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exactly the proper quantity of material, they would make them the 
same shape as when they were free, and if they were supplied with 
too much the shape became irregular. The rotation of the pellet in 
the cup was the most complicated part of the whole performance. 
He had watched it many times, under various powers up to ^ inch, 
but could never be perfectly satisfied as to whether it really did 
rotate or only appeared to do so. 
The President said it appeared to he a very remarkable and 
complicated arrangement. 
Mr. Slack thought that the pellet must rotate in order to obtain 
the shape. 
The proceedings were then adjourned to December. 
Donations to the Library since October 3, 1877 : 
From 
Nature. Weekly The Editor. 
Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 
Society o. Arts Journal Society. 
Linneau Society’s Journal Ditto. 
American Journal of Microscopy Editor. 
Lecture on the Antiquity of Man. By T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. j ^'scopical^CMb' 
Me'moire sur la Structure et la Composition Mineralogique du 
Coticule, &c. Par A. Renard, S. J Author. 
General Catalogue of Books, 1875 to 1877. By Bernard Quaritch Publisher. 
Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Vol. VII. •• Poyal Society. 
The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 
Griffin William Yyse, Esq., F.G.S., &c., and W. H. Jones, Esq. 
Walter W. Beeves, 
Assist. -Secretary. 
Quekett Microscopical Club. 
November 23, 1877. — Henry Lee, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Six new members were elected, and four gentlemen were proposed for 
membership. A large number of donations were announced, amongst 
which may be specially mentioned a 1-inch objective from Mr. Wray ; 
fifteen slides of anatomical preparations from Mr. Cole ; twelve slides 
of vegetable tissues from Mr. Gilbert ; and twenty-four of physio- 
logical preparations from Mr. J. J. Hunter ; for which the thanks of 
the meeting were unanimously voted. 
The President intimated that the subject of elementary instruction 
upon subjects connected with the microscope, which had often been 
urged upon their attention, had been submitted to the careful con- 
sideration of a sub-committee appointed for the purpose, and that 
upon the recommendation of these gentlemen it had been decided to 
make the experiment. On the next gossip night, therefore, it had 
been arranged that Mr. Ingpen should occupy one of the “ bays ” in 
the room in which they met, and give to any who felt disposed to 
attend, a short description of the microscope and its construction. It 
was hoped that a series of such explanations might prove of much use 
