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wanted the use of the North Room as well as the large Meeting Room. 
3. That tables should be provided for them on these occasions. 4. That 
in case of alteration as to present terms of heating, a coal- cellar should 
be provided. 5. That they should have the use of the kitchen for their 
caterer on the evenings of meetings. 6. That two electric table-lamps 
should be provided for the use of Fellows who might want to use Micro- 
scopes in the Library. 7. That they should be allowed to fix a plate at 
the door with the name of the Society on it. He believed that the Royal 
Medical and Chirurgical Society had only agreed to some of the less 
important of these requests. With regard to the use of their own 
rooms on Wednesdays from 6 to 11, they were in future to be entitled 
to do so. If they wanted the use of the North Room they were told 
they must pay for it. Tables made up of trestles would be provided. 
The agreement as to coals, whatever that might be, was to be endorsed 
upon the lease. The use of the kitchen was declared to be impossible, 
in fact there seemed to be some objection even to their boiling water in 
a kettle. Leave was given to attach to wall-plugs lamps provided by 
the Royal Microscopical Society, but as there were no wall-plugs, who 
was to fix them ? And in the matter of the door-plate, it was absolutely 
refused He would suggest that the meaning of this was that whilst 
the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society asked them to give what was 
•equivalent to about 30Z. a year, they said, we will give you in return 
what costs us nothing, but if you want anything more you must pay for 
it ; and he thought before they passed the resolution before them they 
should obtain the use of the North Room, and as regarded the door-plate 
they should at least obtain an undertaking that in the event of any other 
Society being allowed to fix a plate outside, the same permission should 
be accorded to the Royal Microscopical Society. Another thing he 
should also like to mention, and that was the lavatory in the passage on 
the ground-floor was persistently kept closed against the Fellows of the 
Society, any one requiring to use it having to go up to one on the second 
floor instead. 
The President said if plates were put up outside for each Society there 
would be six wanted. 
Prof. Bell said that the terms proposed by Mr. Allen as to the name- 
plate were really the same as already understood, because the only reason 
for refusal was the fact that they had already refused others. 
The President thought it was really such a trivial thing that it was 
hardly worth while to make a difficulty of it. 
Dr. Dallinger said that the whole of the points raised by Mr. Allen 
had been before the Council, and had been very fully discussed, many of 
them during the lifetime of Mr. Mayall. He remembered that with 
regard to the name-plate it was specially stated that no plate except 
that of the parent Society would be permitted. All their requests 
beyond this, which it was possible to grant, were acceded to except as 
to the use of the North Room, and it should be remembered that these 
were all made beyond the actually signed agreement already entered 
into. They were asking what they did simply because an unfortunate 
omission from the deed enabled them in some measure to reopen the 
question as to its terms, but he thought they ought not to strain the 
matter to the extent of taking what might be an unfair advantage of 
