PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



'.97 



The death on July 12 of Mr. John Hood, a Fellow of the Society 

 since the year 1881, was recorded with regret. For many years he 

 collected Rotifera for Mr. P. H. Gosse, Dr. C. T. Hudson, and many 

 others, and wrote several papers on Rotifera ; be also discovered a good 

 many new species of Rotifers in the Scottish Lochs and the pools 

 around Dundee. 



The Chairman further said that he had been asked by Mr. Ogilvy 

 to call the attention of the Society to the fact that he and several 

 coadjutors were making an effort to get up lectures in the nature of 

 entertainments for the benefit of our soldiers in camps, who were waiting 

 to be sent on foreign service, or were training for home defence, thereby 

 hoping to lighten the periods of idleness and lack of occupation and 

 amusement which must be felt during the long winter evenings. These 

 lectures would take the form of interesting and popular discourses on 

 zoology, natural history, medicine, and hygiene, in so far as these subjects 

 were likely to affect the men in the field and camp. Mr. Ogilvy would 

 be glad to have the names of any Fellows of the Society who would be 

 willing to offer their services as lecturers, or who would throw themselves 

 into the sciieme by lending Microscopes or lantern slides, and arrange- 

 ments would be made to convey both the lecturers and their apparatus 

 and demonstrations by motor car to and from the camps. He was quite 

 sure that such a scheme would appeal to the sympathies of the Fellows 

 and meet with a cordial reception, in the knowledge that they were 

 doing a real service to these men by affording them interest and enter- 

 tainment in a life which, when the day's work is over, was apt to be 

 monotonous, and devoid of interest. 



The following Rotifera were exhibited : — 



Mr. C. F. Rousselet 



J. Milton Offord . 

 Mr. Daniel Davies 

 Mr. Robert Paulson 

 Mr. C. F. Rousselet 



Mr. G. K. Dunstall 

 Mr. E. E. Banham 

 Mr. C. F. Rousselet 



Mr. E. Guzner 

 Mr. E. E. Banham 

 Mr. David Bryce . 



Mr. C. F. Rousselet 

 Mr. S. C. Akehurst 

 Mr. H. Jewell 

 Mr. C. F. Rousselet 



Anursea aculeata. 

 Atiurseopsis hypelasma. 

 A splanchna briyhtwelli. 

 Brachionus pala. 

 Oalidina nana, 

 Cephalosiphon limnias. 

 Diurella Dixon- Nuttalli. 

 Habrotrocha pusilla, etc. 

 Hydatina senta. 

 Limnias ceratophylli. 

 L. cornuella. 

 Melicerta ringens. 

 Metopidia lepadella. 

 Pkilodina aculeata. 

 P. roseola. 



Polyarthra platyptera. 

 Steplianoceros Eichh ornii. 



Ditto ditto. 

 Synchseta oblonya. 

 S. pectinaia. 



