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view of an object, but tliat the definition was faulty, wliich was excus- 

 able in amateur work. There could be no doubt that the mechanical 

 arrangements were most admirable. 



The President also stated that before he adjourned the meeting he 

 wished to allude to the statement in his Address that Dr. Woodward 

 was the only observer who had succeeded in resolving Nobert's 19th 

 band, containing 112,688 lines to the inch, with a power of 1000 

 linear. Mr. Charles Stodder, of Boston, had however preceded Dr. 

 Woodward in resolving this band, as appears in the ' Monthly Micro- 

 scopical Journal ' for May. In this letter Mr. Stodder has directed 

 our attention to a paper from himself, " On Nobert's Test-Plate," 

 published in the ' Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science ' for 

 July, 1868. This paper having been published in our vacation had 

 been overlooked, otherwise ho (the President) would have gladly 

 relieved Mr. Stodder's mind from any suspicion of unfair dealing by 

 giving the following quotation : — " With ToUes' -^th immersion, 

 angular aperture 170^, B eye-piece, power 550, Mr. Greenleaf and 

 myself both saw the 19th band satisfactorily. Thus being probably 

 the first ever to see lines of 112,000 to the inch, and establishing the 

 fact of the visibility of such lines, contrary to the theory of the 

 physicists." Hereby Mr. Stodder, as well as Dr. Woodward, had 

 supplied " a strong fact in favour of the immersion system," which 

 was the real point in question ; though at the same time it should be 

 borne in mind that Colonel Woodward in his communication to the 

 Society had thrown some doubt as to the nature of the lines seen but 

 not counted by Mr. Stodder. The President added that Mr. Stodder 

 seemed to have forgotten that Messrs. Harrison and SoUett, of Hull, 

 were the first to discover and describe the Navicula acus, which has 

 made " the acus " a familiar term in England. 



The meeting then adjourned to June 8th, when Mr. J. W. Stephen- 

 son, F.E.A.S., will exhibit and describe a New Form of Binocular 

 Microscope, and Mr. James Bell, of the Laboratory, Somerset House, 

 will read a paper, "Experiments on Fermentation and Parasitic 

 Fungi." 



Donations to the Library from April 13th to May 11th, 1870 : — 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Scientific Opinion. Part XVIII Editor. 



Bet of Proof Impressions from the Plates illustrating Mr. 



Suffolk's Lectures to the Quekett Club W. T. Suffolk, Esq. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 



John Graham Berry, Esq. 

 Eev. Charles Burrows. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist.-Sccretary. 



