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After this address, as no one seconded the resolution, Dr. 
Lankester left the room. 
Mr. Glaisher then explained that the Council had given the 
subject of the publication of the ‘ Transactions ’ the most careful 
and anxious consideration, that Dr. Lankester had never assisted 
them in their deliberations, and that eventually they had entered 
into arrangements with Mr. Hardwicke for the issue of the 
‘Monthly Microscopical Journal. 1 Mr. Henry Slack, F.G.S., 
Secretary, said he regretted that Dr. Lankester had left the room 
so hastily, ere there was time to reply to his assertions. He 
stated that, so far from Dr. Lankester having an interest in the 
Society, he had been present at but three meetings during the last 
four years, 2 and that he never recognised the principle of separate 
publication of the ‘ Transactions ’ during the sixteen years in 
which the ‘Transactions’ were issued in the ‘ Quarterly Journal 
of Microscopical Science,’ of which he is the editor. Finally, 
Mr. Slack read passages from a letter received last year from 
Dr. Lankester, in which it is urged that the separate issue of 
the Society’s ‘ Transactions ’ would bring about the resignation 
of many of the Fellows, and was therefore not to he thought of. 
The following gentlemen were then elected office bearers for the 
ensuing year. 
President— Rev. J. B. Beade, M.A., F.B.S. 
Vice-Presidents. — Jas. Glaisher, F.B.S. ; L. S. Beale, M.D., 
F.B.S. ; W. B. Carpenter, M.D., F.B.S. ; G. C. Wallich, M.D., 
F.L.S. 
Treasurer. — B. Mestayer, Esq. 
Secretaries . — H. J. Slack, F.G.S. ; Jabez Hogg, F.L.S. 
Council . — Arthur Farre, M.D., F.B.S.; Arthur E. Durham, 
F.B.C.S.; H. Lawson, M.D.; James Murie, M.D., F.L.S.; Charles 
Tyler, F.L.S. ; Charles Brooke, M.A., F.B.S. ; W. H. luce, F.L.S.; 
Henry Lee, F.L.S.; Ellis G. Lobb, Esq.; John Miller, M.D., F.L.S.; 
Major Owen, F.L.S. ; F. H. Wenhain, C.E. 
Wednesday , March 10th, 1869. 
Bev. J. B. Beade, President, in the Chair. 
Among the presents to the Society, a special vote of thanks 
was passed to Mrs. Clarke, Whitby, for twelve beautifully 
mounted slides of the fructification of seaweeds, and to Mr. 
Collins for a -J-inch object-glass of small angular aperture, con- 
structed, as suggested by Dr. Carpenter, for special use of the 
binocular. 
1 Neither Dr. Lankester norMr.Busk were ever invited to any deliberation 
of the Society on the subject. — Eds. 
2 Although this statement is not correct, the absence of both Mr. Busk and 
Dr. Lankester can be easily accounted for, especially when the new bye-laws 
excluded them, as being Presidents, from a seat in the Council. — Eds. 
