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The following gentlemen were balloted for, and duly elected members of 

 the Club : — Mr. Charles M. Bayfield, Mr. John Bealah, Mr. Francis Cunning, 

 ham, the Rev. Thomas Freckelton, and Mr. Alexander G. Halley. 



The President called attention to the slides which had been presented to 

 the cabinet that evening, and requested the gentlemen who had given them, 

 to favour the meeting with a few words by way of description. 



Mr. B. T. Lewis said that the four slides which he had brought were 

 portions of the Edelweiss, a rare and beautiful flower well known to all who 

 had travelled much in Switzerland. The plant grew only in the higher 

 mountain pastures, was of a pure white, and densely covered in every part 

 with a kind of down ; the separated flowerets were surrounded by a tuft 

 of feathery hairs, and were very pretty objects under the microscope, 

 particularly when well illuminated by the paraboloid. Two of the slides in 

 question were of these flowerets, mounted dry and in balsam ; the third 

 was a petal with its downy covering ; and the fourth a portion of the down 

 separately mounted for the polariscope. He had brought the slides because 

 he did not think they were represented in the cabinet of the Club, and also 

 because he thought the Club should not be forgotten during one's holiday 

 rambles. A fine specimen of the flower itself was exhibited, which was 

 obtained in the Ober Engadine, at an elevation of about 10,000 feet. 



Mr. Curties said he had the pleasure of presenting several slides, con- 

 taining various species of Aulaco discus, mounted opaque and transparent, 

 from a gathering made by Mr. Martin, of H.M.S. Spiteful, during the late 

 Congo expedition. The slides were contributed to the Q. M. C. by Mr. 

 Redward, of Portsea, who reported that Diatomists are not quite agreed as 

 to species. He hoped that the Club would be favoured with information 

 respecting them at a future time. 



The President, in moving the thanks of the Club for the donations and 

 the descriptions given of them, said he had seen the specimens of Aulaco- 

 discus, and thought they were extremely well prepared. 



The President intimated that they were indebted to Mr. Lowne for a 

 number of copies of his address, delivered at the opening of the Medical 

 School in connection with Middlesex Hospital. It was of much interest, and 

 he could commend it heartily to all as a very fair representation of the 

 present state of scientific medicine. 



Mr. B. T. Lowne gave a very interesting account of the Carnivorous or 

 Insectivorous plants, describing and illustrating by diagrams the general 

 appearance and structure of the leaf of the Drosera, and detailing the 

 process of insect-catching. He expressed the hope that some of the mem- 

 bers of the Club would give careful attention to the subject, which could 

 not fail to yield interesting and useful results. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Lowne for his communi- 

 cation. 



Mr. T. C. White read a paper " Ou the Histology of the Hard Dental 

 Tissues," which he illustrated by coloured diagrams. 



The President thought they had received from Mr. White a most lucid 

 explanation of an intensely difficult subject. His own attention had been 



