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PROCEEDINGS. 



December 13th, 1878. — Conversational Meeting. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 

 Head and Organs of Mouth of Drone Bee 



Mr. F. W. Andrew. 

 Mr. W. Goodwin. 

 Mr. J. J. Hunter. 



Dr. Matthews. 



Earwig — Polarised... 



Transverse section of Molar Tooth of Horse 



Petiole of Chestnut — showing the horse-shoe") 



arrangement of its air cells and crystals > Mr. A. Martinelli. 



of mineral matter, in situ ... J 



Two rare varieties of Madrepore 

 Corals on Sponges, showing parasitism 

 Hooklets of genital organ of Pontia brassica,' 



being in the female only of that species, 5> 



and absent in the male 

 Mantle lobes of Terebratula caput-serpentis, 



showing the calcareous spicules 

 Aristolochia ornithocephala... 



» sipho 



Sections of Broom... 



„ ,, Tillandsia glaucophilla ... 

 Sections of Wistaria 

 „ „ Rose ... 



Mr. J. Slade. 



Mr. F. H. Ward. 



Mr. T. C. White. 



Attendance— Members, 57 ; Visitors, 10. 



December 27th, 1878.— Ordinary Meeting. 

 T. C. White, Esq., M.E.C.S., &c., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for, and elected members of 

 the Club:— Mr. Andrew Chatto, Mr. H. A. Erlebach, Mr. Frank C Kellow, 

 Mr. M. G. Martiney, Mr. John M. Reid, and Mr. C. W. Salmon. 



The following donations to the Club were announced : 



" Proceedings of the Royal Society " f rom the Society. 



"Transactions of the Royal Microscopical Society" 

 " Proceedings of the East Kent Natural History l 



Society" j » " 



