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PROCEEDINGS. 



March 25th, 1870 — Chairman, P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., M.A., 



President. 



The following donations were announced : — 



"Science Gossip" ... from the Publisher. 



"The Monthly Microscopical Journal" ... the Publisher. 



"Land and Water," .• the Publisher. 



Four Volumes of "The Popular Science) Dr. R. Braithwaite, 



Review" ... ... ... ... ..•■' F.L.S. 



Twenty-one Slides of Diatoms in illustration ) M. Alphonse de Bre- 



of his paper read February 25th ' bisson. 



Two Slides of Hairs of Lion and Mantchurian ? -jy^ q Bennett Junr 



J../ I'd at* • a e ••• ••• ••* ••• 



Seven Slides of Atlantic Soundings, 3,600ft. ? -^ Y -^ rp L ew jg 



to 14,400ft > 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for, and duly elected members of the 

 Club : — Mr. Edmund Burkhart, Mr. Robert Spring Garden, Mr. Thomas Hyde 

 Richardson, and Mr. Francis L. Smith. 



Mr. M. C. Cooke read a paper " On Microscopic Moulds," which was illus- 

 trated by a large' number of coloured diagrams and by specimens exhibited 

 under the microscope at the close of the meeting. A quantity of specimens of 

 several kinds of Fungi were placed upon the table for distribution amongst 

 those members who felt interested in the subject. 



The President proposed a vote of thanks to Mr Cooke for his very interesting 

 paper, which was carried by acclamation. 



Mr. Edward Richards exhibited and described a newly-devised method of 

 using Darker' s Selenites, by which the different films were placed entirely under 

 the command of the observer— the construction of the apparatus was rendered 

 more intelligible by a large model in wood, and the practical application of the 

 various combinations was shown to the members at the close of the meeting. 



The President said that all the members who were present at the recent 

 Soiree must have a very grateful sense of obligation to those gentlemen who 

 exhibited objects on that occasion ; he, therefore, asked for a vote of thanks to 

 them for their efforts on that occasion. 



Dr. Braithwaite seconded the proposal, which was carried nem. dis. 



The President said that members would, no doubt, recollect that a fresh 

 arrangement with regard to the issue of the tickets for the Soiree had been 

 carried out this year. It had been found that on former occasions the crowding 

 was very great ; and to prevent this it was this year resolved that only one 

 complimentary ticket should be given to each member, but that any members 



