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* 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 21st Octobek, 1914, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 

 E. Heron-Allen, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of June 17, 1914, were read, and 

 when confirmed were signed by the Chairman. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) received 

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

 were accorded to the donors : — 



From 

 Professor Sigmund's Histological Preparations. Part 8, ( Messrs. Carl Zeiss, 

 with text I London. 



The Chairman said it had been considered desirable to announce 

 from the Chair that the Conversazione which should ordinarily have 

 taken place that evening had been postponed owing to circumstances 

 over which indeed they had no control, but which, however, it was to be 

 hoped would not affect them as a scientific society. He wished to say 

 that a debt of gratitude was due from all to Messrs. Scourfield and 

 Rousselet for the immense amount of trouble they had taken in the 

 preparations for that Conversazione, some of the results of which were 

 being exhibited to Fellows of the Society that evening. They had 

 thrown themselves into the scheme with the enthusiasm all knew they 

 possessed, and they and their friends had drawn upon their inexhaustible 

 stores and brought together an exhibition of Entomostraca and Rotif era 

 which would, he knew, be greatly appreciated by all. He would ask 

 Mr. Scourfield and Mr. Rousselet to say a few words on the subject of 

 this exhibition. 



Mr. Scourfield in the course of his remarks on the exhibition of 

 Rotifers and Entomostraca, said that it had been considered advisable 

 to arrange occasionally an exhibition of a particular group or groups of 

 organisms with the help of those who had not specialized in that direc- 

 tion, for not only should such an exhibition prove of benefit to the 

 exhibitors themselves, but it would be useful in aiding Fellows and 

 visitors to concentrate their attention for a little while on some one or 

 two types of microscopic life. He wished to take the opportunity of 

 thanking those who had responded so well in giving up their own 

 exhibits that evening in order to come forward and show things with 

 which they were not perhaps specially familiar. 



It was unfortunate that certain forms of the Entomostraca and 

 Rotif era were not easily obtainable just when required, and so in order 



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