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gree; where it isobserved to any marked extent among the apparently 
healthy, it is shown to be accompanied by other neurotic symptoms. 
The test requires considerable attention on the part of the subject, and 
an apparent contraction of the field on the first trial often proves to be 
due to a lack of adjustment of the attention. The existence of genuine 
contraction can be affirmed only after repeated trials when the subject 
has become accustomed to the methods and haslearned to maintain his 
attention properly.—H. ©. W. . 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Zoological Society of London.—The sixty-eighth anniversary 
meeting of this Society was held at their offices,3 Hanover Square, W. 
In the absence of the President, the Chair was taken by Dr. Edward 
Hamilton, Vice-President, who was supported by Lord Medway, Sir 
Hugh Low, General Trevor, Dr. Henry Woodward, F. R.S., Lt.-Col. 
H. H. Godwin-Austen, F. R. S., and many other Fellows of the Society. 
After the Auditors Report had been read, and a vote of thanks ac- 
corded to them, and some other preliminary business had been trans- 
acted, the Report of the Council on the proceedings of the Society during 
the past year was read by Mr. P. L. Sclater, F. R.S., the Secretary. It 
stated that the number of Fellows on the 1st of January, 1897, was 
3,098, showing a net increase of 71 members during the year 1896. The 
number of new Fellows that joined the Society in 1896 was 207, which 
was the largest number of elections that had taken place in any year 
since 1877. 
The total receipts of the Society for 1896 had amounted to £27,081- 
.10.4, which was £123.1.3 more than the very successful year 1895. 
The ordinary expenditure in 1896 had amounted to £23,788.1.2, which 
was an increase of £327.4.4 over that of the year 1895. Besides this a 
sum of £2617.15.0 had been paid and charged to extraordinary ex- 
penditure, of which amount £2600 had been paid on account of the 
construction of the new house for ostriches and cranes. A further sum 
of £1000 had also been transferred to the Deposit Account, leaving a 
balance of £1066.15.4 to be carried forward for the benefit of the present 
year. The usual scientific meetings had been held during the year 1896, 
and a large number of valuable communications had been received 
upon every branch of zoology. These had been published in the annual 
volume of “ Proceedings,” which contained 1110 pages, illustrated by 52 
