evening, he had not done so without success. 



A number of beautiful photo-micrographs were then handed round 

 for the inspection of the Fellows, and a paper by Dr. Gayer describing 

 the apparatus employed and the process of manipulation was read to 

 the meeting by Mr. Glaisher. (Paper printed at p. 258.) 



The President proposed a vote of thanks to Dr. Gayer for his 

 paper, and also to Mr. Glaisher for persuading him to go on with 

 that kind of study, and for reading the paper to them on that occasion. 



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