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 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Meeting op 8th Dboembbb, 1880, at King's College, Strand, W.C, 

 James Glaisher, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of lOth November last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



Mr. Shadbolt rose to make some observations upon the aperture 

 question, but 



The Chairman reminded him that as no notice of his intended 

 communication had been given to the Secretaries, it did not appear upon 

 the Agenda paper, and it would not be possible," therefore, to take it 

 then. 



Mr. Shadbolt inquired whether free discussion was to be stifled 

 in the Society, or whether the old rules were to be regarded as still in 

 force. In his Presidency every Fellow met with a fair hearing. 



The Chairman said that he, as chairman, could not give exceptional 

 precedence to any communication of which they had not received at 

 least twenty-four hours' notice. He would, however, put it to the 

 Meeting whether Mr. Shadbolt should be heard at once, or in the 

 ordinary course of the business. — It was decided, upon a show of 

 hands, with one dissentient, to proceed with the business in the 

 order in which it appeared on the Agenda paper. 



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 doners. 



From 

 Dodel-Port, Dr. A. and Carolina. Anatomisch-Physiologi- 



scher Atlas der Botanik fiir Hoch- und Mittelschulen. 



Part 4. 6 plates. (Fol. Esslingen, 1880.) . . . . The Authors. 

 „ „ „ Text zum .... Atlas 



.... Part 4. 24 pp. (4to. Esslingen, 1880) .. ' Ditto. 



Slides with Wax Cells covered with Wliite Zinc Cement 



for Fluid Mounts Mr. W. H. Walmsley. 



Mr. John Mayall, jun., described, by means of a drawing on the 

 black-board, the fine adjustment of Mr. Crouch's histological Micro- 

 scope (see p. 114), also a new mechanical stage to be used with the 

 Tolles-Blackham Microscope (see p. 115), the chief features of which 

 were extreme thinness and the removal of the milled heads to a 

 position in which they did not project beyond the margin and so 

 interfere with the swinging substage, as was usually the case. 



The Chairman, in announcing the election of the eight gentlemen 

 who had been balloted for, said that this made up the number of new 



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