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Section of tooth of Hippopotamus 



Sponge, M ylinsia callocyathes ... 



How & Co.'s pocket microscope lamp, with a ) 



light metal shade ... ... ... ) 



Section of Granite from Skiddaw 

 Aulocodiscus angulatus, from the stomachs) 



of Japanese tinned oysters ... ... ) 



Mr. C. Le Pelley. 

 Mr. B. W. Priest. 



Mr. G. Smith. 

 Mr. G. Smith. 



Mr. G. Sturt. 



Attendance — Members, 74 ; Visitors, 6. 



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December 28th, 1883. Ordinary Meeting. 

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



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following gentlemen were balloted for, and duly elected members of 

 the Club :— Mr. John Oliver, Mr. P. J. Spetch, and Rev. Geo. Bailey. 

 The following additions to the library were announced : — 



<' Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society " From the Society. 

 " Proceedings of the Eastbourne Natural His-" 



tory Society " ... 

 " Annual Report of the Brighton and Sussex") 



Natural History Society " J 



" Annual Report of the Croydon Natural His-^ 



tory Society " ... ) 



"Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical) 



Society" ) 



" Science Gossip " 



rt Science Monthly " ... 



" The Analyst " (weekly) 



" The American Naturalist " 



" The American Monthly Microscopical Journal" 



" Annals of Natural History " ... 



Stein's " Infusoria " 



Gosse's " Year at the Shore" 



" Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation " 



Pouchet's " Origine de la Vie " 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



Mr. E. M. Nelson said that he had been asked by Mr. Curties to make a 

 short communication on his behalf. Mr. Curties had lately received a packet 

 of slides and a letter concerning them from Professor Smith, of Geneva, 

 U.S.A. The slides were twelve in number, ten of them being mounted in 

 one medium and two in another. What these media were the letter did not 

 explain, but whatever they might be, the results were most beautiful. The 

 ten seemed inclined to go bad, but the other two were mounted in something 

 having a refractive index of 2*4, and the result was past all expectation 

 beating everything yet seen. The objects on these slides were Amphipleura 



Journ. Q. M. C, Series II., No. 7. d d 



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Publisher. 

 Editor. 



In Exchange. 



Purchased. 



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