PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 1119 



Meeting of 11th November, 1885, atKikg's College, Strand, W.C, 

 THE President (the Eev. Dr. Dallinger, F.R.S.) in the 

 Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 14th October last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) 

 received since the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the 

 Society given to the donors. 



Candolle, A. de, Lois de la Nomenclature Botanique. 2me ed., From 



64 pp. 8vo, Geneve, 1867 Mr. Crisp. 



Dodel-Port, A., Biologische Fragmente. Beitrage zur Entwick- 



lungsgeschichte der Pflanzen. 104 pp., 24 figs., and 10 pla. 



4to, Cassel and Berlin, 1885 The Author. 



Fischer, H., Kritisclie Mikroskopisch-Mineralogische Studien. 



Part 1, 69 pp., Part 2, 64 pp.. Part 3, 96 pp. and 2 pis. 



8vo, Freiburg, 1869-73 Mr. Crisp. 



Nageli, C, and Schwendener, S., Das Mikroskop : Theorie 



und Anwendung desselben. 2te Aufl., xii. and 679 pp. and 



302 figs. 8vo, Leipzig, 1877 „ 



Power, H., Experimental Philosophy, xx. and 193 pp. and 



2 figs, and 1 plate. 4to, London, 1664 „ 



Keinicke, F., Beitriige zur Neuem Mikroskopie. Heft 1, 57 pp. 



and 1 pi., Heft 2, vi. and 85 pp. and 6 figs., Heft 3, iv. and 



74 pp. and 2 figs. 8 vo, Dresden, 1858-62 



Schacht, H., Die Priifung der im Handel vorkommenden 



Gewebe durch das Mikroskop und durch Ghemische Re- 



agentien. viii. and 64 pp. and 8 pis. 8vo, Berlin, 1853 .. „ 



Willkomm, M., Die Wunder des Mikroskops, oder die Welt 



im Kleinsten Riiume. 4te Aufl., x. and 400 pp., 285 figs. 



and 1 pi. 8vo, Leipzig, 1878 „ 



The President said that before proceeding to the ordinary busi- 

 ness of the meeting, it fell to him to take notice of what was to all 

 present a personal sorrow, and to their Society a sorrow in a pre- 

 eminent degree — he referred to the lamented death of Dr. W. B. 

 Carpenter. For his own part he could only speak of him with the 

 utmost reverence ; he had been in correspondence with him for some 

 years upon subjects in which they were mutually interested, and in 

 course of which he had found him ever ready with advice, and not 

 loss so with his constant urbanity, ready to place all that he pos- 

 sessed mentally and physically — the stores from hi.^ brain or from his 

 cabinet — at the disposal of those who needed such help to enable 

 them to accomplish work which tliey had taken in hand. The 

 Fellows of the Society knew — so far as hud been made public — the 

 circumstanocs of the unhappy incident which had deprived them of a 

 man who had occupied so high a position in biological science, and 

 they wjuld not but lament that he had thus been taken from them, as 

 they rniglit almost say, before his time. Those who had followed his 

 labours and had been acquainted with his work from its earliest time, 

 would remember that ho was one of the first of those who gave a 

 true foundation to the science of pliysiology ; thoy would know liow 

 his works had become u power in themselves in tlie days immediately 



