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The Toner Lectures. By Dr. J. J. Woodward. 
Marvels of Pond Life. 2nd Edition. By H. J. Slack. 
The Protoplasmic Theory of Life. By Dr. Drysdale. 
Books Purchased. 
Annals of Natural History. 2 Vols. 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. Vol. XXII. 
Monograph of British Annelids. Part 2. By Dr. McIntosh. 
Monograph of the British Spongiadse. By Dr. Bowerbank. Yol. III. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society. 2 Yols. 
Fungi Britannici, cent. vij. By M. C. Cooke. 
A History of British Quadrupeds. By Thomas Bell, &c. Second Edition. 
Apparatus and Slides Presented during the Year. 
A Simple Microscope and Set of Apparatus. By Tully. 
A Single ditto. By Holland. 
An Ancient Microscope and some Spectacles used by 
the late Robert Brown. 
A Mechanical Finger. W. T. Suffolk, Esq. 
Ross’s instrument for measuring thin glass. Dr. Millar. 
10 Slides. 
Seventeen Fellows, one Corresponding, and one Honorary Fellow, 
have been elected during the past year. 
Ten Fellows and one Associate have died : 
Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor-Beauchamp, Bart., elected June 1807 
died Oct. 7, 1874. 
*Thomas William Burr, elected Jan., 1854, died May 22, 1874. 
plohn Armstrong Purefoy Colles, M.D., Bengal Army, elected June, 1809, 
died at Dinapore, Feb. 8, 1873. 
**Henry Deane, elected Jan., 1840, died April 4, 1874. 
•(■Frederick Henry Leaf, elected Nov., I860, died Oct. 23, 1874. 
♦Edwin Lankester, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., elected Jan., 1805, died Oct. 30, 1874. 
♦Robert Lloyd, elected Feb., 1860, died June 22, 1874. 
^Arthur Waller, elected March, 1868, died Dec. 1, 1874. 
**John Williams, elected Jan., 1840, died Dec. 3, 1874. 
*tR. W. S. Lulwidge, M.A., elected April, 1854, died May 2S, 1873. 
♦Charles M. Topping, elected an Associate Feb. 1846, died Sept. 3, 1874. 
Papers Read before the Royal Microscopical Society during the past 
Year. 
Contributions towards a Knowledge of the Appendicularia. By Alfred Sanders. 
Note on the Verification of Structure by the Movements of Compressed Fluids. 
By Dr. Roystou-Pigott. 
On Bog Mosses. By Dr. Braithwaite. 
The Seales of Lepisma as seen with Reflected and Transmitted Light. By Dr. 
J. Anthony. 
Notes on a Curious Proboscis of an unknown Moth. By S. J. Mclntire. 
An Instrument for excluding Extraneous Rays, in measuring Apertures of Micro- 
scope Object-glasses. By F. H. Wenham. 
On certain Beaded Silica Films Artificially Formed. By H. J. Slack. 
The Suctorial Organs of the Blow-fly. By Dr. J. Anthony. 
On the Use of Black Shadow Markings and on a Black Shadow Illuminator. By 
Dr. Royston-Pigott. 
Continued Researches into the Life History of the Monads. By W. H. Dallinger 
and Dr. J. Drysdale. 
On some Microscopic Leaf Fungi from the Himalayas. By Dr. J. Fleming. 
Synopsis of the Principal Facts elicited from a series of Microscopical Researches 
upon the Nervous Tissues. By Dr. H. D. Schmidt. 
Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
