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MICEOSCOPICAL AND NATUEAL HISTOEY SECTION. 
Annual Meeting, April 12th, 1880. 
Chaeles Bailey, F.L.S., President of the Section, in 
the Chair. 
The Annual Report of the Council was read by the secre- 
tary (Mr. Melvill). It showed the Section to be in a very 
flourishing condition numerically, consisting at present of 
88 Members, and 17 Associates, of which 1 Member and 6 
Associates were elected during the past Session. 
18 papers or other communications had been read at the 
meetings for the past Session, and the Council augured well 
from the increasing interest Members and Associates alike 
take in the proceedings, the average attendance being larger 
than in the 3 previous years. 
They called the attention of all interested in the study of 
Natural History to the large additions that had been made 
during the past years to the Library — including as it does, 
the leading and standard works on most branches — and 
they would particularly call attention to such expensive 
works as Reichenbach’s Flora Germanise et Helvetise, 
Reeve’s Conchologia Iconica, Hewitson’s Exotic Butterflies, 
and others. 
The Council also earnestly invite all Members and Asso- 
ciates to favour them, at least once every Session, with 
either some paper, the exhibition of some object of Natural 
History, or microscopical slide. Whether new to science 
or not, it is highly important for the vitality of the Section 
that some subject should be found for discussion, and 
unfortunately the number of contrihiding Membei's tmd 
PEOCEEDiiSrGS — LiT. & Phil. Soc. — VoL. XIX. — No. 15. — Session 1879-80. 
