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The following Instruments, Objects, &c, were exhibited:— 

 Mr. Bolton : — Dendrosoma radians. 

 Mr. Crisp : — Adams's large Microscope. 

 Mr. Kitton : — Biddulphia echinata n. sp. 



Mr. A. Meates : — Navicula rhomboides mounted in new medium. 

 Mr. J. B. Shearer : — Photomicrographs of various microscopic objects. 

 Dr. E. Zeiss: — Photomicrographs of Amphipleura pellucida and 

 Pleurosigma angula turn. 



New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : — 

 Messrs. Thomas W. Cave, M.E.C. V.S., John Dimsdale, John H. Mummery, 

 M.E.C.S., George Pearce, William H. Pratt, Adolf Schulze, A. Norman 

 Tate, F.I.C., F.C.S., Frederick W. Thompson, and Eev. H. Armstrong 

 Plall. Prof. G. Govi, Prof. Sven Loven, and Prof. E. Virchow were 

 elected Honorary Fellows. 



Meeting of 9th May, 1888, at King's College, Strand, W.C., 

 The President (Dr. C. T. Hudson) in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 11th April 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. 



Cross, C. F., E. J. Bevan, & C. M. King, Report on Indian Fibres From 



and Fibrous Substances, vi. and 71 pp. and 5 pis. (8vo, 

 London, 1887) The Authors. 



The President said that on the occasion of his taking the chair for 

 the first time, he desired, before beginning the business of the evening, 

 to thank the Fellows very heartily for the honour which they had done 

 him in electing him their President. He confessed that when he heard 

 the news it filled him with a kind of fearful joy, because Dr. Dallinger's 

 great services during the four years he had held the office had been so 

 conspicuous as to add a distinction to the position which made it difficult 

 to approach, much less to emulate. But whatever, under the circum- 

 stances, his own failings and shortcomings might prove to be, he could 

 assure them that he should not fail in trying to do his best. 



Mr. Crisp exhibited a form of camera lucida by M. Dumaige, of 

 Paris, fitted in a box with a cover, which, when closed, kept the prism 

 and mirror free from dust. Also, by the same maker, an adapter with 

 spiral springs for rapidly changing objectives, and a portable Microscope 

 in which the foot and stage were in one piece (supra, pp. 476, 487, and 

 488). 



Dr. Kibbler exhibited and described a new stand and camera, which, 

 he believed, would be found very useful for photomicrography. It had 

 been made to his design by Mr. Bailey, his idea being that it was best 



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