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 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting oe 10th October, 1888, at Kma's College, Steand, W.C. 

 Dr. C. T. Hudson, M.A., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of tlie meeting of IStli June last were read and con- 

 firmed, 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 were 



given to the donors. 



From 

 Sherborn, C. D., A Bibliography of the Foraminifera, Eecent and 



Fossil, from 1565-1888. vi. and 152 pp. (8vo, London, 1888) The Author. 

 Packard, A. S., Entomology for Beginners, xvi. and 367 pp., 273 



figs. (8vo, New York, 1888) „ 



The President said he had the melancholy duty to perform of 

 announcing to the Society the death of one of their distinguished 

 Honorary Fellows, which had taken place since they last met : they 

 would know that he referred to the late Mr. Philip Henry Gosse. To 

 himself the loss had been a very sad one, associated as he had been so 

 intimately with that gentleman during their joint production of the work 

 on the ' Eotifera.' He felt that it was unnecessary to say anythincr 

 there as to his scientific attainments, or the value of the work which he 

 had acsomplished ; his books and his drawings were familiar to micro- 

 scopists wherever such were found. Those who had the advantage of his 

 personal acquaintance could speak of him as a man who was absolutely 

 free from the slightest spice of scientific jealousy, and who was always 

 ready to place his stores of knowledge at the disposal of others. He was 

 quite a stranger to him when they first met, and yet he placed the whole 

 of his beautiful drawings in his hands with the freest permission to make 

 full use of them. Fortunately, as they were aware, he was able to induce 

 Mr. Gosse to join with him in the work of publication. He continued 

 as vigorously at work up to the last as he had been at the time when 

 he first met him, and a series of 60 to 70 large coloured drawings of new 

 species which had recently been sent by his son, showed that up to 

 within six months of his death, his hand and eye were as perfect as they 

 were previously. It was proposed by the Council to fill up the vacancy 

 thus occurring in their list of Honorary Fellows by the election of Prof. 

 G. J. AUman, F.E.S,, so well known by his work on the Polyzoa and 

 Hydroids. 



Lord Edward Churchill exhibited and described a form of photo- 

 micrographic apparatus, which had been made for him by Mr. Swift and 

 which he thought possessed some advantages. The objective was screwed 

 into the end of the camera itself, and a movable stage with condenser 

 &c., worked in front of it, instead of working with these parts fitted to 

 the body of a Microscope, with which he had found a difBculty both in 

 focusing and in getting the image straight. A means was provided for 

 chromatic adjustment, and for fine-adjustment, which could be easily 



