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MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
February Sth, 1860. 
Dr. Lankester, President, in the Chair. 
Report of Council. 
" In accordance with annual custom, the Council have to 
make the following report : 
The number of members reported 
at the last anniversary was . . . 276 
There have been since elected . 28 
Making a total of .... 304 
This number has to be reduced by — 
Deceased 7 
Withdrawn 12 = 19 
Leaving a final total of . . . 285 as the present 
number of members of the Society. 
'*^The Library has been increased by about 160 works, 
including serials — chiefly presents ; 77 of them consist of cata- 
logues of objects of natural history, presented by the Trustees 
of the British Museum ; 14 others have been purchased with 
a fund arising out of the sale, to members, of the early ' Trans- 
actions,^ at a reduced price, which fund it is intended shall 
be applied solely to the supplying the Library with such 
works as it may be thought desirable to add to it. There 
still remains a considerable surplus available for this pur- 
pose. * 
The collection of objects also has received many additions. 
^' The arrangements for the distribution of the ^ Journal ' 
continue the same as last year.^^ 
