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PROCEEDINGS 



Mr. Archer. 



June 24th, 1870 — Chairman, Dr. R. Braithwaite, F.L.S., V.P. 



The following donations were announced : — 



" Science Gossip" ... from the Publisher. 



" Land and Water " (weekly) the Editor. 



"The American Naturalist" in Exchange. 



" Transactions and Proceedings of the Edinburgh) . v 



Botanical Society " f 



Dr. Carpenter's <c Principles of Human Physiology" Mr. John Michels. 



Suffolk's " Microscopical Manipulation " The Author. 



50 Slides Mr. M. C. Cooke. 



Also, for distribution amongst the members, a 



number of Packets of Washings from the I 



Lambeth Whiteing Works, containing Spicula, 



Foraminifera, &c 



Copies of " Chambre noir et le Microscope Photo- ] 



micrographie Practique," by Monsieur Jules r 



vJ LI ill Li in ••• •*• ••• »«» ••• / 



' The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



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

 Club :— Dr. Lionel S. Beale, F.R.S., &c, Mr. A. E. Birch, Mr. W. J. Brown, 

 Mr. Samuel J. Hawkins, Dr. Henry G. Knaggs, F.L.S., Mr. Wm. N. Locking- 

 ton, Mr. F. W. H. Preston, Mr. William Smith, Mr. Ernest Swaine. 



Mr. M. C. Cooke read a communication from Mr. F. Kitton, of Norwich, 

 "On the Diatoms of the Morz Deposit of Jutland." 



The thanks of the meeting were returned to Mr. Kitton for his paper. 



Mr.M. C. Cooke also read an extract from the letter of a New York corres- 

 pondent, stating that at a recent meeting there had been exhibited there a 

 specimen of Pleurosigma angulatum, magnified 98,000 diameters, with plenty of 

 light and clear definition. The extent of this amplification might be judged 

 from the fact that the diameter of the field just included 4 J spherules, and 15 of 

 them covered the circular field of view. It was the finest exhibition of the kind 

 which the writer had yet seen. The exhibitor on the occasion was Mr. Dickin- 

 son ; the object-glass l-30th inch, by Wales, with No. 13 eye-piece, excellent 

 illumination being obtained by one of Abram's condensers. 



The Chairman said that a proposition had been made by Mr. Ross, which he 

 had been requested to communicate to the meeting. It was that at the ap- 



