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Mr. Draper, that there should be a Quekett Club Portfolio, to contain the 

 drawings made by members from their original observations, and he was very 

 desirous of seeing this suggestion carried out. Mr. Waller further deserved the 

 thanks of the meeting for his desire to be a iiseful member of the Club ; he 

 hoped that many more members would be stimulated with the same desire, and 

 would give the results of their observations to the members at the meetings — 

 there need be no fear that subjects might not be interesting, for all might rest 

 assured that, if interesting to themselves, it could not fail to be interesting to 

 others when communicated ; for interest in a subject was undoubtedly catching. 

 Dr. Matthews introduced and described a new form of turn-table, and read a 

 paper " On a new method of sub-stage illumination." 



The Chairman, in moving a vote of thanks to Dr. Matthews, expressed the 

 pleasure he had felt in listening to his remarks, and characterized the improved 

 form of turn-table as one of the most ingenious contrivances he had yet seen for 

 the purpose. 



Mr. S. J. Mclntire said that he had the pleasure a short time since of spending 

 an evening with Dr. Matthews, and was much pleased with the results obtained 

 by the new method of illumination. He had himself been for some time working 

 with one of Powell and Lealand's achromatic condensers, and took this with him 

 for comparison, but was not very successful in using it on that occasion. He 

 would not, however, say that the new method was better than his own condenser, 

 but the difference in the cost was considerable, being only that of the means for 

 fixing one's own object-glass below the stage, and he might say that thus the 

 best results could be obtained for twenty-five shillings. 



Votes of thanks to Mr. Waller and Dr. Matthews were then carried 

 unanimously. 



Mr. Curties said that he had the misfortune to be one of those persons 

 described by Dr. Matthews as "fettered beings," but he had however been able 

 recently to make an excursion on his own account, and it was to the Admiralty, 

 at Whitehall. Having to wait some time he found that one side of the waiting 

 room was covered by a picture containing about 600 microscopic forms drawn by 

 Lieut. Palmer, during one of his voyages. Feeling sure that this waiting-room 

 was not well known, he thought it would be a matter of interest to many of the 

 members to hear of what was to be seen in it. The picture is of large size and 

 represents many forms from the animal kingdom, as well as those of surface 

 ocean life and microscopic life met with during the voyage ; in addition to the 

 objects there is a chart showing the course of the vessel, every care being taken 

 to give the temperature of the water with the latitude and longitude where the 

 dredgings took place. In reply to a question from Mr. Ruffle, Mr Curties also 

 stated that the picture could be viewed by any person who visited the place. 



The Chairman directed the attention of the members to a very valuable 

 addition to the library of the club, the whole of the First and Second Series of 

 the Annals of Natural History, which had been recently purchased at a mode- 

 rate cost, and which could not fail to be of great service to many members as 

 works of reference. 



The Secretary announced that the following objects were exhibited : — 

 Teeth of Leech ... ... ... ... by Mr. Conder. 



Test objects, shown by the new mode of sub-) -p Matthews 



stage illumination ... ... J 



Head and Eyes of Spider ... ... ... Mr. Golding. 



Special attention was also called to a number of very beautiful coloured draw- 

 ings of the eggs of Lepidoptera and other microscopic objects kindly lent for 

 exhibition by Mr. Millett. R. T. Lewis. 



