372 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Journal. 



The volume of the Journal for the past year has been issued on 

 the same basis as the previous one. The modifications proposed in 

 the arrangement for the future have been referred to in the preface 

 which accompanied the December number. 



As a desire has been expressed that new instruments and appara- 

 tus shall, as far as possible, be illustrated as well as described, the 

 number of woodcuts has been latterly increased, an increase which 

 it is proposed to maintain in future, although this necessarily involves 

 some limitation of the plates. The result, however, will be that the 

 expenditure available for illustrating each number of the Journal will 

 be fairly apportioned between the plates which accompany communi- 

 cations relating to Natural History, and the woodcuts which deal with 

 Microscopical matters. 



Whilst there appears to be no limit to the willingness of Mr. 

 Crisp to provide material for the Journal, the Council are of opinion 

 that it will be wise to limit the number of pages to be published 

 annually to a maximum of 1000. The Council have come to this con- 

 clusion from the fact that at the present time the Society have the 

 benefit of honorary editorshij), but if Mr. Crisp should relinquish 

 that position, it w^ould in all probability be found necessary to make 

 some provision for a paid editor. 



The warmest acknowledgments of the Society are due to Mr. 

 Crisp for the continuation of his services diu'ing the past year, as 

 well as to the Associate Editors and the Publication Committee. 



Meeting of 9th Maech, 1881, at King's College, Stband, W.C, 

 The President (Professor P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S.) in the 

 Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 9 th February 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. 



From 



Hinde, G. J. — Fossil Sponge Spicules from the Upper Chalk 

 found in the interior of a Single Flint-stone from 

 Norfolk. 83 pp., 5 plat(iS. (Svo. Munich, 1880.) .. The Author. 



Griffith Club Microscope Mr. E.H. Griffith. 



Mr. Crisp called special attention to the donation from Mr. Hinde, 

 and one from Dr. N. Pringsheim, being a reprint of his paper on 

 Chlorophyll, from the 'Jahrbuch f. Wiss. Botanik,' with coloured 

 plates. 



Also to a new portable Microscope, devised by Mr. E. H. Griffith, 

 of New York State, and known as the " Grifiith Club Microscope," 

 which he thought reflected great credit ujion the ingenuity of its 

 designer in several respects (see p. 293). 



