PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
MEETING 
Held on the 21st of October, 1896, at 20 Hanoveh Square, W., 
Dr. R. G. Hebb, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Meeting of 17tli June last were read and con- 
firmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 
The List of Donations to the Society (exclusive of exchanges and 
reprints) received since the last meeting was read, and the thanks of 
the Society were voted to the Donors : — 
From 
E. M. Crookshank, Bacteriology. 4tli ed. (8vo, London, 1897) {(] K ^Lewis) 
A. B. Lee, Microtomist’s Vade-Mecum. 4th ed. (8vo, London, 
1896) The Author. 
Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell called the attention of the Fellows of the 
Society to the two books presented. One of these was a copy of the fourth 
edition of Mr. A. B. Lee’s ‘ Microtomist’s Vade-Mecum,’ a notice of 
which he had inserted in the October number of the Journal, pp. 564-5. 
The first edition of this work was published in 1885, and the fourth in 
1896 — a fact which would be in itself the best testimony to the value of 
its contents to students and others. The other book, also in its fourth 
edition, was Prof. Cruikshank’s text-book on Bacteriology. The ad- 
vances made since the previous editions were issued had necessitated the 
re-writing of a considerable portion of both these books ; so that each 
would be found much more than simply a new edition of an old book. 
The Chairman remarked that the Society was greatly indebted to 
the donors of these useful works, and he took the opportunity of stating 
that he had derived considerable benefit from the earlier editions of both. 
The present editions were great improvements on the previous ones, 
both works having been not only revised, but practically re-written. 
Prof. Bell said that the Fellows of the Society would no doubt re- 
member that, thanks to the endeavours of Mr. E. M. Nelson, Mr. T. 
Charters White, and Mr. Andrew Pringle, the Society was very well 
