172 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. _ [Monthly Microssopiei 
ment during the year. On the motion of the President, seconded 
by Dr. R. Braithwaite, the reports were unanimously received and 
adopted. 
The President then delivered an address to the members, in which, 
after reviewing the past history of the Club, and pointing out those 
elements which had mainly contributed to its success, he offered some 
valuable counsel as to the future, urging the desirability of each 
member choosing some single object for careful study rather than 
wandering aimlessly over a wide field, or searching for mere tests of 
instrumental power, and suggesting the valuable aid which might be 
rendered to science by the active co-operation of several individuals 
in following up some selected object. Closer acquaintance with the 
optical principles of the instrument with which they worked, and the 
reduction of the vast mass of literature at command, were also recom- 
mended, and the importance of drawing and mathematics as acces- 
sories to microscopical study was incidentally alluded to. The 
address was concluded by hearty expressions of desire for the future 
welfare and usefulness of the Club, and the President resumed his seat 
amidst loud and prolonged applause. A vote of thanks to the Presi- 
dent for his services during his year of office, and for his admirable 
address, was moved by Mr. M. C. Cooke, seconded by Dr. Braith- 
waite, and carried unanimously. Mr. 8. J. McIntire then read an 
interesting paper “On the Pencil Tail ”—Polyxenus Lagurus—illus- 
trated by drawings, and by the exhibition of both adult and recently- 
hatched living specimens. A vote of thanks to Mr. McIntire was 
carried nem. dis. The election of officers for the ensuing year was 
then proceeded with, and upon the report of the scrutineers being 
handed in to the President, the following gentlemen were declared by 
him to be duly elected :—As President, Dr. Lionel 8. Beale, F.R.S. ; 
as Vice-Presidents, Dr. Braithwaite, Mr. A. E. Durham, Mr. P. Le 
Neve Foster, and Mr. Henry Lee ; as Members of Committee, Messrs. 
Allbon, Burr, Bywater, and C. F. White; as Hon. Sec., Mr. T. C. 
White ; as Treasurer, Mr. Hardwicke; and as Hon. Sec. for Foreign 
Correspondence, Mr. M. C. Cooke. Mr. Foster having briefly intro- 
duced his successor in office, vacated the chair, which was taken, 
amidst great cheering, by Dr. Lionel 8. Beale, F.R.S., who expressed 
the pleasure which it afforded him to come amongst the members of the 
Club, and his sense of the honour conferred upon him by his election 
as President. An unusual number of presents to the Club were an- ~ 
nounced by the Secretary, including a handsome tank-microscope 
with 4-inch objective from Mr. Ross, for which special thanks were 
returned. 
Three new members were elected, seven gentlemen were proposed 
for membership, and the proceedings terminated with a conversazione, 
at which a variety of interesting objects were exhibited, 
