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PROCEEDINGS. 

 January 14th, 1876. — Conversational Meeting 



The following objects were exhibited : — 

 Wing of Chrysolista Linneella 

 Scales of Carp... 



Absorption spectra of Cantharides 

 Oolitic Limestone, Section ... 

 Podnra Scale, under gth objective ... 

 Section of Eush, stained 



Mr. Enock. 

 Mr. A. H. Halley. 

 Mr. Ingpen. 

 Mr. Martinelli. 

 Mr. Swift. 

 Mr. Topping. 



Attendance — Members, 58 ; Visitors, 5 ; Total, 63. 



January 28th, 1876.— Dr. J. Matthews, F.R.M.S., President, 



in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following additions to the Library were announced: — 

 " The Monthly Microscopical Journal" ... ... from the Publisher 



" Science Gossip" 



" Popular Science Eeview" ... 



" Proceedings of the Eoyal Society" 



„ „ Geological Association 



" The American Naturalist" 



" The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science" 



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 >» 



„ the Society. 



„ the Association 

 in exchange, 

 by purchase. 



Mr. W. Bowcher, Dr. Thos. Cotton, Mr. G. Dilnott, Mr. John Faulkner, 

 and Mr. John Woollett, were balloted for, and duly elected members of the 

 Club. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Fullagar in continuation of his paper 

 on Actinophrys. 



The Secretary said that, knowing how much the members of the Club 

 were always interested in any new matters connected with microscopy, he 

 had asked Mr. Swift to allow him to exhibit and describe his latest produc- 

 tion, an extremely portable binocular microscope. At first sight it might be 

 thought to resemble a victim of a recent railway collision, but though a con- 

 fused mass as taken from the box, when properly adjusted and set up, it was 

 as pretty a little binocular as could be seen, and it was *iot only pretty but 

 also very useful. By turning the body a quarter round, it could be conve- 



