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would like to send specimens they might bo able to send thorn in the 
course of next week direct to Sir H. Trueman Wood. 
Mr. Frank Crisp asked whether they were not to be sent in the first 
instance to the Committee to be examined ? Ho thought that the 
general feeling at the Council meeting was that this should be done. 
Prof. Bell said it was suggested, but no committee was appointed 
because there seemed to be no time for it to act. 
Mr. J. E. Ingpen thought if exhibits of this kind were to be sent in 
by individual Fellows they could not go to the Exhibition as being sent 
by the Society. 
The President said it would be most desirable that whatever went 
from the Society should be essentially good in quality, because to some 
extent their reputation would be at stake in the matter. 
Mr. Crisp thought this made some kind of selection necessary, even 
if it was only done by a committee of one. 
It was thereupon agreed, at the suggestion of Prof. Bell, that if any 
Fellows desired to exhibit photographs in connection with the Society 
they should send them in at once to the office to be forwarded for the 
purpose. 
The'* President having appointed Messrs. J. M. Allen and G. 
Western to act as Scrutineers, the ballot for the election of Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year was proceeded with. 
Prof. Bell said they had received a letter from the Manchester 
Microscopical Society stating that they had decided to hold a conver- 
sazione on January 21st, and asking any Fellows of the Society to be 
present as exhibitors. The invitation, he was afraid, came almost too late 
to be generally accepted, but he would place it upon the table so that if 
any one felt inclined to go down to Manchester on Saturday with his 
instrument he would know whom to address on the matter. 
The President, on rising to deliver the Annual Address, said that he 
had not yet written anything upon the subject which he intended to 
bring before them, but proposed on that occasion to continue, in a 
conversational way, the topic upon which he addressed them last year, 
namely “The Development of the Spores in Ferns and Bryophyta.” 
Last year he had traced the process of reproduction as far as the 
archegonia and antheridia, and he now proposed to speak upon the 
further development, more especially with regard to the Mosses and 
Sphagnums. By means of drawings upon the blackboard the structure 
and growth of the cells, stem, leaves, and inflorescence were then 
popularly explained, and a number of slides exhibited under Microscopes 
in the room were referred to in further illustration of the subject. 
The Rev. Canon Carr said he had much pleasure in moving a hearty 
vote of thanks to the President for the very lucid and interesting address 
which he had just given, and he thought it a great advantage to those 
who were not conversant with the subject to have it brought before them 
in that way by means of blackboard drawings, instead of having it read 
