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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Meeting of 20th April, 1892, at 20, Hanover Square, W., 
The President (Dr. R. Braithwaite, F.L.S.) in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the meeting of 16th March last were read and con- 
firmed, and were signed by the President. 
The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) 
received since the last meeting was read, and the thanks of the Society 
were given to the donors. 
From 
12 Slides of Deep-sea Deposits from the Eastern Archi-1 Surgeon P. TF. Basset- 
pelago J Smith, R.N. 
3 Slides of sections of Liriodendron Prof. D. P. Penhallow. 
Mr. A. W. Bennett called attention to some slides which had been 
received from Prof. Penhallow, of Montreal, who sent them to illustrate 
a new method of labelling which he had found to be very useful, and 
which he thought was an improvement upon the ordinary method. 
Instead of writing upon the usual paper label, bis plan was to write 
directly upon the glass and to cover the writing afterwards with a thin 
coating of Canada balsam, which made it quite permanent. The slides 
sent were merely intended as samples of the method of labelling ; those 
who saw them would, no doubt, agree as to the neatness of their appear- 
ance ; nothing, however, was said as to the material with which the 
writing was made. 
Dr. W. H. Dallinger said there would be no difficulty in preparing 
a suitable ink for this purpose, but he thought that as ordinary ink ran 
so freely upon the surface of glass, some special kind would be necessary 
for this purpose. 
Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell said that the Council had, since their last 
meeting, received notice from their landlords that the rates would no 
longer be paid, so that they were now free to act upon the terms of the 
new arrangement. One consequence of this would be that in future 
the rooms of the Society w r ould be open for the use of Fellows every 
Wednesday evening from 6 to 10 p.m., as at King’s College, from 
November to June, it being understood, however, that if there were no 
persons present on any occasion at 9 o’clock, the rooms would be closed 
at that hour. Of course it w^ould be understood that this order would 
take effect at once, and that therefore the rooms would be opened for the 
first time on Wednesday evening next, the 27th inst. 
Mr. F. Chapman submitted the second part of his paper “ On the 
Foraminifera of the Gault of Folkestone,” part i. having been read at 
the meeting in October 1891. The paper being chiefly descriptive of 
the forms exhibited in the room, was for that reason taken as read, it 
being understood that it would appear in the Journal fully illustrated. 
