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QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



MARCH 19th, 1869. 

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



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved . 



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

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

 the Editor; " On the Caudal Heart of the Eel," from Dr. Wharton Jones; 

 The Copper Plates of Dr. Hooke's ' Micrographia," 1745, from Mr. J. J. Fox; 

 "The Monthly Microscopical Journal," from the Publisher ; Michael Colombo's 

 " Mikroskopische Beobachlungen von Polypen des Sussen Wassers," and 

 Eichorn's "Beytrage zur natur geschichte der Kleinsten Wasser," from Mr. Jno. 

 Wheldon; some casts of Diatoms from Dr. Maddox; a series of Micro-Photographs, 

 and two bottles of Diatoms, from Professor Arthur Mead Edwards, of New 

 York ; two slides of Deep Sea Soundings, from Mr. Hailes ; and six slides from 

 Mr. Slade. 



Thanks to the donors were voted unanimously. 



The following gentlemen were proposed for membership : — Mr Henry Long, 

 Mr. Charles Frederick White, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Delferier, Jan., Mr. 

 Thomas H. Collins, Mr. T. G. Smart, Mr. Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Henry Law- 

 eon, Mr. Arthur Edwin Quekett, Mr. Alfred J. S. Quekett, Rev. William 

 Quekett. 



Thirteen gentlemen proposed at the previous meeting were then ballotted for, 

 and subsequently declared duly elected. 



The Eev. E. C. Bolles, President of the Portland (Maine, U.S.A.), Society 

 of Natural History, and M. Alphonse de Brebisson, of Palaise, Normandy, were 

 proposed and duly elected honorary members of the Club. 



Among other objects announced for exhibition was Amphipleura pellucida, 

 by Mr. Thomas Powell. 



Mr. Suffolk read a paper " On a Method of Drying Microscopic Objects." 



The thanks of the meeting were presented to the author of the paper. 



A discussion ensued, which mainly turned on the construction of a vessel 

 capable of containing ether, without allowing it to evaporate. Various materials 

 were sugajested for the joint, including cork pressed upon an edge, vulcanised 

 rubber, and gold beaters' skin. 



Mr, T. F. Wight read a paper " On a Method of Coating Glass Chimneys." 

 The method simjjly consisted in making a mixture of whiting, or plaster of Paris 

 and water, and coating the inside of the glass chimney, allowing it to dry, and 

 then removing the portion through which the light was required to pass. 



Mr. Slade then gave a detailed description of the slides which he had pre- 

 sented to tlie Cabinet. 



The President announced the first field excursion for Saturday, April 3rd, to 

 Hampstead Heath, and also stated that at the next meeting Mr. B T. Lowne 

 woald furnish " Some further remarks on the Proboscis of the Blow Fly." 



The meeting terminated in the usual manner, 



