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matter in the course of each year as was supplied under the late 
arrangements, and they will have a monthly publication without 
materially adding to the expense heretofore incurred by the 
Society.” 1 
The address then proceeded to give an abstract of the papers 
read during the past year at the Society’s meetings. The fol- 
lowing paragraph with regard to the Quekett is a graceful ad- 
mission on the part of the President that the original apprehensions 
with regard to the Quekett Club were entirely unfounded : 
“ In the first year of my presidency a Microscopical Society 
was founded, under the presidency of Dr. Lankester, with the 
title of the ‘ Quekett Club.’ This society has progressed most 
satisfactorily, and is progressing to increasing usefulness, under 
the presidency of Mr. Durham.” 
For the first time in its history the Society has come to a 
standstill. The President says — 
“At the last year’s anniversary our numerical strength was 
452. During the year the number of elections have been 21. 
"We have lost 7 by death, 7 by resignation, and 7 expelled. Our 
present numbers are therefore 452 ; of these 93 are compounders. 
Thus the Society is flourishing; but its annual income is too 
near to the necessary annual expenditure, and all disbursements 
will require a careful consideration of the Council, so that our 
prosperity may continue.” 
The thanks of the meeting having been given to the President 
for his address, Dr. Lankester rose to propose the alteration of 
Bye-law 56, of which he had given notice at the previous meeting. 
He said, “ Mr. President, I should have been glad that any other 
member of the Society should have proposed this resolution 
rather than myself, as I am afraid my motive for doing so will be 
liable to misunderstanding. My reason for proposing the alte- 
ration of Bye-law 56 has arisen out of my anxiety that the 
Society at large should have an opportunity of expressing its 
opinion on a subject alluded to by the President in his address — 
the establishment of a new ‘ Journal of Microscopical Science ’ in 
connection with this Society. I should have been glad could 
your opinion have been obtained directly on this subject, but as 
the bye-law in question gives the Council the power of not 
only publishing the ‘ Transactions ’ of your Society, but of “ such 
1 Since the above address was delivered, the following notice has been 
issued to the Fellows of the Society : — “ By the new arrangements made for 
the publication of the Society’s Proceedings and Transactions in the 
‘Monthly Microscopical Journal,’ you will receive in the course of the year 
about twice the quantity of matter supplied upon the old system, but the 
expense of postage is necessarily increased. I am therefore directed to 
inform you that ou its issue at the commencement of each month, a copy of 
the ‘Monthly Microscopical Journal’ will be ready for delivery, at the Society’s 
rooms, to any one whom you may authorise to receive it, or it will be sent to 
you for twelve months, by post, if you will have the kindness to give me 
directions to that effect, accompanied by two shillings’ worth of postage 
stamps.” 
