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Council. It will probably be found convenient to arrange to share a 

 meeting-room with some other societies. 



The Catalogue of the Library is now ready for distribution, and can 

 be obtained by any Fellow on application to the Librarian. The Council 

 have fixed its price at the moderate sum of Is. 



Cabinet. — An important addition has been made to the cabinet by 

 Mr. A. D, Michael's donation of 130 type-slides, illustrating his work on 

 the OribatidfB, another set of which has been deposited in the British 

 Museum. Mr. Suffolk has continued during the year his valuable revision 

 of the slide cabinet, which is now completed. The thanks of the Society 

 are due to Mr. Michael and to Mr. Suffolk for their contributions to the 

 efficiency of the cabinet. 



Bye-Laws. — As mentioned in the last Eeport, the Bye-laws of the 

 Society have been remodelled, and the Council have thought it desirable 

 that they should be issued as part of the prefatory matter of the Journal, 

 so that they may be preserved for future reference, great difficulty 

 having been experienced in obtaining copies of the former Bye-laws. 



Upon the motion of Mr. Bettany, seconded by Mr. J. J. Vesey, it 

 was resolved that the Eeport be received and adopted. 



The Treasurer presented his annual statement of accounts, and read 

 the balance-sheet, duly audited by Messrs. Guimaraens and Parsons, 

 who were elected Auditors at the preceding meeting. (See p. 317.) 



Upon the motion of Mr. A. D. Michael, seconded by Mr. Ingpen, the 

 adoption of this Eeport, together with a vote of thanks to the Treasurer 

 for his services during the past year, was duly passed. 



The President then read his Annual Address and exhibited a number 

 of large transparencies of foreign rotifers and other objects, which were 

 greatly admired by the Fellows present. 



Mr. James Glaisher said he rose to propose that a very hearty vote 

 of thanks be given to the President for the most interesting and valuable 

 address to which they had just had the pleasure of listening, and also for 

 the exhibition of drawings by which they had all been so much interested. 

 With regard to the address, he could only say that it contained matter 

 which would afford them much profitable thought in their studies 

 at home. He had also put them under a further obligation when he 

 said that their Journal was so full of matters relating to the progress of 

 microscopical science that it was no longer possible to find materials for 

 a President's Address by a detail of what had been done during the year, 

 and that therefore they were to have in the future addresses which would 

 enlarge their knowledge upon special subjects, instead of a repetition of 

 facts with which the Journal had already made them acquainted. He 

 felt that the Society was deeply indebted to the President for his address, 

 and he had the greatest pleasure in moving that their hearty thanks be 

 given him for it. 



Prof. Bell said he should be very glad to second the vote of thanks 

 for the most instructive, and, he might also add, entertaining, presidential 

 address to which they had just been listening. It was full of matter for 

 reflection, and he had been especially struck hy the concluding j)aragraph, 

 which breathed so entirely the spirit in which they ought to attack the 



