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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Mr. Cuzner moved, and Mr. Bowtell seconded, that a very hearty 
vote of thanks be tendered to the Honorary Officers and Members of 
the Council for their services to the Society during the past year. 
Carried. Dr. Murray responded. 
The President appointed Mr. A. W. Sheppard and Mr. Ludford to 
act as Scrutineers, and afterwards announced the result of the ballot for 
the election of Officers and Council for the ensuing year as follows : — 
President. — Frederic J. Cheshire, C.B.E., F.Inst.P. 
Vice-Presidents. — Arthur Earland ; J. W. H. Eyre, M.D., M.S., 
F.R.S.Edin. ; T. H. Hiscott ; David J. Scourfield, F.Z.S. 
Treasurer. — Cyril F. Hill. 
Secretaries. — Joseph E. Barnard, F.Inst.P. ; James A. Murray, M.D. 
Ordinary Members of Council. — S. C. Akehurst ; W. E. Watson 
Baker ; S. H. Browning, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. ; M. T. Denne, O.B.E. ; 
Aubrey H. Drew, D.Sc. ; F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S., F.Z.S. ; 
E. Heron-Alien, F.R.S. ; R. J. Ludford, B.Sc., F.R.H.S. ; Robert 
Paulson, F.L.S. ; E. J. Sheppard ; Clarence Tierney, M.S., D.Sc. ; 
Joseph Wilson. 
Librarian. — F. Martin Duncan, F.R.P.S., F.Z.S. 
Editors. — J. W. H. Eyre, M.D., M.S., F.R.S.Edin. ; Charles Singer, 
M.A., M.D. 
Curator of Instruments. — W. E. Watson Baker. 
Curator of Slides— E. J. Sheppard. 
Curator of Metallurgical Specimens. — F. Ian G. Rawlins. 
A vote of thanks to the Scrutineers was moved from the Chair and 
carried. 
Professor Cheshire was then installed as President, and thanked 
the Fellows of the Society for the very great honour they had conferred 
upon him by electing him to the Presidency of the Society. The 
primary function of the Society was the national care of the microscope, 
its design, its construction, its production and its use. The present 
moment was a very critical one, and there was a very great work for 
the Society to do. The vital question as to whether British manu- 
facturers should produce microscopes to compete successfully in the 
world’s markets with foreign competitors might be decided in the near 
future, and the Society ought to have a great deal to do and say in 
deciding that question. 
Professor John Eyre, M.D., M.S., F.R.S. E., then delivered the 
Presidential Address. “Microscopy and Oyster Culture.” 
Lieut.-Col. Clibborn moved : “ That the best thanks of this meeting 
be accorded to Professor Eyre for his Presidential Address, and that he 
be asked to allow it to be printed in the Journal of the Society.” 
