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PROCEEDINGS. 



April 25th, 1884. — 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. Jno. Higgins and Mr. J. W. P. Laurence. 

 The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



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

 "Proceedings of the Geologists' Association" ,, „ 



" Journal of the Postal Microscopical Society" ,, „ 



" Proceedings of Belgian Microscopical^) 



Society" ) 



" Science Gossip " ... ... ... ... ,, Publisher. 



" The Analyst " „ Editor. 



" Science Monthly " ... ... ... ... ,, „ 



"The American Naturalist " ... ... ... In exchange. 



" The American Monthly Microscopical^) 



Journal" ) " 



Dr. Cooke's " Fresh Water Algae," Part 8 ... Purchased. 

 " Annals of Natural History " ... ... „ 



Coles' " Studies in Microscopical Science" ... „ 



"Challenger Reports," Vol. 8 ... ... ... „ 



" Album of Woods," by Wilmusdafer .. ... „ 



"The Flora of Middlesex" From Mr. Crisp. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 

 The President, on behalf of the Excursion Committee, wished to remind 

 the members that the excursion season had commenced, and that two ex- 

 cursions had already taken place. It was intended this season to introduce 

 a new feature by giving out papers to the members to be filled up and re- 

 turned to the Secretary, indicating the various objects found, and giving 

 figures of such as it had not been possible to identify. The papers filled 

 up at the first excursion were so satisfactory that it had been thought 

 desirable to lay them upon the table that evening, so that others who pur- 

 posed attending future excursions might see how it was done, and that 

 others might be able to judge of the practical utility of the plan. He 

 thought that the collection thus formed would be a most interesting record 

 of the out-door work of the Club. And he would just call attention to the 

 sketches which accompanied many of the papers as evidencing that there 

 was drawing power as well as singing power in the Club. 



