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The first business on the regular programme was the election of new 

 members. Secretary Seaman read the list that had been acted upon 

 favorably at the meeting of the Executive Committee. The new mem- 

 bers elected were as follows : 



Dr. Charles D. Smith, Portland, Me.; Prof. E.G. Love, New 

 York ; Prof. Edward A. Burt, Albany, N. Y. ; Dr. R. P. Crandall, 

 U. S. N., Brooklyn ; Dr. Henry N. Heinemann, New York ; Nathan 

 Banks, Sea Clift', N. Y. ; Dr. Julius A. Gottleib, New York ; Dr. 

 James M. Flint, Washington, D. C. ; Dr. Otto Piatt, Cincinnati ; Rev. 

 George E. Goetz, Erie, Pa. ; Dr. J. Melvin Lamb, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Prof. Arthur H. Elliott, New York ; Dr. James Foster Scott, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; J. C. Brubaker, Kansas City ; Dr. Charles B. Gilbert, 

 Washington, D. C. ; F. Patrick, Topeka, Kans. ; Dr. H. W. Ingalls, 

 Lagrange, Ohio ; Dr. S. H. Piatt, Waterbury, Conn. ; John Michels, 

 Chicago; Dr. iV. E. MacKay, Portland, Oreg. ; Jonathan White, 

 Brockton, Mass. ; Dr. A. L. Kotz, Easton, Pa. ; Dr. Robert S. Wil- 

 lard, Brownsboro', Tenn. ; Dr. Ernst Wende, Buflalo ; Dr. Joseph P. 

 Remington, Philadelphia; W. H. Ohler, Portland, Me. ; S^ W. Cal- 

 lett, Glidden, Iowa ; Dr. Thomas B. Hood, Washington, D. C. ; Dr. 

 James Barnesfather, Cincinnati ; Rudolph Siemon, Fort Wayne, Ind. ; 

 Dr. J. W. Meeker, Nyack-on-Hudson ; Dr. W. S. Miller, Worcester, 

 Mass. ; Dr. James Stimson, Watsonville, Cal. ; Thomas D. Biscoe, 

 Marietta, Ohio; Dr. Paul Paquin, Columbia, Mo. ; Dr. W. T. Baird, 

 Dallas, Tex. ; Robert O. Moody, New Haven, Conn. ; Harry F. Starts- 

 man, Rochester, N. Y. ; N. Howland Brown, Philadelphia ; Charles 

 H. Denison, Brooklyn ; Gustave Guttenburg, Pittsburg ; Magnus 

 Pflaum, Pittsburg; John B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J. ; Herbert 

 Eastman Kerrey, Littleton, N. H. ; Dr. H. L. E. Johnson, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. Robert Reyburn, of the committee on incorporating the society, 

 read a report, showing what had been done and what yet remained to 

 be done in the formalit}^ of the proceedings. In reading the form ot 

 incorporation, he suggested that the name of the society be changed 

 from the American Society of Microscopists to the American Micro- 

 scopical Societv. This suggestion met with general favor on account 

 of the bulk and awkwardness of the old name. It was moved that the 

 change be made, and the motion v^^as carried. 



Dr. L. D. Mcintosh, of Chicago, then read an interesting paper on 

 " The Portable Lime Light," illustrating his remarks by means of an in- 

 strument, using the light, with which he presented a slide upon a screen 

 about twelve feet distant. He explained the workings of the machine. 



Dr. J. Melvin Lamb next read a paper on " The Microscope in 

 Government work." This was somewhat in the nature of a guide to 

 the society, giving the members a very good idea of the work that is 

 being done with the microscope in the departments here, and telling 

 them where they could see the most that would be of interest to micro- 

 scopists. 



Mr. Bausch, of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., read a brief descrip- 

 tion of a new microscope recently placed on the market. 



Dr. James M. Flint, of Washington, presented an interesting and en- 

 tertaining paper on "Apparatus for public and class exhibitions of 

 microscopic objects." He explained a number of ingenious devices for 



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