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words in Bye-law 56, “ and of such other matter as the Council 
may determine,” be omitted. He wished to confine the Council 
to the publication of the transactions of the Society alone. 
February 10th, 1869. 
This being the Annual Meeting of the Society, the Treasurer’s 
report was read ; also the reports of the Cabinet and Library 
Committee. The President then delivered his address. He first 
gave a short biography of three of the members of the Society 
who had died during the preceding year. They were Nathaniel 
Bagster Ward, Esq., F.R.S., formerly Treasurer of the Micro- 
scopical Society of London ; William Bird Herapath, M.D., 
F.R.S., of Bristol; and Henry Gr. Wright, M.D., of London. 
The other deceased Fellows, who were only named, were Henry 
Lidden, Esq., of Rochester; John W. Griesbacb, Esq., of London ; 
William Ralph Milner, Esq., surgeon, of Wakefield ; and Henry 
Smith, Esq., of Clapton. The following remarks with regard to 
the new journal were made : 
“ The Society was informed in my anniversary address, delivered 
last year, that the Council had decided upon terminating the 
agreement for the publication of its proceedings and transac- 
tions in the ‘ Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.’ In 
conformity with this intention the connection of the Society with 
that journal ceased with the publication of the last October 
number. 
“ In devising fresh plans the following points had to be con- 
sidered : 
“ 1st. Whether the proceedings and transactions of the Society 
should be issued by themselves, or in connection with similar 
matter derived from other sources. 
“ 2nd. Whether the publication should be monthly instead of 
quarterly, as heretofore. 
“ 3rd. If the Society should hand over its papers and proceed- 
ings for publication in a journal that was not entirely its own 
property, in what way its legitimate influence and control might 
be preserved. 
“ 4th. The best means of obtaining for the Society some advan- 
tage proportionate to the value of the matter it might place at 
the disposal of a publisher, and for its action and influence in 
securing and promoting the sale of any publication with which it 
might be connected. 
“After much deliberation it-iras considered that the interest of 
the Society would be best promoted by connecting the publica- 
tion of its own transactions and proceedings with a record of the 
principal microscopical researches laid before other societies, or 
embodied in works not generally accessible. It was also thought 
desirable that the publication should be monthly, as ensuring the 
speedy communication to the scientific world of new facts and 
discoveries contained in papers read before the Society. 
