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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the meeting of the Club held on October 25th, 1910, the 

 President, Prof. E. A. Minehin, MA., F.Z.S., in the chair, 

 the minutes of the meeting held on June 28th were read and 

 confirmed. 



Messrs. William Douglas, Alexander Robertson and Charles 

 B. Morris 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 it was his duty to report to the Club 

 the death of one of their most valued members, Mr. Walter 

 Wesche. All present had known him very well both as friend 

 and colleague, and all would agree with him in the loss they 

 had sustained by his death. He was well known as an expert 

 in certain branches of microscopy, and had devoted himself more 

 particularly to the anatomy of the Diptera. Shortly before his 

 death he had himself been in correspondence with Mr. Wesche 

 on the question as to whether the larva of the rat-flea was in 

 the habit of sucking blood like its parents a matter on which 

 they differed in opinion, Mr. Wesche thinking that it did so. He 

 only mentioned this as a reminiscence. He felt sure they would 

 all agree in passing a vote of condolence to the widow and in 

 authorising their Secretary to write on their behalf expressing 

 the Club's sympathy with her in her bereavement, 



A paper on " Some New African Species of Yolvox," by 

 Prof. G. S. West, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., was communicated by 

 Mr. C. F. Rousselet, F.R.M.S. The author said that the paper 

 was largely a report on a number of slides of Volvox recently 

 submitted to him by Mr. Rousselet for examination. They em- 

 braced a series of specimens of Volvox globator, V. aureus, and 

 several other forms of considerable interest. The characters of 

 the two European species, V. globator and V. aureus, are now very 



