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November 24th, 1882. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, M.A., A L.S., &c, President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the pi'eceding meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Mr. Thomas Carr was balloted for and duly elected a member of the 

 Club. 



The following donations to the Club were announced: — 



" Proceedings of the Croydon Microscopical') ^ ,, „ . . 

 _, ., „ J ■ t From the Society. 



Society" ) J 



" Journal and Annual Report of theBraintree") 



and Booking Microscopical Society " J 



" Science Gossip " „ Publisher. 



Authors. 



Beprint of paper by Rev. L. J. Mills and Mr.*) 



Kitton " On Diatoms in Peruvian Guano "J 

 " Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical") Society 



Society" ) 



" The American Monthly Microscopical") j expnail a-e 



Journal" ... ... ... ... ) 



ft Coles' Studies in Microscopical Science," \ B g^scription. 



Nos. 25-28 f 



The Author. 

 Mr. Kitton. 

 Mr. Morris. 



" Annals of Natural History " Purchased. 



" Micrographic Dictionary." Part 15... 

 " Braithwaite's British Moss Flora" ... 

 24 Slides, Diatoms 



12 Slides, Sections of Stems of Ferns... 

 Six Slides, Statoblasts of Fresh Water Sponges Mr. Priest. 

 The thanks of the meeting were voted to the Donors. 

 The President announced that the Committee had been enabled to arrange 

 for a series of six illustrated demonstrations, to be given on Gossip Nights in 

 class-room No. 8, the list of which he read to the meeting. 



Mr. Hailes read a letter received from Mr. Kitton, explaining some notes 

 which accompanied the slides presented. 



Mr. Priest read a paper " On the Statoblasts of Fresh Water Sponges/' 

 which he illustrated by numerous diagrams and slides. 



Mr. J. G. Waller expressed the pleasure he felt at hearing the paper read, 

 and to which he had little to add. Respecting the variations in the 

 Spongilla Fluviatilis, he was very glad to find that there was a new classifi- 

 cation, for in Dr. Bowerbank's volume a new species was mentioned as 

 having been found in the river Exe ; but he could only say that if species 

 were to be named on this principle, at least six new species might be found 

 in the river Thames. 



Votes of thanks to Mr. Kitton and Mr. Priest were unanimously carried. 

 Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold said he had brought for exhibition some speci- 

 mens of Limnea Truncatula. 



