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£]8; to which should be added £7 for Subscriptions due, wbich must be deemed 

 lo be bad debts, making a total deficiency of £25. 



In drawing attention to this matter, the President stated that the Council saw no 

 reason for despondency, for the excess of expenditure over income was due in a great 

 measure to the unavoidable outlay in removing from Bond Street, and fitting up the 

 Library, Museum, &c, in the new rooms ; the removal itself being forced upon the 

 Society by circumstances over which it had no control, and they therefore recommend- 

 ed that as the adverse balance was the result of accidental events, it should be met by 

 a general and special subscription among the Members, in order that the operations 

 of the Society might not be impeded. 



The President having appointed two Scrutineers, the ballots took place, when it 

 appeared that Messrs. E. Newman, W. W. Saunders, A. F. Sheppard, and S. War- 

 ing, were elected into the Council, in the room of Messrs. F, Smith, H. T. Stainton, 

 J. J. Weir, and W. Yarrell ; also, that the following were elected to the respective 

 offices: — Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., Z.S. &c, President; S. Stevens, Esq., 

 F.L.S., Treasurer ; J. W. Douglas and W. Wing, Secretaries. 



The President delivered an Address on the state of the Society, and the progress of 

 Entomology generally during the past year ; for which, and his services to the Socie- 

 ty, the Members passed an unanimous vote of thanks, and he was requested to allow 

 his Address to be printed. 



Votes of thanks were also passed to the Treasurer, Secretaries, and retiring Mem- 

 bers of the Council. 



The President announced that the Council had received three essays, in competi- 

 tion for the prize of £5 offered by the Society for the best essay on the duration of life 

 in the male, female, and worker of the honey-bee ; that they had adopted the report of 

 the Committee to which they had been referred, namely, that the essay bearing the 

 motto, " In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria" was very able and worthy of the prize ; 

 and upon the accompanying note being opened, the author was found to be Mr. Des- 

 borough, of Stamford. Mr. Desborough being in attendance, was then presented with 

 the amount of the prize. 



The unsuccessful essays will be delivered to the authors, upon the presentation of 

 their order to do so, accompanied by a copy of the motto adopted by them, the enve- 

 lopes containing their names not having been opened. — /. W. D. 



Proceedings of the Microscopical Society. 



June 23, 1852. — Geo. Jackson, Esq., in the chair. 



A paper by Professor Williamson, entitled " Further Contributions to the Struc- 

 ture of Volvox globator," was read. 



The author's views with respect to the cellular nature of certain appearances in 

 Volvox globator, as detailed by him in the ' Transactions of the Philosophical Society 

 of Manchester,' having been controverted by Mr. Busk iu a paper lately read to this 

 Society, and as subsequent researches have, in Mr. Williamson's opinion, confirmed 

 his former statements as to the cellular structure of that organism ; he considered it 

 necessary to lay before the Society the present paper, containing some account of the 



