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Juurnal, Feb. 1, 1870. J \ ^^'-' J 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



EoYAL Microscopical Society. 



King's College, January 12, 1870. 



The Eev. J. B. Eeade, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 



A list of donations to the Society was read, and a vote of thanks 

 given to the respective donors. 



Mr. Slack announced that Messrs. Gould and Porter had sent for 

 exhibition a specimen of their small cheap education microscope ; and 

 that the Eev. T. H. Browne, of High Wycombe, had presented to the 

 Society a box containing one dozen slides of carefully prepared sec- 

 tions of bone. 



A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Browne. 



Mr. Slack also said he had been requested to state that at the next 

 meeting of the Society (which would be the annual meeting) a propo- 

 sition would be brought forward to discontinue the practice of providing 

 refreshments after the ordinary meetings, as it was found that less than 

 half the Fellows who attended availed themselves of the provision 

 made, and that in lieu thereof a friendly conversazione should be held. 

 By this means a saving of some 16Z. to 20Z. per annum would be 

 effected, which might be advantageously appropriated to the pm-chase 

 of books and apparatus. The Council had no wish to influence the 

 decision of the Fellows, but thought it worthy of their consideration. 



The President proposed that M. Mouchet, of Eochefort-siu--Mer, 

 should be elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society. M. Mouchet 

 was an ardent microscopist, and would feel much pleasure in being 

 more intimately connected with the Society. He had obtained some 

 distinction for inventions in relation to microscopical apparatus, for 

 one of which (a method of cutting wood for microscopic examination) 

 he had received from the French emperor at the late Exhibition a gold 

 medal of honour. He had also devised a finder of more extended appli- 

 cation than Maltwood's, for not only could the objects be found, but 

 also accui-ately measured. The President then read a short commu- 

 nication from M, Mouchet referring to his machine for cutting thin 

 sections of wood. 



The ballot was then ordered to be taken for the election of 

 M. Mouchet. 



Mr. J. Beck was happy to add his testimony to M. Mouchet's 

 character as a diligent student of microscopy, and very cordially sup- 

 ported the proposition of the President. 



The list of Fellows who would be proposed as officers of the 

 Society at the annual meeting in February was then read. 



* Secretaries of Societies will greatly oblige us by writing their reports legibly 

 — especially by printing the techniciil terms thus : Hydra — and by "underlining " 

 words, such as specific names, which must be printed in italics. They will thus 

 ensure accuracy and enhance the value of their proceedings. — Ed. M. M, J. 



