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In place of — 



X. That at the Ordinary Meetings the following shall be the Order of 

 Business : — 



(1.) The Minutes of the last meeting shall be read and proposed for 

 confirmation, and signed by the Chairman 



(2.) Donations to the Club since the last meeting shall be announced 

 and exhibited. 



(3.) Certificates for new members shall be read . 



(4.) Ballots for new members shall be taken, 



" TJiat at the Ordinary Meetings the following business he transacted : — 

 The minutes of the last Meeting shall be read and confirmed. 

 Donations to the Club since the last Meeting announced and exhibited. 

 Sallotafor new Members taken. 

 Papers read and discu,ssed, and 

 Certificates for new Members read ; 

 after which the Meeting shall resolve itself into a Conversazione. " 



In place of — 



XI. That every member shall have the privilege of introducing one visitor at 

 the Ordinary Meetings, who shall enter his name, together with the name of 

 the member by whom he is introduced, in a book to be kept for this purpose. 



" That any Member may introduce a Visitor at any Ordinary Meeting, who shall 

 enter his name, with tliat of the Member by lolwm he is introduced, in a book to be 

 kept for the purpose. " 



Each amendment having been separately put from the chair and declared 

 carried, the business of the special meeting terminated. 



The minutes of the last ordinary meeting were read and approved . 



The following donations were announced :—" Scientific Opinion," from the 

 Publisher; " Science Gossip," from the Publisher ; "Land and Water," from 

 the Editor; "The Monthly Microscopical Journal," from the Publisher; 

 " Regulations of the Biological and Microscopical Department of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," from Mr. M. C. Cooke ; two slides from 

 Mr. Curties ; six slides from Mr. Quick ; a simplified live box (as described in 

 " Science Gossip," p. 66, March, 1867, and p. 115, May, 1869), from J. W. 

 Meacher. 



Thanks were presented to the donors. 



Twenty gentlemen proposed at the last meeting were then balloted for, and 

 subsequently declared duly elected. 



The following gentlemen were proposed as members: — Mr. Charles J. Beale, 

 Mr. W. F. Burgess, Mr. W. Houghton, Mr. Henry Humphreys, B.A., 

 Mr. Charles E. Layton, Mr. Benjamin Lemmon, Mr. John Samuel Linford, 

 Mr. Horatio Pass, Mr. Lewis Pocock, jun., Mr. Llewellyn Powell, M.R.C.S., 

 and Mr. John Henry Roberts, F.R.M.S. 



The President announced the following, among other objects for exhibition. 

 A Living polype on a fragment of whelk shell, obtained off Southend (probably 

 Podocoryne areolata), shown by Mr. Allbon ; Noctiluea miliaris, alive, also 

 from Southend, shown by Mr. W. W. Reeves ; Distoma and other Entozoa from 

 the lung of a Frog, by Mr. J. Slade; some remarkable Crystals of Sulphate of 

 Zinc, and also of Asparagine, and a very fine injected section of Human Brain, 



