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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
part of the Society to the intelligent curiosity of the acquaintances of 
the members, there was arranged a programme of three objects for 
each of the exhibitors to present, and most of the slides were selected 
from specialities cultivated by the members. On a number of tables 
arrayed about the hail were placed twenty-two fine instruments, most 
of them first-class stands, and as the audience moved from one table 
to the other, the gentlemen in charge took occasion to explain the 
objects exhibited and reply to the many questions propounded. [The 
objects were of the usual class, but their description would occupy two 
pages of this Journal, which cannot be given up to such matters. — 
Ed. ‘ M. M. J.’] 
Microscopical Society of Dunkirk, U.S.A. 
At the annual meeting of the Dunkirk Microscopical Society, held 
at the Library Rooms, in the City Hall, on Friday night, June 8, 
1877, the address of the President, Geo. E. Blackham, was delivered. 
It was of considerable length and interest ; hut the following is all 
that we can afford space for. 
To the members of the Dunkirk Microscopical Society : — It is 
an excellent custom in societies like this of ours for the retiring Pre- 
sident to read before the Society at their annual meeting an address, 
partly made up of a review of the Society under his administration, 
and partly of a statement of the results of his own researches or of 
advances made in any part of the world in the particular branch which 
he has selected as his specialty. For reasons not now necessary to 
enter into, the custom has never been followed by this Society, and in 
consequence the mass of material which has accumulated during the 
three years of our corporate existence has become so great as to 
furnish an ample basis for an address which shall consist solely in a 
review of our successes and failures in the past, and a brief glance at 
the promises and possibilities of the future, and leave no room for 
any special discussion of recent advances in the optics of microscopy, 
which is, as you know, the special field to which my own studies have 
been for some time directed. 
Since 1875 our reports have appeared with considerable regularity 
in the ‘ Cincinnati Medical News,’ and occasionally in other journals, 
including the famous London ‘ Monthly Microscopical Journal,’ and 
have attracted considerable attention, and done much to make the 
name of our Society and of our town well and widely known. 
At the regular meeting, January 12, 1877, Mrs. 0. N. Shelton read 
a brief but valuable paper recording her original investigations of 
“ Martyina as an Insectivorous Plant.” 
The next meeting worthy of special record was held February 22, 
1877. The paper for this evening was “ On the Use of High Powers 
on Opaque Objects,” by George W. Morehouse, Esq., of Way land, 
New York. Unfortunately Mr. Morehouse was unable to be present, 
and his paper was read by the President. It was an able and original 
paper, and has been printed in full in the ‘ Cincinnati Medical News.’ 
The regular meeting of March 9, 1877, was notable for the reading 
of an able paper by our worthy and efficient Secretary, C. P. Ailing, 
M.D., on the “ Microscopy of the Blood.” This paper gave rise to a 
