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September 12th, 1884. — Conversational Meeting. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



Callithamnion granulatum, in fruit ... ... Mr. F. W.Andrew. 



Cheyletus flabellifer Mr. H. E. Freeman. 



Larva, pupa, and imago of Chironomus') m A TT 



plumosus 

 Larva and pupa of Simulium ... 

 Daphnia Bosmina 

 Diatoms. Coscinodiscus excavatus 

 Lacinvlaria socialls 

 Fredericella sultana 



Double-stained sections ; Vanda root, &c. 

 Docidium truncatum 

 Polyzoa, Discojporella fimbriata 

 Shells of young Limnasus stagnalis 



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Mr. J. D. Hardy. 

 Mr. H. Morland. 

 Mr. E. T. G. Nevins. 



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 Mr. F. Oxley. 

 Mr. F. A. Parsons. 

 Mr. B. W. Priest. 

 Mr. A. W. Stokes. 



From Dr. Cooke. 

 In Exchange. 



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Attendance— Members, 41 ; Visitors, 4. 



September 26th, 1884. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, M.A., A.L.S., Vice-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. H. A. Crowhurst, and Mr. William Watson. 

 The following donations were announced : — 



"Diseases of Field and Garden Crops," by W.") 



G. Smith j 



" The American Monthly Microscopical Journal " 



" The American Naturalist " 



" Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopal ) 



Society" j 



" Science Monthly " 



" Desmids of the United States " 



" Cole's Studies in Natural History " 



"Annals of Natural History " 



A Series of 24 Stained Botanical Slides 



A Series of 12 Slides of Diatoms, in Illustra-) 



tion of Mr. Kitton's Paper of June 27th j 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 



The Chairman said he had very great pleasure in announcing that they 



were favoured that evening by the presence of one of their transatlantic 



brethren — Dr. J. H. Wythe, Professor at the Cooper Medical College of San 



Francisco and author of " The Microscopist " — to whom, in the name of the 



Club, he offered a most hearty welcome. Dr. Wythe had been giving much 



attention lately to a new subject, which he called " Microscopic Graphiology,'' 



and upon which he had kindly consented to make some remarks. 



Dr. Wythe, after briefly acknowledging the welcome accorded to him by 

 the President and members present, said that although he had been until 

 then personally a stranger to them, he was well acquainted with the 



Purchased. 



From Mr. Oxley. 

 „ Mr. Sturt. 



