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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 18th February, 1914, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 Professor G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., etc., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting- of January 21, 1914, were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) re- 

 ceived since the last Meeting was read as follows, and the thanks of the 

 Society were accorded to the donors : — 



From 



Houghton, W., The Microscope. 4th ed .. Mr. John Hopkiiison. 



St. Vincent, M. Bory de, Essai d'une Classification des} ^-,, 



Animaux rnicroscopiques. 1826 J 



Loeb, J., Artificial Parthenogenesis, etc The Publishers. 



Hind and Randies, Handbook of Photomicrography. 1913 Ditto 



Shelford, E. V., Animal Communities in Temperate I j^... 



America j 



A paper by the Rev. Hilderic Friend, F.R.M.S., entitled " British 

 Enchytneids. VI. New Species and Revised List," was then read by 

 the Secretary, and a very hearty vote of thanks was unanimously 

 accorded to the author for his valuable contribution to the Society's 

 records. 



Mr. D. J. Scourfield, F.Z.S., then made a communication on " The 

 Methods of Collecting, Examining, and Preserving Entomostraca," 

 prefacing his demonstration with the suggestion that many workers 

 regarded systematic methods as superfluous so far as concerned the 

 organisms under consideration. This might be true with regard 

 to the commoner species, but if the study of Entomostraca was taken 

 seriously special methods of collecting were necessary, and even the 

 services of other organisms in the lakes and ponds might be secured. 

 For example, the first record of Bosmina coregoni was from the stomach 

 of a Vendace caught in Lochmaben Castle Loch, in Scotland ; and, 

 similarly, he had first found the very rare Monospilus dispar in the 

 stomach of the roach from a particular pond in Epping Forest. With 

 regard to apparatus, the simple hand-net fixed to a stick was undoubtedlv 



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