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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the meeting of the Club held on January 27th, 1908, Dr. 

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

 minutes of the meeting held on December 20th, 1907, were 

 read and confirmed. 



Messrs. C. C. Dallas, C. C. Pattison, A. Nicholson, A. E. Levin, 

 and T. C. Cooling were balloted for and duly elected members of 

 the Club. 



Nominations for officers and council for the ensuing session 

 were taken. Professor E. A. Minehin, M.A., Professor of Proto- 

 zoology in the University of London, was nominated as President. 



The Hon. Secretary regretted to announce that both Mr. W. 

 Wesche and Mr. Rosseter, who had promised papers for this 

 meeting, were prevented by illness from being present. 



The President drew attention to the exhibit by Messrs. Watson 

 of a largo number of preparations of insects and insect parts. 

 The thanks of the meeting were accorded to Mr. F. W. Watson 

 Baker, F.R.M.S., for arranging the exhibit. 



Messrs. Baker exhibited with the lantern a number of in- 

 teresting slides, mostly photomicrographs, of pond-life and other 

 low organisms, also one of a section of human scalp, taken on 

 a Lnmiere antochrome plate, which was much admired. 



Mr. E. Large, with the projection polariscope, exhibited on the 

 screen a number of preparations, many of them very beautiful, of 

 thin slices of selenite. Some of the specimens were geometrical 

 patterns artificially made, and were extremely effective, especially 

 when the object or the nicol was rotated. Mr. Large also exhibited 

 a number of photomicrographs of twinned crystals of selenite. 



The President said he greatly regretted to have to announce 

 the sudden death of a member who was well known to many of 



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