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A hearty vote of thanks was given to Mr. Harris for his 

 interesting paper, which was well illustrated by about twenty 

 preparations from those which he had presented to the Club at 

 the March meeting. The preparations were arranged, mostly 

 with dark-ground illumination, under microscopes kindly lent by 

 Messrs. H. F. Angus & Co. 



The Chairman, in moving a vote of thanks to Messrs. Angus, 

 which was carried bv acclamation, said that in London members 

 took for granted that there was never any difficulty in getting 

 their optician friends to lend the Club any reasonable number of 

 microscopes ; but, as he had found by recent experience, outside 

 of London such a thing was practically an impossibility ; even in a 

 large town the number of microscopes available was very small. 

 By being reminded of this he hoped they would more fully appre- 

 ciate their good fortune. 



At the meeting of the Club held on May 27th, 1913, the 

 President, Prof. A. Dendy, D.Sc, F.R.S., in the chair, the 

 minutes of the meeting held on May 22nd were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Messrs. Stanley Hall and Reginald Hook were balloted for and 

 duly elected members of the Club. 



The list of donations to the Club was read and the thanks of 

 the members were voted to the donors. 



The President said that for many years past a number of 

 pamphlets, etc., had been received by the Club, which, not being 

 considered of sufficient value to bind, had bden allowed to 

 accumulate and were stored in a room downstairs. These had 

 long been a kind of white elephant to the Committee, who had at 

 length decided to deal with them, and had appointed a sub-com- 

 mittee for this purpose. These gentlemen had gone through 

 them and had come to the conclusion that a large mass of this 

 material must be disposed of, and the question arose as to how 

 this was to be done, and it had been resolved to offer the bulk to 

 some dealer in second-hand books, but first of all to offer them to 

 the members of the Club. For this purpose, lists would be pre- 

 pared and laid upon the table at the next Gossip meeting and 

 again at the next Ordinary meeting, for members to inspect and 

 to make offers for any which they might care to possess. The 



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