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Single Limax amoeba cyst, isolated for the preparation of a culture. 



Method used for ruling counting-sHdes. 



Slides ruled in columns about ^ mm. apart, used for counting 

 Entamoeba cysts in stools. 



Method.f or counting Entamoeba cysts in stools by means of a cover- 

 glass ruled in squares. 



Preparation of an ether concentrate of Entamoeba cysts in stools. 



Method of filtering fsecal emulsions through fine-meshed silk. 



By Mr. D. J. Scourfield, F.Z.S. :— 



Daphnia atkinso7ii, from Norfolk. 



D. carinata var. cephalata, from Queensland. 



D. cristata, from Finland. 



D. cucidlata var. Kahlbergensis, from Cheshire meres. 



D. gaUatea, from Loch Vennacbar. 



D. lumholtzi, from Lake Nyasa. 



D. magna, from Sussex. 



D. pulex var. ohtusa. 



AN ORDINARY MEETING 



OF THE Society was held at 20 Hanover Square, W., on 

 Wednesday, March 21st, 1917, at 8 p.m., Mr. E. Heron- 

 Allen, F.L.S. F.Z.S., ETC., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting, having been circulated, were 

 confirmed, and signed by the President. 



The President read the nomination form for Mr. Frank W. Lacy ; 

 he also directed that the ballot for the election of Mr. Henry James 

 Howard and Colonel Alfred Ryland be taken. These gentlemen were 

 subsequently declared duly elected. 



The receipt of two Donations to the Society were then announced. 

 The first was a stand for the Society's projection apparatus, which had 

 been presented' by Messrs. J. E. Barnard and C. F. Hill, Hon. Treasurer. 

 The second presentation was four slides of Mycetozoa, by Mr. H. J. 

 Howard. On the proposition of the President, a vote of thanks was 

 returned to the gentlemen named for their gifts. 



Mr. Scourfield then referred to an exhibition of specimens of 

 Ghlamydomonas, sp. incert., that he had prepared, with the assistance 

 of Messrs. Grundy and Wilson. * There were about thirty known species. 



