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Limnocodium Sowerbii ... 



Diatoms, Mastogloia angulata 



Limnocodium Sowerbii ... 



Fredericella 



JUedusa 



Diatoms, Epit hernia sp. ... 



Coscinodiscus sol. 



Mr. G. E. Mainland. 

 Mr. H. Morland. 

 Mr. C. Le Pelley. 



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Mr. C. Upton. 

 Mr. G. C. Wallich. 



Attendance — Members, 58 ; Visitors, 5. 



May 8th, 1885. — Conversational Meeting. 



The following objects were exhibited in the library : — 



Zoophyte, Phalansterium digitatum ... ... Mr. 



Legs of various Bees Mr. 



Sprouting Apple Pip Mr. 



Month of Balanus ... ... ... ... ... Mr. 



Palate of Trochus ... ... ... Mr. 



iEcidium and Ui'omyces on Ranunculus ficaria ... Mr, 



Diatoms, Navicula Trevelyana ... ... ... Mr. 



Diatoms, Navicula Lyra ... Mr. 



Corethra plumicornis... ... ... ... ... Mr. 



Diatoms, Porpeia ornata ... ... ... ... Mr. 



Spicules of Gorgonia, and Holothuria ... ... Mr. 



Spinnerets of Garden Spider ... ... ... Mr. 



Attendance — Members, 48 ; Visitors, 8. 



F. W. Andrew. 

 F. Enock. 

 H. Epps. 



F. Fitch. 



W. M. Holmes. 



G. E. Mainland. 

 H. Morland. 



E. M. Nelson. 

 E. T. G. Nevins. 

 G. Sturt. 

 W. Watson. 

 J. Willson. 



May 22nd, 1885. — Ordinary Meeting. 



Dr. John Matthews, F.R.M.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. Henry Buckland, Mr. John W. Clinch, Mr. P. W. Pocock, 

 Mr. W. Rhein, and Mr. Thomas Williams. 



The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



" Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society " ... From the Society. 



" Proceedings of the New York Microscopical Society " ,, 



" Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh" ,, 



" Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society " ... „ „ 



Six Slides of Parasites „ Mr. Freeman. 



The thanks of the Club were unanimously voted to the donors, especially 

 to Mr. Freeman for his valuable addition to the Cabinet. 



Mr. E. M. Nelson described some experiments which he had been making 

 with the binocular microscope. He had long thought that the binocular 

 did not give images so good as the monocular, and he had endeavoured to 

 find out how this came about, and to remedy it if possible. He obtained a 



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