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FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



During the year 1911 there has been no outstanding feature of 

 interest to chronicle so far as our Ckib is concerned. The number 

 of new members added to the roll is only twenty-seven, and it is 

 hoped that this reduction may soon be made good. The loss by 

 resignation is, however, thirty-seven, and by death thirteen. 

 The Club, therefore, has a smaller membership at the end of the 

 year by twenty- three. No known reason can be assigned for 

 the number of resignations, unless it be the Treasurer's reason- 

 able request for payment of overdue subscriptions ; your Com- 

 mittee is unable to ascribe it to any decay in the vitality of the 

 Club. 



The Club has to deplore the deaths of some of the older 

 members, notably Mr. W. M. Bywater, who was one of the 

 founders of the Club, Mr. G. K. Matthews and Mr. Arthur 

 Cottam, both of whom joined in 1867. 



The meetings have been well attended, and many interesting 

 communications have been presented and discussed, amongst 

 which may be mentioned the following : 



Jan. E. M. Nelson, On Navicula Amicii. 

 C. F. Rousselet, On Three New Species of Rotifer. 



R. T. Lewis, On the Larva of Mantispa. 



Feb. E. A. Minchin, Presidential Address : Some Problems 



of Evolution in the Simplest Forms of Life. 

 March E. M. Nelson, On Dark-ground Illumination. 



A. A. C. Eliot Merlin, On some New Diatomic Structures. 

 Jas. Murray, On some New Species of Water-bears. 

 April N. E. Brown, Notes on Seeds. 



D. J. Scourfield, On some Uses of the Centrifuge in 



Pond-life Work. 

 May C. D. Soar, On the late Saville- Kent's Work on the 

 Hydrachnidae. 

 E. M. Nelson, On some Methods of Illumination. 



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