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Fellow of tlie Society. Dr. Woodward’s name was well known to 
most of tliem from his many communications, as well as by the nume- 
rous photo-micrographs for which the Society was indebted to him. 
The President having put the proposition from the chair, it was 
unanimously resolved that Dr. Woodward’s name be suspended in the 
usual manner, and that it be brought before the Fellows for election 
at the next ordinary meeting. 
The President said that a number of photographic likenesses of 
their former President, the late Rev. J. B. Reade, had been sent to 
the Society by Dr. Wallich, for distribution amongst the Fellows. 
They would be placed upon the table, and the Fellows were invited 
to take one each at the termination of the meeting. They would 
doubtless be very glad to avail themselves of the opportunity of pos- 
sessing a memento of Mr. Reade, and would feel greatly obliged to 
Dr. Wallich for his kindness in enabling them to do so. 
A cordial vote of thanks to Dr. Wallich for the photographs was 
unanimously carried. 
A paper by Dr. Hudson, “ On the Discovery of some New Male 
Rotifers,” was read to the meeting by the Secretary, who expressed his 
great regret that owing to an attack of bronchitis the author was 
prevented from reading it to them in person. The paper was illus- 
trated by a number of extremely beautiful drawings in white and 
coloured chalks upon a black ground, representing the rotifers as they 
would be seen by the paraboloid illumination. 
The Secretary called the special attention of the Fellows to the 
drawings, several of which were exhibited from the chair, whilst the 
particular portions of the paper relating to them were re-read. He 
much regretted the absence of Dr. Hudson, and the more so because 
he believed that there were other illustrations and some additional 
particulars which would have been brought before them had he been 
able to come there that evening. The subject was one of very great 
interest, and he observed that in a note appended to the paper Dr. 
Hudson mentioned that in all the males figured and described he 
had seen the motion of the spermatozoa within the testes. 
The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to Dr. Hudson 
for his valuable and interesting paper. 
Mr. C. Stewart (Secretary) said that they had just received a paper 
from Dr. Schmidt, of New Orleans, on the Development of the Smaller 
Blood-vessels in the Human Embryo. Unfortunately the paper had 
only been placed in his hands that evening, so that he had not had 
any opportunity of reading it through or becoming acquainted with its 
contents ; under these circumstances he felt that he might be doing it 
an injustice to attempt to make an abstract then. The better course, 
he thought, would be to take the paper as read ; the text would then 
appear in the next number of the Journal, together with the very 
beautiful illustrations by which it was accompanied. 
The paper was then taken as read, and a vote of thanks to Dr. 
Schmidt was unanimously passed. 
The Secretary reminded the Fellows that their next scientific 
evening would be held on December 9, and requested that intimation 
