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PROCEEDINGS. 



July 8th, 1887. — Conversational Meeting. 



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The following objects were exhibited : — 

 Melicerta ringens 

 Orthesia $ , sp. allied to coccidce, and form 



ing a kind of marsupium in wax ... 

 Diatoms, Porodiscus interruptus 



Craspedorus elegans... ... ... „ „ 



Arachnoidiscus JShrenbergii, show- ^ 

 ing fine points projecting in- I 

 wards from the areolations, | 

 j'jth oil imm. O.G. ... J 



Attendance — Members, 16 ; Visitors, 





Mr. F. W. Andrew. 



Mr. E. T. Browne. 

 Mr. H. Mori and. 



Mr. T. F. Smith. 



July 22nd, 1887. — Ordinary Meeting. 



E. T. Newton, Esq., F.G.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected members of 

 the Club : — Mr. Richard James Cowling and Mr. George Pearce. 



The followiug additions to the Library and Cabinet were announced : — 



From the Editor. 

 In exchange. 



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Mr. Alfred Allen. 



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" Science Gossip " 

 " The Botanical Gazette '' 

 " Annual Report of the Brighton and Sussex ) 

 Natural History Society "... ... ) 



" Journal of Microscopy " 



" The Journal of the Postal Microscopical ( 



Society" ... ... j 



" The Scientific Inquirer " ... 



" My Microscope " ... ... 



" Report of the Smithsonian Institution " ... 

 The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 

 Mr. T. F. Smith read " Some Additional Notes on Diatom Structure." 

 The Chairman said it had no doubt given great satisfaction to the 

 members to know that they had amongst them a gentleman who, when he 

 found he had made a mistake, was willing to come down and acknowledge 

 it at the meeting. It was a thing which he feared very few men, even 

 amongst those high up in the ranks of science, were desirous of doing. 

 Mr. Morland said as he had not yet had the opportunity of seeing the 



Mr. Roper. 

 In exchange. 



