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the late Mr. Thomas Eoss, the Secretary stated that the ofBcers of the 

 Society were in no way to blame, or wanting in respect for the memory 

 of that gentleman. It was by the request of his widow to the Editor 

 that no such notice appeared in the Journal. 



The list of donations to the cabinet and library was read, and a 

 vote of thanks given to the respective donors. 



The Secretary annoimced that the Society was indebted to the 

 good offices cf Mr. Ladd for a very handsome present from Sir John 

 Sebright, consisting of an Amici microscope and apparatus constructed 

 by Chevalier, of Paris. Along with the microscope was an autograph 

 letter of Amici, with a long description of the instrument in Italian. 

 The instrument would be exhibited 'at the forthcoming scientific 

 meeting. 



A special vote of thanks was passed to Sir John Sebright and Mr. 

 Ladd. 



It was also stated that, through Mr. Mclntire, Mr. C. Maplestone, 

 of Victoria, had presented the Society with thirty-six slides of palates 

 of the Victorian Mollusca. 



The following letter was then read from the Microscopical Society 

 of the State of New York : — 



"American Microscopical Society op the City of New York, 

 64, Madison Avenue, Feb. 17, 1871. 



" Mt dear Sir, — It becomes my duty to inform you that at a recent 

 meeting of the American Microscopical Society the following resolu- 

 tion was imanimously passed : — 



" Resolved, that the American Microscopical Society have learned 

 with pain of the death of the Eev. J. B. Reade, President of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society of London ; and feeling the great loss 

 that microscopical science has sustained by his death, they offer to 

 their fellow-workers in England their sincere regrets and sympathy. 



" Yours very truly, 



" S. G. Peert, Cor. Sec. 



" To THE President of the Kotal Mic. Society, 

 London, England." 



The President announced that Dr. Harkness, of California, was 

 present as a visitor. 



The President then read a paper " On the Mode of Working-out 

 the Morphology of the Skull." 



Mr. C. Brooke proposed a vote of thaidis to the President for his 

 comanunication. 



Dr. Lawson : It was impossible to make any observations on the 

 extremely valuable paper just read by the President. It had laid 

 before the Fellows the results of years of toil, and when he (Dr. Law- 

 son) remembered, in the days when he was a student, how the views 

 of Owen, Melville, and many others who had gone into the cranial 

 theory had been presented to him, he was astonished to see Mr. Parker 



