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several varieties of them. He had with him a supply of these insects, and 

 should be most happy to distribute them amongst such members as were in- 

 terested about them. 



Mr. W. H. Golding made some suggestions to the meeting relative to the 

 desirability of giving the members free access to the library and cabinets at all 

 the meetings of the club, and to the arrangements necessary for so doing, 

 and after a few observations upon the subject from Mr. M. C. Cooke and the 

 President, the matter was considered as one to be dealt with by the Committee, 

 and it was referred to them as a recommendation. 



The result of the ballot having been handed in by the scrutineers, the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were declared by the President to be duly elected: — 



As President Dr. Lionel S. Beale, F.R.S., &c. 



f Dr. R. Braithwaite, F.L.S., &c. 



. .Jk t, . , . J Arthur E. Durham, F.L.S., &c. 



As Vice-Presidents < -^ T _ T „ . 



Henry Lee, F.L S., &c 



^ P. Le Neve Foster, M.A. 

 f Mr. Allbon, F.R.M.S. 



. , r . „ „ J Mr. T. W. Burr, F.R.A.S., &c. 



As Members of Committee -< K m w ,, , r,^,, 



j Mr. W. M. By water, F.E.M.S. 



^ Mr Charles F. White. 



As Treasurer Mr. R. Hardwicke. 



As Hon. Secretary Mr. T. C. White. 



As Hon. Secretary for Foreign Cor- ) Mjf< M> Q Cqo ^ M A 



respondence..... ' 



The President then formally left the chair, and installed his successor, who 

 was greeted with considerable applause. 



Dr. Lionel S. Beale, on taking his seat, begged leave to thank the mem- 

 bers of the club very heartily for the honour which they had conferred 

 upon him in electing him as their President, and expressed the great 

 pleasure which it would afford him to come amongst them. For the last sixteen 

 years he had been actively employed in lecturing and otherwise, the conse- 

 quence of which was that his work had been very much restricted to particular 

 subjects. In his early days there was no Quekett Club, and as it was his fate 

 to be early placed in a position of some public importance, it was necessary 

 that he should concentrate his attention, perhaps even more than Mr. Foster 

 would have recommended, and the consequence was that he was terribly ignorant 

 of other subjects. He had listened with the greatest pleasure to Mr. Foster's 

 address, and could endorse every word of it ; it had also given him great pleasure 

 to listen to the interesting paper of Mr. Mclntire, the result of which would, 

 no doubt, be that before long a great many cells of these little Polyxeni 

 would be in the hands of members, for this was a club of workers, and had 

 for its founder one of the most earnest workers which science had ever seen. 

 The following donations to the club were announced : — 



"Land and Water" (Weekly) from the Editor. 



Science Gossip " the Publisher. 



The Monthly Microscopical Journal " the Publisher. 



The Popular Science Review " the Publisher. 



" The American Naturalist," and the "Proceedings') In exchange for the 



of the Birmingham Natui'al History Society " j Journal of the Club. 



Eley's " Geology of the Garden " from Mr. Bockett. 



"The Microscope Made Easy," 1742 Mr. T. C. White. 



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