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PROCEEDINGS. 



April 25th, 1879. 



-Ordinary Meeting. 



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



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the Publisher. 



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in Exchange. 



from the Author. 

 by Purchase. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following donations to the Club were announced : — ■ 

 " Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society "... from the Society. 

 " Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical 



Society" 

 " 10th Report of the Liverpool Microscopical 



Society" 



" Proceedings of the Watford Natural History 



Society*' 

 " The Popular Science Review '' ... 

 " Science Gossip " ... 

 " The American Naturalist " 



" The Midland Naturalist " 



(i Paper on Pollen," by Mr. M. S. Vince " 



" Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science " . 



<c Grevillea" 



" Annals of Natural History '' 



Ray Society's last publication 



Reprint of a paper on the " Modification of 



Simple and Compound Eyes of Insects," 



by Mr. B. T. Lowne 



Westwood's " Classification of Insects," 2 vols. ;^ 



Gegenbaur's " Elements of Comparative 



Anatomy," 1 vol. ; Hinck's " British 



Hydroid Zoophytes," 2 vols.; "Huxley's 



Anatomy of Vertebrate Animals," 1 vol. ; 



Nicholson's " Manual of Zoology," 1 vol. J 



Two Slides (Lung of Saw-grinder*) Mr. A. C. Cole. 



Photographs for the Club Album, of Mr. Guimaraens and Mr. Jno. 

 Bear. 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors, and especially to the 

 Dinner Committee for their valuable contribution. 



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,, Subscription, 

 from the Author. 



By the Dinner Com- 

 mittee of the Q.M.C., 

 l the funds having been 

 placed at their disposal 

 by members of the Club. 



* This lung was removed at a post mortem examination of a man known to have died 

 from the effects of his work, and supplied 1 he typical specimen upon which the late 

 Dr. J. C. Hall (who sent the lung to Mr. Cole) founded his successful agitation in the 

 columns of the Times for ameliorating the condition of the workpeople. 



