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Union, receive the Journal post-free, or an equivalent of 32s. The 

 Council recommend that after the present year (1884.) the annual 

 subscription for Foreign Fellows should not be less than 31s. Qd. 



Mevenue. — With the additions to the number of Ordinary Fellows, 

 the income of the Society has continued to increase, and the report 

 of the Treasurer, showing a total receipt of 866Z., is the most 

 satisfactory report which the Society have ever had placed before 

 them. 



Library. — Mr. Eeeves having tendered his resignation as Librarian 

 and Assistant-Secretary, the Council took into consideration the 

 question of recognizing his long services to the Society, and resolved 

 to recommend to the Annual Meeting a grant to him of 1001. out of 

 the capital funds of the Society. 



The Council selected, as Mr. Eeeves' successor, Mr. James West, 

 previously assistant in the library of the Linnean Society, and have 

 arranged that in future the Library, in place of being open from 11 

 to 4 as formerly, shall be open from 10 to 5. 



Journal. — The Journal for 1883 contained 1000 pages, the exact 

 limit fixed by the Council. The index has been further improved by 

 including in it the names of all authors whose names appear in the 

 Bibliographical lists, so that a reference to the index will alone be 

 necessary to find any paper noted during the year. In other respects 

 the Journal has been continued on the same basis as before, and every 

 care has been taken to insure that no paper or article of any im- 

 portance in Microscopy shall escape notice in the pages of the 

 Journal. 



The sales of the Journal have steadily increased notwithstanding 

 the augmentation in price, and of the second or current series only 17 

 sets remain. This places no little difficulty in the way of a satis- 

 factory adjustment of the Exchange List, which must necessarily be 

 still further curtailed so as to insure at least 25 sets being in future 

 left in the Society's hands. The Council have been reluctant at 

 present to increase the number printed, as they have felt it desirable 

 to limit as much as possible the expense of the Journal in view of 

 the probability of having to engage a paid editor on Mr. Crisp 

 relinquishing the honorary editorship. 



Papers. — The papers read during the year have been of considerable 

 interest, and have embraced a variety of subjects, including Dr. 

 Hudson's on " New Floscularice " and a " New Asplanclma," Mr. 

 Matthews' on the « Eed Mould of Barley," Prof. Abbe's on " The 

 Relation of Aperture to Power," Mr. Lovett's on " Preparing Embryo- 

 logical and other Delicate Organisms," Mr. Michael's on "The 

 Anatomy of the Oribatidse," Mr. Steam's on " The Use of In- 

 candescence Electric Lamps," Mr. Waddington's on " The Action of 

 Tannin on the Cilia of Infusoria," Messrs. Morris and Henderson's 

 on " The Eingworm Fungus," Mr. Beck's on " Cladocera of the 

 English Lakes," Mr. Squire's on a " Method for Preserving the Fresh- 

 water Medusae," and others by Prof. Bell, Mr. Crisp, Mr. Dowdeswell, 

 Dr. Maddox, and Dr. Schroder. 



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