168 THE NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST. 
reduced to £25, the expenditure including £10 for 200 copies of the Zransac- 
tions of the Association which were delivered free; expenses of lectures, £4; 
hire of lecture rooms, £6. In the next half year there were no expenses what- 
ever, and the balance increased to £39 13s. 10d. In the half year ending June, 
1880, lectures cost about £4; printing, £11; Zransactions, £9 10s; capitation 
grant, £4 15s.; and a contribution of £25 towards the expenses of the cases in 
the Museum. On the 30th June last there was a balance of £7 8s. 2d., which 
was increased at the end of the year to £18 16s. 3d. The expenses included 
lectures, £2 15s.; sundries, £2 16s. 6d.; printing, £17 16s. 2d.; lecture room, 
453 capitation grant, £3 15s.; Zransactions, £7 15s.; balance, £2 8s. 11d. 
All the Society owed was £1 3s., which need not be paid till Christmas, while 
about 40 members were in arrears with their subscriptions. If they got that in 
they would be doing very well. 
The ordinary business of the Society being completed, a discussion took place 
as to the advisability of inducing the proposed Microscopical Society to establish 
themselves as a section of the Scientific Society. Mr. Hall, surgeon, said he 
had been deputed by the meeting recently held in the County Hall to attend 
here and explain matters. The only difference of opinion at that meeting was 
as to how the proposed Society should be conducted. He himself thought it 
would be best likely to succeed as a separate Society, but others thought success 
would be best secured if a union with the Scientific Society could be affected. 
The first difficulty was that the smaller fee of 5s. would not cover the expenses, 
and the Museum rooms were ill-suited for the microscope. They were not 
steady enough. Still steady tables could be bought, and if those rooms proved 
unsuitable another might be got. They were quite prepared to form a Society 
separately, but if the Scientific Society were prepared to offer facilities and 
advantages, then it would be for another meeting to entertain the proposal. 
The Chairman said such a combination would be quite in accordance with the 
rules and the objects for which this Society was formed. The Committee had 
discussed it and would do everything they could to facilitate the objects of the 
Microscopical Society. Dr. Barnes said the Committee had held a meeting to 
discuss the terms on which such a section of the Society could be established, 
but only members of the Scientific Society Committee were present. They 
concluded that it would be desirable that the Microscopical Society should be a 
section of the Scientific Society, the members of the former to be members of 
the latter, the section to. elect its own officers who would be responsible for the 
business and have control of the funds, and if the section ceased to exist, its 
books and other property to become the property of the Museum Committee. 
He moved the following resolution :—‘‘ That this Society views with approval 
the proposal to form a Microscopical Society in Carlisle in connection with the 
Scientific Society, and refers to the Committee the power to make the necessary 
arrangements for the establishment of a Microscopical Section.” Mr. Bin- 
ning seconded the resolution. Mr. Maclaren said matters looked extremely 
well for a union of the views of both sides, and probably a little modifica- 
tion of the conditions read out by Dr. Barnes would meet all their wishes. 
The Scientific Society was established on a sufficiently broad basis to take 
in this section, and they might do worse than devote some of their future 
surplus to promoting the active study of science. Mr. Sinclair said it would 
scarcely be wise of the meeting to commit itself to anything. The Chair- 
man said the meeting was not in a position to make any pledge, but he 
thought the two should be joined. He should like to see the Museum rooms 
made the centre of scientific effort in Carlisle, with a view to the day when they 
might have a proper place built with a small chemical laboratory. Next year, 
or the year after, the annual meeting of the Cumberland Association would be 
held in Carlisle, and they might make an exhibition of microscopical apparatus 
a feature of one of the afternoons. When they got rid of the Museum debt 
they should have money to inyest, and one way of spending it would be on a 
