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o56 FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



June. A. A. 0. Eliot Merlin, F.R.M.S. Photomicrograph of 

 Foot of Ceylon Spider. 

 E. M. Nelson, F.R.M.S. A Slide of Green Trap show- 

 ing Structure resembling Vegetable Tissue. 

 ,, W. Traviss. Apparatus for Use in Pond Hunting, 



enabling a Sample of Water to be obtained at any 

 desired Depth. 

 ,, James Grundy. Apparatus for use in connection with 



E. M. Nelson's paper " On a Method of Measuring 

 the Magnifying Power of an Objective." 

 Oct. S. C. Akehurst. A Changer for Sub-stage Condensers. 



S. C. Akehurst. Trap for Minute Free-swimming 



Organisms. 

 Messrs. Grundy, Cheshire and Ainslie. Various Aper- 

 tometers. 

 Nov. C. E. Heath, F.R.M.S. Objective Guard for Preventing 



Damage to High-power Objectives. 

 Dec. B. M. Draper. A New Form of Transparent " Live 

 Box " for the Exhibition of Living Organisms, chiefly 

 Insects. Also a Special Form of Stop for Dark- 

 grouncl Illumination with a Greenhough Binocular. 

 W. Traviss. Specimens of Quartz showing under the 



Microscope a Laminated Structure. 



Your Committee feel that the Club is greatly to be congratu- 

 lated on the inclusion in its Journal of such valuable papers. 

 Not only is their publication in our Proceedings an honour to the 

 Club, but the actual value of the communications as a contribu- 

 tion to science, and especially to that always difficult and often 

 little-appreciated subject, classification, makes the Journal a 

 standard work of reference. The Club has also been the means 

 of making known and recording a number of new species among 

 the Rotifera, the Entomostraca, and Water-mites, by members 

 who are authorities in these several classes. While thanking 

 those members who have contributed to the success of the Club, 

 the Committee would take this opportunity of urging upon 

 others the great advantage of bringing before the Club subjects of 

 interest in the form of short papers or notes, and the profit they 

 would themselves obtain by putting their knowledge into the 

 concrete and definite shape required for this purpose. The 



