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Plumatella repens ••• Mr. C. Rousselet. 



Heliopelta Mr. T. F. Smith. 



Attendance — Members, 41 ; Visitors, 4. 



April 27th, 1888. — Ordinary Meeting. 



A. D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.M.S., &c, 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. James Russell, Mr. R. J. W. Grindle, and Mr. Andrew 

 Pringle. 



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



" The American Monthly Microscopical ") 



, ,, ^ In exchange. 



Journal ... ... ... ... ) 



" The Journal of Microscopy " „ 



" The Scientific Enquirer " „ 



" The Botanical Gazette " ... „ 



" The Journal of the Royal Microscopical ~) 



Society" j 



" Science Gossip " ... ... ... ... „ 



Journal of the New York Microscopical 

 Society " 



I 



1 



Two Vols., " Proceedings Leopold Academy 



of Halle" 



" Journal of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow "... From the Librarian. 



"Annals of Natural History " ... Purchased. 



Four Slides, Diatoms ... ... From Mr. Kitton. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 

 Mr. B. W. Priest read a short paper " On Some Sponge Spicules found 

 in the Diatomaceous Deposit from Oamaru." The subject was illustrated 

 by a diagram. 



Mr. J. G. Waller, in reply to the Chairman, said he had nothing to say 

 which would elucidate the curious phenomena described by Mr. Priest. He 

 had examined the specimens, and could only say they were a great puzzle to 

 him ; they looked as if some minute vermiform creature had got into 

 the spicule and had burrowed along it, but how, it was impossible to say. 

 He thought the perforations seemed more continuous than Mr. Priest had 

 drawn them. 



Professor C. Stewart said he had looked at the specimens and thought 

 that the perforations seemed to be discontinuous. It was a remarkable 

 specimen, and well worthy of investigation and study. It was the first time 

 he had seen such a thing. 



The Chairman said he had some indistinct recollection of Professor 

 Duncan reading a paper at the Linnean Society upon some sponge spicules 

 which were pierced up the centre in a direction which was not straight, but 



