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Mr. 0. F. Kousselet, F.R.M.S., said that Mr. Murray dealt 

 almost entirely with specimens from mosses. The moss was 

 simply dried, when the animal would secrete a drop of jelly 

 around itself, and could so remain alive for a long time. 

 Mr. Murray had examined mosses from very many parts of 

 the world. 



Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S., said he regretted that the easy 

 method — easy, that is, for beginners — of classification according 

 to eye-spots was to be done away with. The number of toes 

 is so very much more difficult to observe. 



Mr. F. P. Smith (Hon. Editor) made some remarks introducing 

 his paper on " British Spiders taken in 1907," which dealt with 

 some twenty species, including the addition of one species to the 

 British list. 



At the meeting of the Club held on December 20th, Dr. 

 E. J. Spitta, F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., in the Chair, the minutes 

 of the meeting held on November 15th were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. F. Holmes, F. F. Beckett, M. P. Swift, B. Evans, 

 A. S. Potter, and J. E. Pratt were balloted for and dulv elected 

 members of the Club. 



The President drew attention to the exhibition then before 

 the meeting of a number of interesting sections of injected 

 tissues prepared by Mr. E. J. Sheppard. 



In acknowledging the vote of thanks passed to him, Mr. 

 Sheppard drew special attention to the injected and stained 

 sections of the tongue, bladder, and gall-bladder of the 

 guinea-pig. 



Mr. J. I. Pigg, F. It. M.S., exhibited in the lantern an interesting 

 series of photomicrographs of the development of the maidenhair 

 fern from the spore to the prothallus, and also the different 

 stages in the production and growth of sporangia and the 

 scattering of the spores. 



The Hon. Secretary read a paper, communicated by Mr. 

 E. M. Nelson, F.R.M.S., entitled "Some Hairs upon the Pro- 

 boscis of the Blow-fly." 



Mr. W. Wesche thought that probably all the fine hairs on 

 the probosces of all flies are taste organs. They are usually at 

 the end of each of the tracheae, so that whatever is sucked up 



