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PEOCEEDINaS OF SOCIETIES. 
BoYAL Microscopical Society. — Anniversary Meeting. 
King's College, February 3, 1875. 
Charles Brooke, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
A list of donations to the Society since the last meeting was read 
by the Secretary, and the thanks of the Fellows were voted to the 
donors. 
Before proceeding to ballot for the election of Officers and Council 
for the ensuing year, the President requested the meeting to elect two 
gentlemen to act as Scrutineers. 
Mr. Gay — proposed by Mr. Curties, and seconded by Mr. Coppock 
— and Mr. Bevington — proposed by Mr. Hinton, and seconded by Mr. 
Moginie — were then elected Scrutineers in the usual way. 
The Secretary read the Treasurer's Annual Statement of Accounts, 
which had been duly audited ; also the Annual Eeport of the Council 
upon the proceedings of the past year, and the present position of the 
Society. 
The Secretary announced that the Assistant-Secretary exhibited in 
the room a most interesting slide of Foraminifera from the river Dee, 
near Chester, mounted and kindly lent for the occasion by Mr. J. D. 
Liddall, of Chester. This slide contained no less than sixty-six 
species, separated from each other by black cells, each of which was 
numbered. There was also exhibited by the Society a slide, sent by 
Mr. Martin, of the anthers of a butterfly orchis on the proboscis of a 
butterfly, illustrative of Darwin on the fertilization of orchids. Atten- 
tion was also called to several numbers of a new and important work 
upon Diatomaceae, which had been kindly sent for the inspection of 
the Fellows, by Mr. Hardwicke. The title of the work was the 
' Atlas of the Diatomacese,' and it was edited by Adolph Schmidt, 
assisted by Messrs. Griindler, Grunow, Janesch, Weisflog, and Witt. 
The Scrutineers having handed in the result of the ballot. 
The President announced that the following gentlemen had been 
duly elected as Officers and Council of the Society for the ensuing 
year : 
President. — * Henry Clifton Sorby, F.K.S. 
Vice-Presidents. — Robert Braithwaite, M.D., F.L.S. ; *Charles 
Brooke, M. A., F.R.S. ; John Millar, L.E.C.P., F.L.S. ; *William B. 
Carpenter, M.D., F.E.S. 
Treasurer. — John Ware Stephenson, F.E.A.S. 
Secretaries.~B.emj J. Slack, F.G.S. ; Charles Stewart, M.E.C.S., 
F.L.S. 
Council. — Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A. ; John E. Ingpen, Esq. ; 
Samuel J. Mclntire, Esq.; Henry Lee, F.L.S.; William T. Loy, 
Esq. ; Henry Lawson, M.D. ; *John Matthews, M.D. ; *George Shad- 
bolt, Esq.; Charles Tyler, F.L.S.; *Frederic H.Ward, M.E.C.S. ; 
*Francis H. Wenham, C.E. ; *Charles F. White, Esq. 
* Those with an asterisk before their names are new members. 
