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June 27th, 1879. — Ordinary Meeting. 



Professor T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 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. Wm. Readaway, Mr. Geo. D. Sawyer, Mr. Jas. Willson, and 

 Mr. Francis Wood. 



Eight gentlemen were proposed as Members, and two as Honorary Mem- 

 bers of the Club. 



The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



"Proceedings of the Royal Society" ... from the Society. 

 „ „ Royal Microscopical) 



Society" ... ) 



" Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopi- ") 



cal Society " ) 



" The American Naturalist " ... ... in Exchange. 



<c Science Gossip" from the Publisher. 



" Annals of Natural History " ... ... Purchased. 



"Grevillea" „ 



" Van Hourck on the Microscope" from Mr. F. Crisp. 



" Parasites and Entozoa," by Dr. Cobbold ... „ Mr. T. C. White. 



One Slide „ Mr. H. Morland. 



Six Slides of Micro-rulings ... .. ... „ Mr. W. Teasdale. 



Six French Natural History Diagrams ... ,, Mr. R. T. Lewis. 



One Photograph — for the Album ... ... „ Mr. J. J. Vezey. 



The thanks of the Meeting were voted to the donors. 



The Secretary read the following note by Mr. R. T. Lewis, with reference 

 to the diagrams above named : — 



"A question in the June number of ( Science Gossip,' as to where 

 tolerably cheap but good plates of birds' eggs, &c, could be obtained, re- 

 minded me of a large, and upon the whole, very excellent series of diagrams 

 which had often attracted my attention when in Paris, and to which a 

 passing reference was made in an article which appeared in ' Science 

 Gossip,' in October, 1858. The series in question numbers, according to the 

 latest list, 190 sheets, 22in. X 27in., each containing from 50 to 300 figures, 

 the subjects embracing almost every topic likely to be of interest to the 

 scientific, artistic, or mechanical amateur. Believing that these publications 

 deserve to be better known in England, and that many of them might be at 

 least as useful to others as they have been to myself, I have ventured to 

 bring them under the notice of our members in the most practical of possible 

 ways — namely, by procuring and presenting to the Club a few specimens of 

 the plates themselves. In most instances they may be had either plain or 

 coloured, and in the case of Natural History sheets the names are given in 

 Latin as well as in French. Their size being rather large for an ordinary 



