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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the meeting of the Club held on March 28th, the President^ 

 Prof. E. A. Minchin, M.A., F.R.S., in the Chair, the minutes 

 of the meeting held on February 28th were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. E. K. Maxwell, B.A., and Charles Coleman 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 Hon. Secretary regretted to have to announce the death, on 

 March 1st, of Mr. W. M. Bywater, F.R.M.S., in his eighty-sixth 

 year. Mr. Bywater was one of the founders of the Club, in 

 1865, and was the first secretary. The Hon. Secretary was 

 requested to send a letter of condolence from the Club to 

 Mr. Bywater's family. 



It was mentioned that Mr. Bywater had quite recently pre- 

 sented the Club with a collection of photographic portraits of 

 past Presidents of the Club. The album was laid upon the table 

 for the inspection of members. 



The Hon. Secretary also announced the death, on February 25th, 

 of Mr. Staniforth Green, at the age of eighty-three years. 

 Mr. Green was probably the originator of the now usual method 

 of mounting insects in balsam without pressure, a paper 

 explaining his procedure having been read before the Club 

 in 1883. 



The Hon. Secretary had also to announce the death of Mr. F. 

 Hovenden, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., who '; had been a member of the 

 Club since 1867. 



Mr. A. C. Banfield exhibited and read a note on " A New 

 Quartz Mercury-Yapour Lamp." He said that in the exercise 

 of his business as a photographer it formed part of his work 

 to examine and report upon practically every new form of 

 illuminant that was placed upon the market. The new lamp, 

 which is manufactured by the Brush Electrical Co., is certainly 

 not placed on the market from the point of view of things 



