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Prof. Bell said they would no doubt remember Mr. C. J. Pound, 
one of the Fellows of the Society, who used to be a regular attendant at 
their meetings. He was brought up in the Physiological Laboratory at 
King’s College, whence he was taken by Dr. Crookshank to assist him 
in the new Bacteriological Laboratory. Mr. Pound some time ago went 
out to Australia to take up an appointment there, and had written a 
letter from which it appeared that he had been recently appointed 
Government Bacteriologist and Director of the Stock Institute in 
Queensland. Mr. Pound writes : “ The Institute, which will be the first 
of its kind in Australasia, is intended for the study of diseases in live 
stock. It will possess both bacteriological and pathological laboratories, 
fully equipped with Microscopes, microtomes, and all the latest improved 
necessary apparatus for carrying on original investigations into the 
nature and causes of animal diseases, some of which, it is needless to say, 
are more or less peculiar to this colony. Another laboratory will be fitted 
with specially designed incubators and apparatus for the purpose of 
preparing and cultivating the attenuated vaccines of anthrax, symptom- 
atic anthrax, tetanus, plearo-pneumonia, &c. Adjoining the laboratories 
there will be a photographic department, furnished with a series of 
cameras for taking photographs of animals and morbid specimens ; also 
a complete plant of apparatus for obtaining photomicrographs. In 
connection with the laboratories there will be a museum, specially 
devoted to the collection and preservation of specimens illustrative of 
the various manifestations of diseases in stock ; also a collection of 
normal dissections and skeletons of comparative anatomy. As the 
colony of Queensland does not possess a Microscopical Society, the 
establishment of this institution will afford an admirable opportunity 
for those interested to take up the study and use of the Microscope, and 
in order to facilitate matters in this direction it has been recommended 
that classes be formed and arrangements made to deliver courses of 
lectures on microscopy and other subjects connected with the work of 
the Institute. From the geographical situation of Queensland, with its 
extraordinary climate and remarkable fauna and flora, it will at once be 
seen that there is a wide field and ample scope for prosecuting original 
research in any particular branch of biological science. It is therefore 
naturally expected that valuable results will be obtained from the 
investigations and special work which are to be carried on at the Stock 
Institute, thus affording much necessary information to the stock- 
breeders and pastoralists throughout the colony.” 
The President, in moving the thanks of the Society to Mr. Pound 
for his very interesting communication, expressed a hope that this would 
not be the last they should hear of the Stock Institute, which seemed 
happily founded in a district where there was a wide field of usefulness 
open to its investigations. 
Mr. J. G. Grenfell read a paper “ On the Tracks, Threads, and Films 
of Oscillatorise and Diatoms,” the subject being illustrated by diagrams 
and by specimens shown under the Microscope in the room. 
Mr. T. Comber said it was a little difficult to make observations on 
the things described by Mr. Grenfell, because the point raised was quite 
a new one ; he thought, however, that they must be composed of some 
