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PROCEEDINGS. 



December 17th, 1869 — Chairman, Dr. R. Braithwaite, 



F.L.S., V.P. 



The following donations were announced : — 



" Land and Water " from the Editor. 



" Science Gossip" the Publisher. 



Two Nos. " Chemical News" the Editor. 



"Eeport of Excursions" ... -v 



" List of Members of the Geologists' Association" f the Geologists' 



" The Chief Forms of Cephalopoda," by Eev. Thos. C Association. 



Willshire ... ... J 



One slide of supposed Skin of Man from the door of 



the Pyx Chamber, Westminster Abbey Mr. H. F. Hailes. 



The eleven gentlemen proposed at the last meeting were ballotted for and duly 

 elected. 



Mr. B. T. Lowne gave a short resume of some of his work during the past 

 year upon the Anatomy of the Fly, and entered chiefly upon those questions 

 relating to its metamorphosis, which his observations had contributed to 

 solve. 



The Chairman, in tendering a vote of thanks to Mr. Lowne, expressed bis 

 own gratification at the able manner in which the subject had been treated, 

 and complimented Mr. Lowne upon the issue of his new work, which he con- 

 sidered to be one which did great honour to the Author and to the Club of 

 which he was a member. 



Mr. Mclntire made a few critical observations upon the paper recently pub- 

 lished by Dr. Piggot upon the Markings on the Podura Scale. 



Mr Lowne was of opinion that the scales consisted of two layers, and that 

 although he had never examined the Podura Scale, yet from analogy he was sure 

 the layers existed. 



The Chairman announced that Mr. Sterne, President of the Liverpool 

 Microscopical Club, was present at the meeting. 



Mr. T. C. White read a short paper on the Crystallization of Hippuric Acid. 



The Secretary read a letter just received from America, the writer of which 

 asked the Club to furnish him with a first-class microscope to aid him in his in- 

 vestigations upon the growth and habits of the cotton worm. 



The Chairman thought that the funds of the club were not sufficiently 

 flourishing to enable them to comply with the request. 



The Secretary called attention to a beautiful specimen of Photographic 

 Printing by the Albertype process, lent for exhibition by Mr Groves. He also 

 stated that Mr. Groves had again communicated with Herr Albert as to the 

 price of the prints, and found that the amount ho had stated at the previous 

 meeting was quite correct. 



