NEW YORK 

 'BOTANICAL 

 THE GARDEN 



(Founded in 1839. Incorporated by Eoyal Charter in 1866.) 



The Society was established for the communication and discussion 

 of observations and discoveries (1) tending to improvements in the con- 

 struction and mode of application of the Microscope, or (2) relating to 

 Biological or other subjects of Microscopical Eesearch. 



It consists of Ordinary, Honorary, and Ex-officio Fellows. 



Ordinary Fellows are elected on a Certificate of Eecommendation, 

 signed by three Fellows, stating the names, residence, description, &c., 

 of the Candidate, of whom one of the proposers must have personal 

 knowledge. The Certificate is read at a Monthly Meeting, and the 

 Candidate balloted for at the succeeding Meeting. 



The Annual Subscription is £2 2.s., payable in advance on election, 

 and subsequently on 1st January annually, with an Entrance Fee of £2 2s. 

 Future payments of the former may be comiDOunded for at any time for 

 £31 10s. Fellows elected at a meeting subsequent to that in February are 

 only called upon for a proportionate part of the first year's subscription, 

 and Fellows absent from the United Kingdom for a year, or perma- 

 nently residing abroad, are exempt from one-fourth of the subscription 

 during absence. 



Honorary Fellows (limited to 50), consisting of persons eminent 

 in Microscopical or Biological Science, are elected on the recommendation 

 of three Fellows and the approval of the Council. 



Ex-officio Fellows (limited to 100), consisting of the Presidents for 

 the time being of Biological and Microscopical Societies at home and 

 abroad, are elected on the recommendation of the Council. They are 

 entitled to receive the Society's Publications, and to exercise all other 

 privileges of Fellows, except voting, but are not required to pay any 

 Entrance Fee or Annual Subscription. 



The Council, in whom the management of the affairs of the Society 

 is vested, is elected annually, and is composed of the President, four Vice- 

 Presidents, Treasui-er, two Secretaries, and twelve other Fellows. 



The Meetings are held on the second Wednesday in each month, 



from October to June, in the Society's Library at King's College, Strand, 



W.C. (commencing at 8 p.m.). Visitors are admitted by the introduction of 



Fellows. 



^ In each Session two additional evenings are devoted to the exhibition 



-^ of Instruments, Apparatus, and Objects of novelty or interest relating to 



■•"^ the Microscope or the subjects of Microscopical Eesearch. 



The Journal, containing the Transactions and Proceedings of the 



01 Society, with a Summary of Current Eesearches relating to Zoology and 

 r^. Botany (iDrincipally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), Microscopy, &c., is 

 ^ published bi-monthly, and is forwarded post-free to all Ordinary and 

 ^_ Ex-officio Fellows residing in countries within the Postal Union. 



The Library, with the Instruments, Apparatus, and Cabinet of 

 Objects, is open for the use of Fellows daily (except Saturdays) from 

 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., and on Wednesdays from 7 to 9.30 p.m. also. It is closed 

 for four weeks during August and September. 



Forms of proposal for Fellowship, and any further information, may be obtained by 

 application to the Secretaries, or Assistant- Secretary, at the Library of the Society, 

 King's College, Strand, W.C. 



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