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FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 



The publication of the forty-second Annual Report enables your 

 Committee to point to the maintenance of the Club's previous 

 good position during the last twelve months. 



During 1907 forty-eight new members were elected. This 

 number, although smaller than that for 1906, which was 

 phenomenal, is well in advance of the average for the period 

 1897-1906, which was 41*3. By resignation the Club loses 

 twenty-eight members, and by death four members have been 

 removed. This leaves a net gain of sixteen members; the 

 total membership shown by the books on December 31st, 1907, 

 being 451. 



The attendance at both ordinary and informal meetings has 

 been very good, the highest figure being 131 for the January 

 meeting. Exhibits at the meetings have been interesting but 

 not always too numerous, and your Committee has to reiterate 

 the suggestion made last year that our " gossip " nights are 

 opportunities for specialists to display objects which, though no 

 novelty to those who study them, are quite otherwise to those 

 who have not done so. 



Among the communications received by the Club may be noted : 



Jan. Hymenolepis nitida and H. niti- 



dulans ..... Mr. T. B. Bosseter. 

 Feb. President's Address. A Beview 



of Photomicrography . . Dr. E. J. Spitta. 

 Mar. On Water-bears {Tardigrada) . Mr. Jas. Murray. 

 „ An Alona and a Pleuroxus new 



to Britain .... Mr. D. J. Scourfield. 

 April. The Collection and Preservation 



of Fresh- water Bhizopods . Dr. E. Penard. 

 May. Becent Foraminifera of Victoria Mr. F. Chapman. 

 June. Brachionus serious, n. sp. . . Mr. C. F. Bousselet. 

 Oct. Three Water - mites new to 



Britain Mr. G. P. Deeley. 



A Note on Navicula Smithii . Mr. A. A. C. Eliot 



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Merlin. 



