PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Royal Microscopical Society. 

 February 4<th, 18/4. 



This being the Annual General Meeting, the Officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year were elected as follows, viz. — 



President. — Charles Brooke, M.A., F.R.S. 



Vice-Presidents. — Robert Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S. ; John 

 Miller, L.R.C.P., F.L.S. ; William Kitchen Parker, F.R.S. ; Francis 

 H. Wenham, C.E. 



Treasurer. — Jolin Ware Stephenson, F.R.A.S. 



Secretaries.— Henry J. Slack, F.G.S. ; Charles Stewart, M.R.C.S,, 

 F.LS. 



Council. — James Bell, F.C.S. ; Frank Crisp, LL.B. B.A. ; 

 William J. Gray, M.D.; John E. Ingpen, Esq.; Samuel J. Mclntire, 

 Esq. ; Henry Lee, F.L.S. ; William T. Loy, Esq. ; Henry Lawson, 

 M.D.; Henry Perigal, F.R.A.S.; Alfred Saunders, M.R.C.S.; 

 Charles Tyler, F.L.S.; Thomas C. White, M.R.C.S. 



The Annual Report of the Society was read, from which it 

 appeared that nine Fellows had been elected during the past year, 

 and five had died during the same period. Among the latter was 

 Mr. Cornelius Varley, one of the founders of the Society, and, like 

 his distinguished brother John Varley, well known as a water- 

 colour painter. He contributed several papers to the ' Transactiims ' 

 of the Society, and invented many improvements in the microscope. 

 Mr. Varley died in his ninety-second year. 



A new bye-law relating to the election of Corresponding Fellows 

 was proposed and passed. 



The President then delivered the annual address. 



He stated that renewed application had been made to the Govern- 

 ment for accommodation for the Society in Burlington House, 

 but that the matter was still under consideration. 



The President referred to some of the papers which had been 

 published in the Journal of the Society, especially one by Dr. 

 Pritchard, on the cochlea, read before the Medical Microscopical 

 Society ; Mr. Wenliam's on a new formula for an object-glass, and 

 some contributions by Dr. Royston-Pigott. 



The President, having fi'led the office of scientific juror at the 

 Vienna E.vhibition, spoke of some of the microscopes and objectives 

 there exhibited, singling out those of Hartnack for special com- 



