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“ Tour President and some members of the Council would have 
preferred that the Society should issue its own proceedings and 
transactions in a handsome form, and without the addition of any 
other matter ; hut they did not see their way to dissociate them- 
selves entirely from all arrangements that had been made by their 
predecessors, and which had been many years in force. 
“ For a long time the Fellows had been accustomed to receive, in 
connection with their own proceedings, microscopical information 
drawn from various sources, and inquiries led your Council to 
believe that any changes involving a diminution of information 
would be repugnant to the wishes of the majority of the Fellows. 
They therefore endeavoured to make arrangements by which the 
Society would be a clear gainer, in the quantity as well as in the 
quality of the matter supplied. 
“ There was another reason which influenced them in this deci- 
sion, and that was a desire to establish useful and friendly rela- 
tions with other excellent Microscopical Societies, both in the 
metropolis and scattered throughout the country. The mass of 
matter brought before all these bodies would preclude the possi- 
bility of combining it all in one publication of reasonable dimen- 
sions, but some record might be given of the most interesting 
facts contained in their papers, and a journal sanctioned by the 
Society, and thus bringing to a focus information that had hitherto 
been so scattered as to be practically beyond the reach of most 
students, would render important service to the scientific world. 
“ In reference to the third point of inquiry, it was deemed essen- 
tial that the Society should have a copyright in an important 
portion of the title of any publication in which its transactions 
&c., might appear, and that the proprietors of the journal in which 
they were published should only be at liberty to use such portion 
of the title so long as an agreement to that effect between him 
and the Society might subsist, and that the Society should have 
a voice in the appointment of an editor, whose duty it would be 
to place himself in intimate communication with it and to pro- 
mote its interests. 
“ It was thought proper that the proprietors of the ‘ Quarterly 
Journal of Microscopical Science’ should have ample opportunity 
for making any offer to the Society complying with the preceding 
requisitions ; but as they positively declined, attention was turned 
in other directions, and an arrangement was made with Mr. 
Robert Hardwicke, in conformity with all the Society’s stipula- 
itons, for the issue of the Monthly Journal, to commence on the 
1st of January, 18G9, to be editM by Professor Lawson, M.D., 
and to contain, in addition to the matter furnished by the Society, 
an ample digest of British and Foreign Histological Research and 
Microscopical Intelligence. Two monthly parts of the new pub- 
lication have now been issued. 
“ The cost to the Society for 450 copies of the new Journal will 
be £20 per month, and additional copies will be charged Is. each. 
By this arrangement the Fellows will receive about twice as much 
