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in exchange, 

 from Mr. F. Crisp. 



„ Mr. Tatem. 



„ Mr. Glasspoole. 



" The American Naturalist "... 



" Harting's Treatise on the Microscope " 



Six Slides of Desmids 



One Slide — Red Snow 



Photograph of Dr. Matthews, for the Club album. 

 The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to the Donors. 

 The President said that Dr. M. C. Cooke had laid before the committee a 

 plan which had received their cordial approval, and which he would ask 

 that gentleman to explain to the meeting. 



Dr. M. C. Cooke said that having found a certain plan which he had 

 adopted for years of considerable use to himself and friends, he had 

 thought that the larger association of friends who formed the Club might 

 gain some advantage from it also, if he showed them how it might be 

 carried out. They all knew that he attached great value to drawings made 

 from objects under observation — in the progress of years names might be 

 changed, and organisms might be placed in other classes where it would be 

 difficult to recognise them, but a faithful drawing was always of value- 

 When Ehrenberg had only a £5 microscope to work with he made drawings 

 of what he saw, which were now regarded as of great value, although his 

 descriptions were, many of them, become out of date. In studying fungi 

 he had made a practice of obtaining drawings from all sources, and of 

 every species which it was possible to obtain, and he had collected alto- 

 gether about twenty thousand such drawings of fungi, mounted in uniform 

 size and kept in portfolios for easy reference ; and he had thought that this 

 plan would be of value in the Club, and might be of special use at their 

 gossip nights. Say the subject illustrated was that of Algce, for instance — 

 any one being interested in the subject, and desirous of identifying any 

 specimens, might come to the Club on a gossip night, and having looked 

 over a box containing figures of Algce would probably be able to obtain the 

 information he required. The committee approving of the suggestion, had 

 authorised the purchase of paper of the size found most convenient, and 

 ruled for the purpose ; any one who had any drawings at disposal, and was 

 willing to give them for the purpose, might obtain some of this paper upon 

 which the drawings were to be mounted. The mounting would, of course, 

 have to be done by the member presenting the drawings, because it would 

 not be fair to ask any honorary officer of the Club to undertake this 

 trouble. Care should be taken to mount illustrations of one species only 

 on a single sheet, because the sheets were intended to be kept like a pack 

 of cards, so as to be sorted and arranged as easily as possible; where 

 drawings were taken from books, or where engravings were mounted, 

 members should in all cases state the work from which the extracts were 

 made ; and when original drawings w T ere contributed, the name of the con- 



