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PROCEEDINGS. 



September 23rd, 1870. — Chairman, Dr. Lionel S. Beale, 



F.R.S., President. 



The following donations to the club were announced : — 



from the Editor, 

 the Publisher. 



J 



" Land and Water," (weekly) 



" The Monthly Microscopical Journal" 



" Science Gossip " 



11 The American Naturalist " ... 



Keport of the Surgeon General of the U.S. 

 Army, on certain points of the Histo- 

 logy of minute blood vessels, illus- 

 trated by 13 micro-photographs ; also 

 his report on the use of the oxy calcium 

 light in micro-photography 



Cooke's Handbook of Fungi (Part 1)... 



Dr. Deane's Work on the gray substance 

 of the Medulla 



Dr. Brewster's Treatise on the Microscope 



25 Slides of Marine Algae 



1 Slide of Winged Seed 



3 Slides of Chigoes 



1 Slide of Gizzard of Cockchafer 



The thanks of the club were returned to the donors. 



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

 club: — Mr. George Cheverton, Mr. Rochfort Connor, Mr. William Delamore, 

 Mr. Lamartine Burdett Yeoman. 



Mr. B. T. Lowne read a paper upon " So-called Spontaneous Generation and 

 the recent experiments described by Dr. Bastian." 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Lowne for his elaborate and interesting paper was 

 proposed by the President and carried unanimously. 



Mr. M. C. Cooke said that although he did not intend to make any remarks 

 upon the theory of the subject, he could not help doing so upon some of the 

 facts. As for agglutinated atoms forming fungus spores, he could only say 

 this was so extraordinary that he should be very glad to see the fungus spores 

 so formed, more especially because it is not so easy to say what is a fungus 

 spore and what is not. There were very few — he might say there were none — 

 which gave no evidence of a pedicel, so that if these bodies were fungus spores 



in exchange. 



Lieut.-Col. Woodward. 



Mr. Quick. 



Mr. M. C. Cooke. 



Mr. C. Adcock, of Jersey. 

 Mr. C. Collins. 

 Dr. Gray. 

 Mr. Quick. 



