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REPORT 
OP 
THE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
The Microscopical Society of London held their Thirteenth 
Annual Meeting, February 11th, 1853, — George Jackson, 
Esq., President, in the Chair, — when the following Reports 
were read ; — 
1. Report of Council. — According to annual custom the 
Council have to make the following Report on the state and 
progress of the Society during the past year. 
The number of members reported at the last anniversary 
was 183, including six associates and honorary members. 
Since that time there have been elected thirty : making the 
number 213. This number must, however, be reduced, by 
three deceased and nine withdrawn, giving a total of 201 as 
the present number of members, and showing an increase of 
nineteen upon the number reported at the last anniversary. 
The Council have also to report that a proposal liaving 
been made by the Editors of a new Microscopical Journal 
to publish the Transactions of the Society in that work, 
the Council have acceded to that proposal ; and the first 
two parts of the ' Quarterly Microscopical Journal ' have been 
published, containing the Transactions. These, if required, 
may be obtained separately by members of the Society with- 
out charge ; and the whole publication may be had by the 
payment of 4o. per annum extra. 
Several new works have been added to the Library, as well 
as many new objects to the Cabinet ; and there are also in 
the possession of the Society various drawings and diagrams, 
relating principally to the papers read before the Society, to- 
gether with copies of the several parts of the Transactions. 
2. Report of Auditors. — The receipts and payments have 
been as follows : — 
