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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Meeting of 19th December, 1894, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 
The President (A. D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the meeting of November 21st, 1894, were read and 
confirmed, and were signed by the President. 
The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 
since the last meeting was read, and the thanks of the Society were 
given to the Donors : — 
From 
2 Compressors Mr. T. V. Hodgson. 
4 Slides of Microscopic Euling Mr. H. J. Grayson. 
Notice was given from the chair that the next meeting would be 
made special for the purpose of suspending the Bye-law No. 36, 
in order to enable the present President to be re-elected for another 
year. 
The following Nominations were submitted by the Council for 
election as Officers and Council of the Society during the ensuing 
year : — 
President — Albert D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S. 
Vice-Presidents — Lionel S. Beale, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. ; 
Richard G. Hebb, Esq., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. ; Edward Milles Nelson, 
Esq. ; Thomas H. Powell, Esq. 
Treasurer — William Thomas Suffolk, Esq. 
Secretaries — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., and Rev. W. H. Dallinger, 
LL.D., F.R.S. 
Twelve other Members of Council — Thomas Duncan Aldous, Esq. ; 
Conrad Beck, Esq.; Alfred W. Bennett, Esq., M.A., B.Sc., F.L.S.; 
Robert Braithwaite, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.S., F.L.S. ; Rev. Edmund Carr, 
M.A., F.R.Met.S. ; Frank Crisp, Esq., LL.B., B.A., Y.P. and Treas. L.S. ; 
Edward Dadswell, Esq. ; George 0. Karop, Esq., M.R.C.S. ; Charles F. 
Rousselet, Esq. ; Henry Clifton Sorby, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S. ; John Jewell 
Yezey, Esq. ; Thomas Charters White, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.D.S. 
Mr. E. M. Nelson read the following report of the result of his 
examination of the slides of micro-ruling mentioned in the list of dona- 
tions : — 
« I have examined with much interest the bands ruled by Mr. H. J. 
Grayson of Melbourne. The ruling seems to be very perfect, and in- 
equalities in spacing, often seen in Robert’s plates, could not be detected. 
The tenth band on the closer ruled plate was resolved ; another similar 
plate was too faintly ruled for resolution in the higher bands. Both the 
coarser ruled plates were of course completely resolved, but one was 
