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the cell looks when finished. I have also enclosed you some of the 
photographed bottoms. I cannot name the Foraminifera for you, as yet 
I have only two works on Foraminifera. The two mounted slides you 
can keep for your own cabinet, if they are of sufficient interest to you. 
If they do not interest you, give them to some of your friends who would 
care to have them. The wooden cells are turned off on a small turn- 
table, to which I have attached a small *75° motor, requiring 4 volts 
and 2 amperes, and with a sharp knife turn out the cell.” 
The Chairman thought these would be found worth looking at, as 
the mounting was most ingeniously done, and was likely to be very 
useful to those who were working on the subject. 
Prof. Bell thought that in these days of advertising, one of the best 
donations might be a good advertisement, and as such, perhaps, he might 
call attention to a paragraph appearing in the Echo of the 11th inst. with 
reference to the Society, the correctness of which would no doubt be 
appreciated. It read as follows : — “ On Wednesday next the annual 
meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society will be held at the Society’s 
office in Burlington Street. The most interesting feature of this meeting 
will be papers c On the Latest Discoveries in Science with the Aid of 
the Microscope,’ by Professors Farmer, Massee, and Reid ” ! 
Prof. Bell said that since their last meeting the Society had the 
great misfortune to lose by death five of their Honorary Fellows, 
four of whom he knew personally ; the fifth, Mr. Kitton, he did not 
remember to have met : — Prof. W. C. Williamson would long be re- 
membered in connection with his valuable works on fossil plants ; 
the Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley, the first man of science to be ad- 
mitted into the Privy Council, whose work needed no comment from 
him; his old friend and frequent correspondent, Prof. Sven Loven, 
of Stockholm, who might worthily be put with such men as Yan 
Bcneden, Siebold, Owen, and the elder Milne-Edwards, who had done so 
much to bring modern zoology to its present point ; and Prof. Louis 
Pasteur, whose services to his country, to mankind at large, and to 
animals were of so remarkable a kind that it had been well said that 
he had added more to the wealth of France than any financier which 
that country had ever produced. These vacancies in their list of 
Honorary Fellows the Council j>roposed to fill up — at least, so far as 
four of them were concerned — by nominating the following : — Herrman 
Graf zu Solms-Laubach, Dr. Anton Dohrn, Prof. Gustav Retzius, and 
Prof. Camillo Golgi. The vacancy caused by the death of Pasteur they 
proposed to leave unfilled for the present ; the other names would be 
suspended in the usual way, and would be balloted for at their next 
meeting. 
By request of the Council, he had sent a letter of condolence to 
Mrs. Huxley, which she had acknowledged. 
Dr. Dallinger said that the late Mr. Frederick Kitton had long been 
a Fellow of the Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1876. 
His chief study was that of the Diatomaceae, his interest in which was 
not of the dilettante kind. He was a very earnest worker in this 
