QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 105 



P. E. Dollin, F. Whitteron, J. M. Coon, E. W. H. Row and 

 W. Hardinan 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 members would be very glad to hear 

 that the announcement made at their last meeting, of Dr. Cooke's 

 death, was incorrect. They had it apparently on the best 

 authority, and the scientific Press generally had been similarly 

 misinformed. lie was sure that all members would hope that 

 Dr. Cooke would long remain a member of the Club. 



The President asked members to extend a hearty welcome to 

 a visitor, Dr. E. P. Hodges. Dr. Hodges was State Medical 

 Supervisor for Indiana, U.S.A., had been for many years a 

 Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, and took the greatest 

 interest in microscopy generally. 



Mr. C. Lees dirties, for Messrs. Baker, exhibited a new 

 one-sixteenth oil-immersion objective of N.A. 1*32. It was 

 made of a stable glass one that would stand any climate. Its 

 qualities were appreciated by members, who admired the 

 excellent definition it gave (with a x 7 ocular) on a fine pre- 

 paration of Trypanosoma gambiense. 



The President made some remarks relating to a new species of 

 Holothurian. He said he had no formal paper to read, but the 

 subject had been before the Club a few months ago {Journ. 

 Q.M.C., Ser. 2, Vol. XI. p. 536), when an Australian visitor, 

 Mr. F. Whitteron, of Geelong, had brought for distribution a 

 number of specimens of a species of Holothurian which had an 

 interesting history. They had been collected in Corio Bay, Port 

 Phillip. Continental experts had identified the species as Trocho- 

 dota dunedinensis (Parker). That identification, however, proved 

 to be incorrect, and, as specimens had been distributed at their 

 June meeting, he thought it proper to bring the matter before 

 the notice of the Club. On examining the material he had then 

 taken, he found that all the calcareous wheels had been dis- 

 solved, possibly by the medium in which they were preserved 

 being, or becoming, slightly acid. Fortunately, this failure was 

 not of importance, as, in a reprint he had received from the 

 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Mr. E. C. Joshua, 

 of Melbourne, discussed the species found at Geelong, and 



