Microscopical and Natural History Section. 319 



Annual Report of the Council of the Microscopical and 

 Natural History Section. 



The Section has held the usual number of monthly 

 meetings during the session, but lately the attendance has 

 somewhat fallen off. With so small a number of members 

 and associates on the roll, it is hardly to be expected that 

 there should be a large average attendance, and it seems as 

 though the only remedy for this state of affairs would be 

 that a special effort should be made to induce a greater 

 number of the microscopists, naturalists, botanists, etc., of 

 this district to join the Section. The inducements the 

 Society offers to such students are very great. It has a first- 

 rate set of microscopes and accessories, a large collection of 

 microscopical specimens, and a library containing sets of 

 the memoirs and transactions of most of the learned societies 

 of Europe and America ; besides many valuable books on 

 natural history, botany, etc. It is a pity that these should not 

 be made more use of. It may be that these advantages are 

 not sufficiently known, and it is probably needful for the 

 members and associates of the Section to bestir themselves 

 and do a bit of recruiting. The Society prints in its Memoirs 

 any original papers of merit that may be submitted, and 

 owing to its exchanges with all the principal scientific 

 societies, this gives a wide publicity. 



The following is a list of members and associates of the 

 Section : — 



Members : — Thos. Alcock, M.D., J. J. Ashworth, Chas. 

 Bailey, F.L.S., Walter Edward Barratt, John Barrow, 

 John Boyd, Henry Brogden, F.G.S., Alfred Brown, M.D.» 

 Samuel Cottam, F.R.A.S., Edward Coward, Robert Ellis 

 Cunliffe, R. D. Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S., Prof. W. Boyd 

 Dawkins, M.A.,'F.R.S., F.G.S., Hastings C. Dent, F.L.S., 

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