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New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : 

 Messrs. Jesse Drinkwater, George Reginald Marriner, and Edalji Manekji 

 Modi. 



The following Instruments, Objects, etc., were exhibited : — 



The Society : — The following slides of Oribatidge, presented by Mr. 

 N. D. F. Pearce — Cepheus hifidatus, Damczus stiff! exits, Notaspis pilosa, 

 N. sculptilis, Nothrus anauniensis, N. crassus var. Morden, N. glaber, 

 N. invenustus, N. monodactylus, N. Targionii, N. Tectorinn, Oribata 

 omissa, 0. ritbens, Serrarius microcephalus. 



Messrs. R. and J. Beck : — Optical bench for monochromatic light. 



Mr. A. Earland : — Stereo-photomicrographs taken by Mr. William 

 P. Dollman, in illustration of paper by the latter. 



Mr. W. Griffiths : — The following slides of stained vegetable tissues 

 mounted in balsam — Peziza WiUkommii ; section of perithecium ; asci 

 and spores, stained with osmic acid ; Spirogyra in conjugation, stained 

 with picric acid and haemotoxylin, mounted in xylol-balsam ; Zygnema, 

 stained with hematoxylin, mounted in xylol-balsam. 



Dr. Hebb : — An Old Dry and Water-immersion ^-in. Objective by 

 Ross. 



Mr. Walter Rosenhain : — New Metallurgical Microscope and Lantern- 

 Slide of the same, in illustration of his paper. 



Mr. C. F. Rousselet : — New species of Rotifer from Natal, Gopeus 

 triangidatus, mounted specimens, in illustration of paper by Hon. Thos. 

 Kirkman. 



Mr. Henry Taverner : — Stereo-photomicrographs, in illustration of 

 his paper. 



MEETING 



Held on the 21st of March, 1906, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 The Right Hon. Sir Ford North, F.R.S., etc., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Chairman said that before they commenced the business of the 

 evening, he had, with much regret, to announce that since their last 

 Meeting a month ago, they had lost by death their Treasurer, Mr. John 

 Jewell Yezey. He had been a Fellow of the Society for some twenty- 

 seven years, and for many years a Member of the Council, and for the 

 last six or seven years their Treasurer. He was a man who took great 

 delight in science and literature, and was not only a most active and 

 useful and valuable Member of this Society, but also belonged to many 

 others, among which the Royal Institution, the Society of Arts, the 

 British Astronomical Association, the Royal Photographic Society, and 

 the Quekett Microscopical Club, might be mentioned. This would give 

 some idea of his versatility ; and he was equally active and energetic in 

 matters connected with the Church and with philanthropic undertakings 

 of various kinds, especially the Miller Hospital, in Greenwich Road, to 



