PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
tliis resemblance was rather striking, and would seem to point to a 
closer relationship between the two forms than now appeared, and 
might seem as if they were twigs which had forked asunder from a 
common origin. Mr. Stewart then, by means of coloured drawings 
upon the black-board, pointed out the difference between the structure 
and nutrition of bone in mammals and birds, and showed the 
similarity of the latter to that which apj)eared to have existed in the 
case of the bones of megalosaurus. He believed that attention was 
first called to these now well-known facts by the late Dr. Bowerbank. 
Mr. Slack said he might mention that sections of recent reptile 
bones did not show the analogy so plainly. 
Mr. Stewart thought it most likely that such massively ponderous 
animals as those must have been required as light a structure of bone 
as possible to facilitate their movements. 
George Peters Price, Esq., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
King’s College, February 6 , 1878 . 
Anniversary Meeting. — H. C. Sorby, Esq., F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed, 
a list of donations was read, and the thanks of the meeting were 
voted to the donors. 
At the request of the President, Mr. Curties and Mr. Glaisher 
consented to act as scrutineers at the ballot for the election of Officers 
and Council for the ensuing year. 
The Treasurer submitted his Annual Statement of the Accounts of 
the Society, which had been duly audited by the gentlemen appointed 
at the previous meeting. This and the Report of the Secretaries will 
be found below. 
It was moved and seconded “ That the Reports of the Treasurer 
and Secretaries be received and adopted, and that they be printed 
and circulated in the usual manner.” 
The motion having been put to the meeting by the President, was 
carried unanimously. 
The Secretary then read obituary notices of two deceased Fellows 
— Dr. J. S. Bowerbank and Dr. Henry Lawson. 
The Secretary said that as some reference had been made to the 
discontinuance of the ‘ Monthly Microscopical Journal,’ it might be 
well for him to say a few words in explanation of what had recently 
occurred with respect to it. The Council had received from the 
Publisher a notice that, as he had for some time past carried it on at 
a loss, he could not continue his arrangement with them, unless at a 
considerably increased charge to the Society ; by this, and also by 
a reduction in the editorial expenses, he thought he might be able to 
make it pay. The Council decided that the terms were such that 
they could not entertain them, for they already paid 20Z. per month, 
and they had thought that the advantages offered by the Journal — 
especially as regarded information as to foreign microscopical work 
— were hardly so great as they ought to bo. For many years past a 
wish had been expressed by many Fellows that the Society should 
