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Microscopical Society of London. 



Amiiversary Meeting, February 12, 1851. Dr. Arthur Farre in the 

 chair. 



The Assistant Secretary read the following Report of the Council: — 



" According to annual custom, the Council have to make the fol- 

 lowing Report on the state and progress of the Society during the 

 past year. The number of Members at the last Anniversary was, Or- 

 dinary Members, 141 ; Associates and Honorary, 5 ; giving a total of 

 146. Since that time there have been elected 20, making a total of 166. 

 This number must, however, be reduced by 3, — 2 deceased and 1 re- 

 signed, making a final total of 163; being an increase of 17 upon the 

 number at the last Anniversary. The rooms have been opened on Wed- 

 nesdays during the session, under the usual regulations. The Cabinet 

 of Objects and the Library have been increased by various donations. 

 There are also in the possession of the Society various Drawings and 

 Diagrams, relating chiefly to papers read at the meetings of the So- 

 ciety ; together with copies of the several parts of the ' Transactions.' 

 The Council have also to state, that the arrangements made for facili- 

 tating the mutual exchange of Objects among the Members, have 

 been found extremely beneficial, not only to those making such ex- 

 changes, but also to the Society itself They have also to express 

 their regret, that the privilege enjoyed by the Members of making use 

 of the Society's Instruments, &c., on the Wednesday, has not been so 

 fully appreciated by them during the past year as the Council could 

 have desired." 



The Assistant Secretary read the following Report of the Auditors : — 



*' We have examined the Treasurer's Account for the past year with 

 the vouchers, and find the balance in hand to be £85 6s. 10c?., the 

 whole of which is at the bankers'." 



The President then addressed the meeting, giving a retrospect of 

 the past year, which included those abstracts of papers which have 

 already appeared in the ' Phytologist,' and congratulating the Society 

 on its present state and future prospects. 



The ballot was then taken for the election of Officers for the ensu- 

 ing year, when Dr. Arthur Farre was elected President ; N. B. Ward, 

 Esq., Treasurer; John Quekett, Esq., Secretary; Mr. John Williams, 

 Assistant Secretary; and Messrs. Gosse, Handford, Lankester, and 

 Woodward, new Members of Council. 



