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MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
Annual Meeting^ Tebruary 10th, 1864. 
Report of Council, 
According to annual custom tlie Council have to make 
the following report on the progress and present state of 
the Society. 
The number of members reported at the last Annual 
Meeting was 337; since that time 27 have been elected, 
making the number 364. This number must be reduced by 
11 resignations, making a final total of 353, thus showing an 
increase of 16 on the number reported at the last anniversary. 
The Council have to congratulate the Society on the fact 
that not a single death has been reported as having taken 
place among the members during the past year. 
The library has been increased by many volumes, and the 
collection of objects has been considerably augmented by 
donations of various slides amounting to 98, one collection 
of objects illustrating the fibre of cotton and the effects of 
dyeing upon it, with a work on the same subject, presented 
by the author, Mr. Crumb, may be particularly noticed as 
being of great value and interest. The collection now con- 
sists of 1235 objects. 
The Society has also the pleasure of stating that the pro- 
mise made by Mr. T. Ross, of presenting the Society with a 
first-rate microscope, has been most amply fulfilled, and also 
that this beautiful instrument is now regubrly placed on the 
table, on the nights of meeting, for the inspection and use of 
the members. 
The J ournal has been regularly published, and has been 
circulated as usual among the members. 
