198 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



the development of tlie higher forms of animal life was to be carried 

 on. He hoped at the next meeting to bring a paper on this subject. 



Mr. Ahi'ens exhibited a new binocular microscope of ingenious 

 construction, which could be worked with the highest powers. 



Dr. Pigott gave a brief description of an instrument for in- 

 creasiug (?) angular refraction. 



]\Ir. Richards exhibited a cheap form of pocket microscope. 



The President -will read a paper " On the Mode of working out 

 the Morphology of the Skull " at the next meeting, April the 6th, to 

 which day the meeting was adjourned. 



Officees akd Council of the Eoyal Microscopical Society, 

 Elected 8th Febbuaey, 1871. 



President. — *William Kitchen Parker, F.E.S. 



Vice-Pi-esidents. — Charles Brooke, M.A., F.E.S. ; *John Edward 

 Gray, Ph.D., F.E.S., F.L.S., &c. ; *John Millar, L.E.C.P.Ed., F.L.S. ; 

 Francis Herbert Wenham, C.E. 



Treasurer. — Eichard Mestayer, F.L.S. 



Secretaries. — Henry J. Slack, F.G.S. ; Jabez Hogg, F.L.S. 



Council. — Eobert Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S. ; *John Berney, Esq. ; 

 *James Glaisher, F.E.S. ; *William John Gray, M.D. ; Henry Lawson, 

 M.D.; Hem-y Lee, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; James Murie, M.D., F.L.S.; 

 *G. W. Eoyston-Pigott, M.A., M.D. Cantab., &c. ; John Ware 

 Stephenson, F.E.A.S. ; Chai-les Stewart, M.E.C.S., F.L.S.; Charles 

 Tyler, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; *Thomas Charters White, M.E.C.S. 



Donations to the Library from February 8 to March 1, 1871 : — 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Athenffium. Weekly W. W. B. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 105 Society. 



Journal of the Quekett Club Club. 



On the Claims of Science to Public Eecognition and Support. 



By Dr. Guy, F.E.S Author. 



Journal of the Linnean Society, No. 50 Society. 



A set of photographs. By Mr. Heunah Mr. Hennah. 



A set of photographs. By Dr. Woodward Dr. Woodward. 



John Ligertwood, M.A., M.D., was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist. -Secre tary. 



Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society. 



January 26th, 1871. — Microscopical Meeting. Mr. T. H. Hennah, 

 Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. E. Glaisyer announced the receipt of thi*ee slides from Mr. 

 Wonfor for the cabinet. 



Mr. Sewell, who had proposed the subject for the evening, — the 

 use of the Polariscope in the determination of Structure, — remarked 

 * Those with the asterisk placed before their names are newly elected. 



