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first and ablest historian of the microscope, its structure and 
uses, he has pre-eminent claims to be the President of the 
Microscopical Society of London. To this post he would 
long ago have been elected, had your wishes alone been con- 
sulted ; but his devotion to science has entailed upon him one 
of its too frequent accompaniments, and that is ill health ; 
and this alone is the plea that he has put in against your wish 
to make him your President on this occasion. I am sure you 
will join me in wishing that he may be speedily restored to 
good health and strength, and that he may never be deterred 
from occupying your Presidential chair by the presence of 
those bodily infirmities which accompany disease. 
The Society then proceeded to ballot for officers and four 
members of Council in the usual manner, when the scruti- 
neers having made their report, the following were declared 
duly elected : 
President — Professor Quekett. Treasurer — N. B. Ward, 
Esq. Seci'etaries — G. E. Blenkins, Esq.; M. S. Legg, Esq. 
Four Members of Council — Dr. Millar; J. R. Mummery, 
Esq.; Dr. Wallich; S. C. Whitbread, Esq. ; — in the place 
of A. Brady, Esq.; J. Glaisher, Esq.; H. Pertgal, Jun., 
Esq.; J. H. Roberts, Esq.; who retire in accordance with 
the regulations of the Society. 
The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to Dr. 
Lankester, for his services as President during the past two 
years. 
On the Amceboid Conditions of Volvox Globator. 
By J. Braxton Hicks, M.D., Lond. F.L.S., &c. 
(Read March 14tli, 1860.) 
The effect of the attention paid of late to the histology 
of the lower tribes both of the animal and the vegetable 
kingdom has been to lessen the number not only of species, 
but of whole groups, and to rob zoology of many of its sub- 
jects. Perhaps this is best shown in the case of the zoospores^ 
