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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
AN ORDINARY MEETING 
of the Society was held at 20 Hanover Square, W., on 
Wednesday, May 17th, 1922, Professor F. J. Cheshire, 
President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read, confirmed, and 
signed by the President. 
The nomination papers were read of three Candidates for Fellowship. 
New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows of the 
Society : — Mr. Arthur Benjamin Bradley, F.C.S. 
Mr. James Joseph Jackson. 
Mr. Arthur Mackay. 
Mr. J. R. Norman. 
Donations were reported as follows : — 
Mr. S. E. Dowdy — “ The Microscope.” 
M. Charles Janet — “ Considerations sur l’Etre Vivant.” 
Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. — • 
“ Practical Plant Biology.” (H. H. Dixon.) 
Messrs. Percival Marshall & Co. — 
“ The Beginner’s Guide to-the Microscope.” (C. E. Heath.) 
Thanks were accorded to the donors. 
Pond-Life Exhibition. — The President then called upon Mr. 
Scourfield to make some observations on the Annual Exhibition of 
Microscopic Pond-Life which had been arranged by Fellows of the 
Society and Members of the Quekett Microscopical Club. 
Mr. Scourfield said that in his introductory remarks in connexion 
with the Pond-Life Exhibitions he had emphasized the importance from 
a number of different points of view of the study of living fresh-water 
organisms. This was not so much because being a Pond-Life enthusiast 
himself he thought that there was “ nothing like leather,” but rather 
that the living material most easily obtainable by the majority of 
microscopists was obviously the minute life of our lakes, ponds, and 
ditches. Personally he would be very glad to see regular exhibitions of 
other living microscopic organisms, and especially of living marine 
organisms, but he was afraid that the difficulties in the way of obtaining: 
