AUCKLAND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7602, 3 April 1886, Page 6

AUCKLAND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.

The first annual meeting of this society was ■eld at the Auckland Institute on April 1. The minutes were read and confirmed. The secretary read the following annual report : —

The society has been formed during the past year for tho encouragement of microscopic pursuit*, and for promoting friendly intercourse amongst tho votaries of the science, which end* are promoted by meeting and tho circulation of micro objects »mo.>s,.it the members, who are at present seventeen in number. The meeting* have been i.eld during the past winter oti the lirtt Thursday in the month, at. tho Auckland Institute, the Council having very liberally allowed the society the use of a rom for time purpose. These meetings are ujinllv opened by a member leading a paper on a mitabiu subject with micro demonstration, after which various object* of in rent are shown by member", and practical Information is exchanged. Papers have been road on the following subjects :—" Animal < ells," by feasor Thomas; *■ Life History of Mosses."' by Mr. Oheeseman ; "Starches," by Mr. J. A. fond; " The Hair of Animala," by Dr. M . Moore; " Mlcrophotography " by Mr J. Martin; " The Development of Kcul' nrlerms," by Pfo'essor Thomas. The circulation of o ji-cts has been conduced after tie manner ol the British ratal Society, which li a great s>■ cn-.s lines, lilted to contain 12 iilides, ar» sent round to t-ve'y member In rotati.:i. each of whom puts ill an object, ePtering a ascription of it, and illustrating it, when necessary in the notebook which accompanies the box, and, after examining those already In the box, giving any information and criticism on them, and filling in the date of arrival and trancmlssion on the list, pisses it on to his neighbour. Tho society is to he cougntulat don the care and skill with which tho objects are bandied, none up to the present time having been broken or lost. We have also to record the long which the society suffered when its former secretary. Mr. Thos. (Steel, left here for Fiji. Do took arrest Interest in the 'oience, and It wa» chit-fly lo him i hit the society owes its existence,— Chas. Coopab, hon. sec. The report was adopted after some discussion. It was resolved that any member failing to comply with the rules circulated in the note books, shall be admonished by tho secretary, and if the neglect be repeated shall be excluded from the list. It was resolved, if the co-operation of the mioroscopists, besides those belonging to the society, be secured, to hold an exhibition of microscopic objects at an early date, to which the friends Of members and those interested shall be invited. Messrs, Martin, Bartley, and Cheeseman, were appointed a committee for the purpose.