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APRIL 23rd, 1869. 

 Arthur E. Durham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The minates of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



The following donations were announced :—" Science Gossip," from the 

 Publisher; " Land and Water,'' from the Editor ; "The Proceedings of the 

 Bristol Natural History Society," from the Society; " The Proceedings of the 

 Portland (Maino, U. S. A.) Society," from the Society ; "Scientific Opinion," 

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

 a slide of Brazilian Beetle, mounted between two pieces of thin glass, 

 from Mr. W. H, Golding ; four varieties of Crystals of Santonine, 

 from Mr. Hislop ; four slides of Diatoms, from Mr. Kitton ; and 165 slides from 

 Mr. M. C. Cooke. 



The thanks of the meeting were presented to the donors. 



The following gentlemen were -proposed for membership : — Mr. Charles 

 Edward Bean, Mr. Henry W. Lowe, Mr- Walter B. Cole, Mr. Arthur Cottam, 

 F.R.A.S., Mr. Edward Evans, Mr. E Farmer, F.R.M.S., F.G.S., Mr. George 

 Holmes Fryer, Mr. D. Ibbetson, Mr Edmund Albert Letts, Mr. Henry 

 Matthews, Dr. John Millar, F.L.S., G.S , R.M.S., Mr. William B. Pepler, 

 Mr. William J. Rowley, Mr Samuel W. Scoble, Professor J. B. Simonds, Mr. 

 Henry G. Sketchley, Mr. F. J. Thirlwall, Mr Henry Walker, Mr. M. Welsh, 

 Mr. Charles Henry Wood. 



The President gave notice, on the part of the Committee, that the next meeting 

 of the Club would be made special for the purpose of considering certain alter- 

 ations in the laws, which were read to the meeting. 



A number of specimens were announced for exhibition. 



Mr. Lowne then read : ' ' Some further remarks on the Anatomy of the Blow 

 Fly." 



A vote of thanks was given to Mr . Lowne. 



A discussion ensued. See page 193, 



Ml . Love exhibited and described a new form of turn-table, in which the glass 

 slip was held by checks, so as to make it self-centering. 



Mr. Hislop pointed out that the same result might be obtained more simply by 

 placing two pins at opposite sides of the centre of the revolving plate, against 

 each of which the opposite sides of the slip being made to bear, the instrument 

 would be self-centering, without reference to any slight variation of the width 

 of the slip. The screws securing the springs, would answer the same purpose 

 if placed exactly opposite each other, and at the same distance from the 

 centre. 



Dr. Braithwaite drew attention to a fine specimen of a moss, AntitricMa 

 curtipendula, from the forest of Fontainebleau, which was rarely found in fruit 

 in this country, except at Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor 



Mr. Breese exhibited some sections of soft vegetable tissues, made by first 

 saturating the substance with gum before cutting. It then resembled the con- 

 sistence of cork. 



A letter was received from Mr. M. C. Cooke, enclosing one from the Rev. E. 

 0. Bolles, of Portland, U.S.A., returning thanks for his election as an honorary 

 foreign member. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated 



