PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
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Annual Meeting, held 21st Jan., 1891, at 20, Hanover Square, W., 
the President (Dr. C. T. Hudson, F.R.S.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the meetings of 17th December last were read and 
confirmed, and were signed by the President. 
The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 
since the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the Society given 
to the donors. 
From 
Cowan, T. W., The Honey Bee: its Natural History, Anatomy, and 
Physiology, xi. and 220 pp., 72 figs., and frontispiece. (8vo, 
London, 1891) The Author. 
The President said it was with great regret that he had to notify 
the death of one of their Honorary Fellows, Dr. H. B. Brady, F.B.S. 
He had suffered, as no doubt they were aware, from a long illness, and 
had died at a comparatively early age, but he had left behind him, as the 
fruit of twenty-five years’ study of the Foraminifera, results that might 
well be considered the ample reward of long life and unvarying health. 
For, besides many memoirs on his favourite subject, written either 
alone or in conjunction with the late Prof. W. Kitchen Parker and 
Prof. Rupert Jones, he published single-handed that splendid report on 
the Foraminifera of the ‘ Challenger ’ expedition, which had so extended 
their knowledge, and confirmed his high reputation. On his enthusiasm 
and unflagging industry it was needless for him to dwell ; but he 
might be permitted to add, that those who had the pleasure of knowing 
him well, mourned for the loss, not only of an accomplished scientist, 
but of a sterling friend. In addition to this loss, he had also to record 
the death of Prof. G. Govi, another of their Honorary Fellows, which 
occurred in 1889, but the notification of which was omitted from the 
Report of the Council in 1890. To fill the vacancies thus created, it 
was proposed to elect Prof. Hermann Fol, of Nice, and Prof. Sir Joseph 
Lister, Bart., F.R.S. , nominations in favour of whom were then read to 
the meeting and ordered to be suspended in the usual manner. 
Mr. Swift exhibited and described a new form of Petrological 
Microscope which he had made under the instructions of Mr. Allen 
Dick, which differed from the ordinary patterns in having no revolving 
stage, but was so constructed that, whilst the object remained fixed, the 
eye-piece and the tube below the stage could be revolved. 
The President expressed the thanks of the Society to Mr. Swift for 
exhibiting and explaining the features of this Microscope. 
Mr. E. M. Nelson exhibited a new Apochromatic Condenser by 
Powell and Lealand, which gave a larger aplanatic solid cone than it 
had hitherto been found possible to obtain. 
