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specimens, from Professor Hyrtl, of Vienna, and from Dr. Leopold Kirchner, 

 of Caplitz, and stating tlieir wishes to exchange. 



The President then delivered an address {see page 95.) 



Mr. Watkins and Mr. M'Intire moved and seconded a vote of thanks to tha 

 Presideut, which was carried unanimously. 



Papers were announced for the next meeting by Mr, Moore and Mr. 

 Martinelli ; and the meeting adjourned. 



AUGUST 28th, 1868. 

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



The President, on taking the chair, expressed his gratification at meeting 

 the members on the commencement of another year's proceedings. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 



The following names were proposed for membership : — Mr. Charles Cecil Capel, 

 Mr. Arthur Robert Andrew, Mr. James E. Eddy, Mr. J. W. Spencer Warre. 



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

 subsequently declared duly elected. 



The following donations were onnounced : — 



A new Collecting Bottle, from Mr. Wright ; " The Catalogue of the Paris 

 Exhibition of Insects of August, 1868," from Mr. E. T. Lewis ; ' ' The Natural- 

 ists' Circular," from the Editor ; " Science Gossip," from the Publisher. 



Thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



The following objects were announced for exhibition: — 



Wing of a Mosquito, by Mr. M'Intire ; Foramenifera, from Dog's Bay, co. 

 Galway, from Mr. Glover by Mr. Euffle ; a new Portable Dissecting Microscope, 

 by Mr. Hooper ; a new form of Collecting Bottle, by Mr. Wright ; the Electric 

 Spark from an induction coil, with magnesium terminals, shewn under the 

 Microscope by Mr. Golding. 



Mr. Martinelli read a paper " On the Tubules in the Shell of the Crab." 



The author of this paper recommended the use of hydrochloric acid, and also 

 of heat, in treating the crab shell, in order to exhibit the tubules clearly. 



Mr. Breese expressed his conviction that the use of either of these methods 

 would destroy all appearance of tubules, and thought from the low power, used 

 by Mr. Martinelli, that he could not be speaking of the same appearances 

 described in a previous paper by Mr. Slade, which required a power of about 

 1300 to shew them. 



This opinion was subsequently confirmed by the examination of Mr. Marti- 

 nelli's specimens ; and Mr. Slade thought that the cavities seen in them had 

 been produced by dissolving out the lime. 



Mr. Wright's collecting bottle was exhibited by Mr. Brain. The apparatus 

 is described at page 111. 



Mr. Mclntire brought before the meeting the subject of the identity of the 

 mosquito and the English gnat. Some time ago he felt much interested in the 

 subject of mosquitoes, and through the medium of "' Science Gossip," he had 



