PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the meeting of the Club held on October 16th, 1903, Geo. 

 Massee, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair, the minutes of the 

 meeting held on June 19th were read and confirmed, and the 

 additions to the Library and Cabinet announced. 



Professor Alexander S. Skorikow was balloted for and duly- 

 elected. 



The death of Mr. Washington Teasdale, F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., 

 etc., at the age of seventy-three, was announced by Mr. Freeman, 

 who furnished an obituary notice. Mr. Teasdale was a member 

 of twenty-five years' standing, but, residing at Leeds, he was not 

 of late years a frequent visitor to the Club meetings. In addition 

 to his microscopical studies, he was a devotee to the camera, 

 having taken up photography when that art was in its infancy. 

 He had spent several years in India, and could relate many 

 interesting experiences of Oriental life and customs. To those 

 who were privileged to know him in private life he was a kind 

 and sympathetic friend, ever willing to place his great knowledge 

 at the disposal of the inexperienced. While attending a meeting 

 of the British Association at Southport he had a severe stroke of 

 paralysis, and on September 19th— a week later — a second attack 

 brought to a close his eventful life. 



Mr. Freeman also exhibited some exceedingly delicate and 

 skilful microscopic rulings, the work of the late Mr. Teasdale. 



Mr. Scourfield, on behalf of Mr. W. J. Wood, read a note on 

 a method of ebonising wood for laboratory tables. 



Mr. Frank P. Smith gave an address upon " The Spiders of 

 the Sub-family Erigoninae," illustrated with blackboard sketches 

 and specimens under microscopes. 



The President said that the way in which the subject had been 



