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FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Your Committee are glad to be able to assure the Club of its 

 continued prosperity. During the year ending December 31st, 

 1913, fifty-five new members were elected ; this number has been 

 equalled only once, and exceeded only once when there were 

 fifty-seven elected during the recent years of which any record 

 has been found. Eleven have resigned, and four were lost by 

 death, leaving the present number 441. Among those lost by 

 death should be mentioned the Eight Hon. Sir Ford North, for 

 some years a Vice-President and a valued member of the Club. 

 An obituary notice appeared in the November number of the 

 Journal. 



Both the Ordinary and Gossip Meetings have been well attended, 

 in fact on several occasions the number present was somewhat 

 more than the capacity of the room would accommodate with 

 a due regard to comfort. 



The papers and notes read and exhibits contributed during the 

 year were as follows : 



Jan. W. M. Bale, F.B.M.S., of Victoria, Australia. Notes 



on some of the Discoid Diatoms. Communicated by 

 the President. 

 H. Whitehead, B.Sc. British Freshwater Bhabdo- 



coelida (Planarians). Communicated by J. Wilson. 

 C. F. Bousselet, F.B.M.S. The Botifera of Devil's 



Lake : Description of a New Brachionus. 

 E. M. Nelson, F.B.M.S. Note on Pleurosigma angu- 

 latum ; Note on a Coloured Coma observed in 

 examining A. Ralfsii. 

 Feb. Prof. A. Dendy, D.Sc, F.B.S. By-products of Organic 



Evolution. Presidential Address. 

 March. E. Heron-Allen, F.Z.S., F.L.S., and A. Earland, 

 F.B.M.S. On some Foraminifera from the Southern 

 Area of the North Sea, dredged by the Fisheries 

 cruiser Huxley. 

 n D. Bryce. Five New Species of Bdelloid Botifers. 



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