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FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT, 



Reviewing the work of the Club during the year 1912 shows 

 that it has been a period in which its high value to the user 

 of the microscope has been again demonstrated. Not only has 

 the Club maintained the interest of its meetings, but it has 

 exhibited a revival of interest in matters connected with the 

 instrument itself. There has been a very good attendance at 

 conversational meetings, and the favour shown to the excursions 

 during a season having a record rainfall is well worthy of note. 

 The number of new members added during the twelve months 

 is forty, 50 per cent, advance on that of 1911, and this number 

 would have been even greater if an ordinary meeting in Decem- 

 ber had been possible. The Club has lost five members by 

 death, and resignations have accounted for fifteen ; this leaves 

 a net gain of twenty members. The total membership on 

 December 31st was 406. 



The following communications have been made during the 

 year : 



Jan. James Burton. Notes on Algae collected in 1911. 



Feb. Prof. E. A. Minchin, F..R.S. Some Speculations with 



regard to the Simplest Forms of Living Beings and 

 the Origin of Life. 

 March. H. Sidebottom. Lagenae of the South-west Pacific. 

 C. F. Rousselet, F.R.M.S. On New Species of Rotifera. 



,, D. Bryce. On New Species of Callidina. 



A. E. Conrady, F.R.A.S. On Resolving Powers ob- 



tainable with Dark-Ground Illumination. 

 A. A. C. Eliot Merlin, F.R.M.S. On the Capped 



Secondaries of Navicula Smithii. 

 April. John Stevens, F.R.M.S. On Notommata glgantea 

 (Glascott). 

 Duncan J. Reid. Illumination in Critical Work. 



May. E. M. Nelson, F.R.M.S. On the sculled fseudopodia 

 of certain Diatoms. 

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