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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the meeting of the Chib held on March 22nd, 1910, Mr. C. F. 

 Rousselet, F.R.M.S., Vice-President, in the chair, the minutes of 

 the meeting held on February 22 nd were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. William Green, C. H. K. Gonville, H. Tomlin, William 

 N. Ellis, William L. Jones and George K. Dunstall 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 chairman drew attention to the state of the room in 

 which they were meeting. It was the intention of the landlords 

 to reconstruct the building, and when the alterations were 

 completed the Club would probably meet in a room above the 

 present one. 



Mr. A. Earland delivered a lecture on " Life on a Scientific 

 Cruiser, and a Yisit to a Whaling Station." He briefly described 

 the constitution of the International Fisheries Investigation 

 Commission, which commenced work in 1902, as the result of 

 international conferences held at Stockholm in 1899 and Chris- 

 tiania in 1901. All the countries borderinsj on the North Sea 

 took part in the conferences, the general scheme of operations 

 being directed by a Central Bureau at Copenhagen. The physical 

 characteristics of the North Sea were then discussed and its 

 extreme shallowness remarked upon. South of a line drawn from 

 Moray Firth to the north point of Denmark, St. Paul's Cathedral, 

 if resting on the sea-bed, would show as an islet of considerable 

 height, as, with few exceptions, the depth does not exceed 50 

 fathoms (300 ft.), and in many places is only 20 fathoms. The 

 lecturer then described the Goldseeker, the cruiser referred 

 to. She was built at Grimsby for the Iceland deep-sea trawling, 

 and measures 118 ft. by 21 ft. beam, and is given as of 200 tons 

 burden. The fittings of the ship put in subsequent to her pur- 

 chase by the Scottish Fisheries Department were then described. 



