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Committee is gratified to note that the inconvenience is confined 

 to few. 



Your Committee has again to deplore the fewness of papers 

 containing original work, and it is feared that unless this falling 

 off be arrested the character of the ordinary meetings and of the 

 Journal will deteriorate. Although prompt publication cannot 

 always be guaranteed, the main results of any work appear 

 within a fortnight in the pages of The English Mechanic^ and 

 are sent to all country members. 



During the year the following communications have been 

 received : 



Papers. 



March. The Structure of the Eye-surface of Diptera, etc. 



Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S. 

 On Holostomum excisuni. 



Mr. T. B. Eosseter, F.E.M.S. 

 On Hymenolepis acicula smuata, sp. nov. 



Mr. T. B. Eosseter, F.E.M.S. 



April. On a New Species of Technitella. 



Messrs. E. Heron-Allen, F.L.S., F.E.M.S., 

 and Arthur Earland. 



May. Some Applications of Microscopy to Modern Science and 

 Practical Knowledge (Presidential Address). 



Prof. E. A. Minchin, M.A., F.Z.S. 



Oct. On Low-power Stereo-photomicrography. 



Mr. A. C. Banfield. 



On the Life-history of a Tachinid Fly. 



Mr. W. Wesche, F.E.M.S. 



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Notes. 



Nov. On Mounting Spider Dissections. 



Mr. F. P. Smith. 



,, On a Quick Method of Preparing and Staining Pollen. 



Mr. W. Wesche, F.E.M.S. 



