292 Canadian Record of Science. 



Proceedings of the Montreal Microscopical 

 Society. 



This Society has been holding its regular monthly meet- 

 ings during the winter, in the library of the Natural History 

 Society. 



The first meeting in October was devoted entirely to re- 

 ceiving the statements of the Secretary-Treasurer and the 

 election of officers for the coming year. 



The President J. Stevenson Brown was re-elected and 

 Leslie J. Skelton was elected Hon. Secretary-Treasurer. 

 Papers on the following subjects have been read. 

 Nov. 10th, Illumination as Applied to the Microscope. J. 

 Stevenson Brown. 



Dec. 8th, Facts Connected with Keeping an Aquarium, 



Yery Bev. Dean Carmichael. 

 Jan. j 2th, Practical Hints about Microtomes, Wyatt Gr. 



Johnson M.D. 

 There has been a large attendance at the meetings, a con- 

 siderable influx of new members and a very general interest 

 shown in extending the usefulness and objects of the 

 society. 



Papers have been promised for the remainder of the 

 season by 



J. W. Stirling, M.D. 

 G-. P. Girdwood, M.D. 

 Wyatt G. Johnson, M.D. 



At the last meeting His Excellency Lord Stanley, was 

 elected an honorary member. 



A committee has been appointed on infusoria,and members 

 or others interested in this branch of microscopical study 

 can have their specimens classified by sending drawings and 

 descriptions to the secretary before any of the monthly 

 meetings. 



