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At the convention, Professor Richard Owen was elected President, along with Nathaniel Ward as Treasurer, and Farre as Secretary.

The first president of the society was palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen who is best known for coining the word "dinosaur" and for his role in creation London's Natural History Museum. It was renamed the Royal Microscopical Society in 1866, when the Society received its Royal Charter under the Presidency of James Glaisher. Its governing documents are its Charter and By-laws.

In 1870, at the request of then President, the Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade, in his maiden speech added the suffix "-al" to the name of the society to prevent "the possibility of ourselves being mistaken for microscopic objects".

Distinguished botanist Dukinfield Henry Scott served as president of the society between 1904 and 1906