120 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [April. 



the Skull of a Bat, by Dr. Harrison Allen ; Young of Baculites, 

 by Mr. A. P. Brown ; Syphoptychium and Tubulina, by Dr. G. 

 A. Rex ; Films of Metallic Gold, by D. S. Holman ; Hippa, by 

 Dr. Benjamin Sharp ; Pinnotheres, by Di\ Benjamin Sharp ; 

 Joint Formation among the Invertebrata. retiring address of 

 Director Benjamin Sharp. 



Additions to the property of the section have been made as 

 follows : By purchase — ^one Spencer ^ inch objective ; two 

 •' B " eyepieces ; by donation — one i-io inch objective; from 

 Mr. A. P. Brown ; oneCentennial microscope from theheirs of Dr. 

 R. S. Kenderdine ; about 600 slide preparations from tlie heirs of 

 Dr. R. S. Kenderdine ; about 45 slide preparations from Mr. Har- 

 old Wingate ; about 50 slide preparations from Dr. George A. 

 Rex ; about 25 slide preparations from other members. 



The officers for the ensuing year are : Director, Mr. A. P. 

 Brown ; Vice-Director, Mr. Jno. C. Wilson ; Recorder, Mr. 

 Harold Wingate; Treasurer, Mr. Chas. P. Perot; Correspond- 

 ing Secretary, Dr. Chas. Schcefter ; Conservator, Dr. Geo. A. 

 Rex. 



QuEKETT Microscopical Club, London. 



jogth ordinary meeting, Feb. ly. — 20 Hanover street, Dr. 

 W. H. Dallinger in the chair. Ballot was taken for president 

 and officers for the ensuing year. 



The secretary read the 27th report of the committee, and the 

 treasurer his annual statement. Officers were elected as follows : 

 For President, Mr. E. M. Nelson ; for Vice-Presidents, Dr. Dallin- 

 ger, Prof. Lowne, Mr. Michael, Prof. Stewart ; for Foreign Secre- 

 tary, Mr. C. Rousselet ; to fill five vacancies on the committee, 

 Messrs. Newton, Parsons, Western, Hembry, and E. Browne. 



The president then gave the annual address. Dr. Dallinger 

 first dealt with the optics of the modern objective, and pointed 

 out that under the present conditions it had reached the limits ot 

 practical utility, or even exceeded them. He referred to mono- 

 chromatic illumination, and expressed a hope that English 

 makers would endeavor to work out objectives for use with light 

 of certain wave lengths. He next gave an account of Prof. 

 Biitschli's ''foams," or so-called artificial protoplasm, and his 

 own experiments with it, and pointed out that, however impor- 

 tant and interesting from a physical basis, it possessed none of the 

 distinctive characters of true living matter. Finally he gave a 

 resume of Pasteur's and Frankland's researches on nitrification 

 as caused b}' micro-organisms. 



Dr. Dallingervacated the chair, installingMr. Nelson, the newly 

 elected president, who expressed his thanks for the honor con- 

 ferred upon him, and presented to the club a handsome cabinet 

 containing a collection of over 1,100 specimens, mostly selected 

 Foraminifera, made by the late Mr. Hailes, as a memorial of 

 tlicir editor and foreign secretary. 



