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" Bibliotheca Zoologica'' ... From the President. 



" Bibliotheca Entomologica," Vol. I. ... ... ,, „ 



"Annals of Natural History " ... Purchased. 



Vol. VIII. " Challenger Reports " „ 



Publications of the Linnaean Society, from Oct., 1 p roTn -vf 9rnfipld 

 1873 to May, 1883 I 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



The President announced that the Committee had that evening resolved 

 to repeat the experiment of last year, by arranging to have a series of six 

 demonstrations on the Gossip nights during the coming winter, commenc- 

 ing in December and ending in May. They would be held at the same place 

 and hour as on former occasions, and it was contemplated to include amongst 

 the subjects some of the more elementary matters which were likely to be 

 useful to the younger members of the Club. The subjects to be treated had 

 not yet been definitely decided upon, but it had been thought that it might 

 increase the interest of these occasions if members would indicate the line 

 of subject they would most desire to have, and he therefore invited mem- 

 bers to suggest such topics as they might have in their minds. The number 

 of demonstrations was limited to six, but in the event of the subjects sug- 

 gested exceeding that number, the Committee would select from the list 

 such as were deemed of most practical value, their desire being to ascertain 

 from the members themselves upon what branches of microscopy informa- 

 tion and instruction were specially wanted. 



Mr. W. D. Smith exhibited and described a new modification of a turn- 

 table. This turntable laid no olaim to originality, being nothing more than 

 an attempt to unite, in one piece of apparatus, the various points that 

 seemed to be most valuable in Kinne's instrument, and in that invented by 

 Mr. Dunning, and described at page 81, Vol. vi. of the Journal. It con- 

 sisted of a circular brass plate, on the under side of which was a lever, 

 having its fulcrum on the axle of the table. This lever moved two arms 

 which worked in slots cut in the plate, so that they always approached or 

 receded from the centre in an exactly equal degree. The arms carried on 

 the upper side of the plate two flat pieces of brass, two inches in length, 

 which grasped the slide, one of these being fixed at right angles to the slot, 

 and the other pivoted so as to be able to adjust itself to the slide, as in Mr. 

 Dunning's instrument. 



Mr. Ingpen said the members would be pleased to know that he had re- 

 ceived a further communication from Dr. Whittell, of Adelaide, in proof 

 that he did not forget his association with them. 



The President announced the forthcoming soirees of the Highbury Micro- 

 scopical Society, and of the South London Club, and invited the assistance 

 of members of the Q. M. C. on those occasions. 



Mr. G. C. Karop gave a short description, which will be found on another 

 page, of a microscope table he had had constructed, and found very con- 

 venient for the purposes it was intended for. 



Mr. T. C. White said he had no practical experience in table-turning, but 



