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given to the discharge of his duties, to which the present high standing 
of the Journal is in great measure attributable.” 
The expenses of the Journal are still very considerable in propor- 
tion to the total income of the Society, and the Council feel that they 
cannot for long expect Mr. Bennett, Dr. Hebb, and Mr. Thomson to abide 
by the self-denying ordinances which they have accepted. In other 
words, the roll of the Fellows must be increased in numbers. 
INVESTMENTS. 
The satisfactory appearance of the yearly balance sheet will, on 
inspection, be found to be due to a sale of Indian Stock, by which 
416Z. 10s. id. was brought into the income account. By dint of severe 
economy the Council hope to be able shortly to reinvest part of the 
income of the Society. 
INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS. 
Owing to the generosity of Messrs. Baker, Beck, Ross, and Swift, the 
Society’s working Microscopes have been thoroughly overhauled and put 
into repair free of cost. 
The firm of Mr. Chas. Baker, besides putting in working order a 
large binocular and a monocular of their make, were good enough to 
see to a small Crouch, a monocular and a binocular (makers’ names 
unknown), and to repair the Abbe condenser made by them for the 
small Ross binocular. 
Messrs. Beck, besides putting in working order two binoculars, a 
“ Star ” Microscope, and apparatus, have fitted a substage condenser, with 
iris diaphragm and stops, to their small binocular, thus making the in- 
strument much more efficient and useful. 
Messrs. Ross have put in order two binoculars, and about twenty 
pieces of apparatus. 
Messrs. Swift and Son put in working order a monocular and two 
binoculars of their manufacture, with eye-pieces and three substage con- 
densers, and fitted a new diagonal rack-and-pinion coarse adjustment to 
one of the binoculars. 
CABINET. 
The cabinet of slides has during the past two years been examined 
by the Treasurer, needful repairs effected, and the slides arranged and 
numbered. 
The first 4000 slides, representing the original collection of the 
Society, exclusive of the diatoms and the Tucker, Farrants, and Wallick 
donations, are now registered, and a sufficient index prepared to render 
them available for reference. 
The diatoms are being examined by Mr. T. Comber ; many will pro- 
bably be rejected as being useless, owing to decay and various accidents. 
Belonging to the old collection is the cabinet of about 1700 slides 
presented by the executors of the lato Admiral B. W. Tucker, of Tre- 
maton Castle, Saltash, Cornwall. They consist largely of bone and tooth 
sections, and will supplement the valuable collection presented some years 
ago by the late Joseph Beck. 
The collection of about 900 slides presented by Mrs. Farrants are 
