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EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



July 27, 1883. 



Your Committee, in presenting the Eighteenth Annual Eeport, 

 are glad to notice a marked increase in the vitality of the Club 

 during the past year. 



The number of our members continues nearly the same as last 

 year, our losses by death having been six, viz. — Colonel Basevi, Mr. 

 W. A. Delferier, Mr. Robert Hudson, the Hon. Sackville F. H. 

 Lane-Fox, Mr. W. Rawles, and Mr. F. Wood. None of these 

 members took any very active part in the affairs of the Club, 

 though two of them were well known in connection with some other 

 Scientific Societies. Twelve members have resigned, nineteen have 

 been struck off for non-payment of their subscription for several 

 years, and thirty-three new members have been elected. Our mem- 

 bers are, therefore, slightly reduced, but with no serious loss to the 

 efficiency of the Club. 



The following is a list of the principal communications made at 

 our meetings : — 



1882. 

 Aug. 25. " On the estimation of the numbers of Foraminifera 



found in Chalk, '' by the President. 

 Sept. 22. " On a quick-acting Nose-Piece," by Mr. E. M. Nelson. 

 " On Professor Abbe's method of testing Microscopical 



Objectives," by Dr. C. Zeiss. 

 " On Dr. Heneage Gibbe's method of preparing Bacillus 

 tubercidosiis," by Mr. G. C. Karop. 

 Oct. 27. " On the fibro-vascular bundles in Ferns, and their value 

 in determining generic affinities," by Mr. T. W. 

 Morris. 

 Nov. 24. " On the Statoblasts of the Fresh Water Sponges," by 

 Mr. B. W. Priest. 

 " On Diatomacearum Dillwynii," by F. Kitton. 

 " Some Remarks on Mr. Hensoldt's paper on Fluid 

 Cavities in Meteorites," by Mr. A. de Souza 

 Guimaraens. 



