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QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



DECEMBER 27th, 1867. 



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



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 

 The following donations to the club were announced :— 



' ' Leeuwenhoek's Works," 3 Vols. ; " A Manual of Structural Botany ;" "A 

 Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi;" "Our Keptiles ;" De Serres and 

 Chabrieron " Insect Anatomy ;" Griffith's "Asiatic Cryptogamia and Atlas " 

 *'The Telescope and Microscope;" Otto Muller's "Von Wurmen;" Robin's 

 " Du Microscope et des Injections ;" Fonvielle's *' La Monde Invisible ;" 

 and Trembley's "Polypes" (in German), from Mr. M. C. Cooke; Quekett's 

 "Lectures on Histology," and Hannover "On the Microscope," from Mr. 

 Wheldon; "The Naturalist's Circular," from the Editor; and "Science 

 Gossip," from the Publisher ; six slides of ferns were presented by Mr. R. T. 

 Lewis, and specimens of Stephanoceros were sent by the Rev. John Hickley, 

 and sections of wood by Mr. J. Marshall, both through Mr. Curties, who also 

 contributed specimens of Conochilus, for distribution among the members. 



A vote of thanks was unanimously passed in acknowledgment of these 

 donations . 



The following gentlemen were proposed for membership :— Rev. Andrew 

 Johnson, M.A., Mr. Samuel Leith Tomkins, Mr. W. Warwick King, Mr. C. C. 

 Jewell, Mr. Fancourt Barnes, Mr. Alexis Ricca, Dr. John Macdonald, Mr. 

 W. H. Kirkby, Mr. C. J. Richardson, and Mr. F. J. Blandy. 



Dr. Arthur Mead Edwards, President of the American Microscopical Society, 

 of New York, was nominated, on the recommendation of the Committee, 

 as an honorary member of the Club. 



Eleven gentlemen, proposed at the previous meeting, were balloted for and 

 declared duly elected. 



The Honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence announced that he had 

 received a letter from Professor De Notaris, thanking the members for the 

 honour conferred upon him by his election as the first honorary foreign member, 

 and promising to forward a copy of his latest work on " Italian Desmids." Mr. 

 Cooke also announced that he had received some packets of diatomaceous earth 

 from North America for exchange among the members, and suggested that all 

 material and all slides sent in for the purpose should be correctly and clearly 

 named. 



Mr. Burgess then read the second part of his paper on "Wools," and the 

 thanks of the meeting were presented to that gentleman for his paper. 



Mr. Beckett directed the attention of the meeting to a simple live box, con- 

 eisting of a ring of brass with a central hole, about one-tenth of an inch in 



