PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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MEETING 
Held on the 19th of May, 1897, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 
E. M. Nelson, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Special Meeting held on 21st of April, 1897, 
and also those of the Ordinary Meeting of the same date, were read and 
confirmed, and were signed by the President. 
Prof. Bell said they had received a letter from Dr. G. B. Do Toni, 
acknowledging the intimation of his election as an Honorary Fellow of 
the Society at the Ordinary Meeting on the 21st of April last. Dr. 
de Toni expressed his sense of the great honour conferred upon him by 
this act on the part of the Society, and returned his hearty thanks to 
the Fellows for their action in the matter. 
Prof. Bell said that amongst the donations received since the last 
meeting was a book by Dr. Van Heurck on the X Kays, for which no 
doubt the Society would return its thanks, although at present the 
X Kays were not, so far, as he knew, of any special service to the micro- 
scopist. 
Prof. Bell said that the Society had also received a very valuable 
donation from Mr. Rousselet, who had presented them with a series of 
426 slides of the Palates of Mollusca which had been given to him by 
Miss Saunders. These slides were prepared by Mr. H. M. Gwatkin, 
whose attention to the subject was known to many of the Fellows of 
the Society. This collection had been given to Mr. Kousselet with a 
request that he would bestow them where they would be most likely to 
be of service, and to do the best he could with them. He thought the 
Society would agree with him that Mr. Rousselet had fulfilled the last 
portion of the request by giving these slides to the Society. 
The President thought this was a collection likely to be of much 
value to the Society, because a number of specimens like these of the 
same class of objects was of great use to any one who was working at 
the subject for comparison. He was sure, therefore, that all present 
would join in a very hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Rousselet for placing 
them in possession of so desirable an addition to the Society’s Cabinet. 
A vote of thanks to Mr. C. F. Rousselet was then put from the chair, 
and carried by acclamation. 
The President said he regretted there was nothing else upon the 
Agenda paper for the evening, excepting an exhibition of a number of 
very excellent specimens of injections and other objects by Mr. Ernest 
Hinton. These were shown under the Microscopes upon the tables, 
and would, no doubt, be inspected by the Fellows present with great 
pleasure and interest. He thought that the descriptive labels beside 
each instrument would render any further description unnecessary to 
those who saw the objects; but he felt that their thanks were due 
to Mr. Hinton for bringing them for exhibition. He therefore moved 
