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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
MEETING 
Held on the 17th of February, 1897, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 
The President (E. M. Nelson, Esq.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting held 20fch of January last 
were read and confirmed, and were signed by the President. 
The Secretary said he regretted that the February number of the 
Journal was not ready for issue to the Fellows that evening. The delay 
was due to the impossibility of getting the plates as early as necessary, 
but he believed these would be delivered at once, so that the Journal 
would probably be ready for delivery by the following Monday. 
The List of Donations to the Society (exclusive of exchanges and 
reprints) received since the last meeting was read, and the thanks of 
the Society were given to the donors. 
From 
A Slide-carrier for the Lantern The President. 
Dr. E. B. Wilson, The Cell in Development and Inheritance. (Svo, 
New York, 18U6) The Publishers. 
The President said that on the occasion of Mr. Michael’s very able 
address to the Society at their last meeting, be could hardly help having 
his attention attracted to the slide-carrier, and the unsatisfactory way 
in which it worked in the lantern, and he had therefore much pleasure 
in presenting to the Society a new carrier, which he hoped would be 
found to work more smoothly and with less trouble to the operator. 
Prof. Bell said he should like to call attention to a book included in the 
list of donations, for which the Society was indebted to Messrs. Macmillan, 
‘ The Cell in Development and Inheritance, 5 by Dr. E. B. Wilson. This 
was the fourth volume of a very interesting series of biological works 
now being issued by the Columbia University. It was exceedingly 
interesting and important to have a compendious account of all that was 
known at present about the cell ; but though of great value now, at the 
rate at which researches were being made in these subjects, it was quite 
