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EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



July 24th, 1885. 



Your Committee have the satisfaction to present a favourable 

 Report on this, the twentieth anniversary of the Club. 



The quality of its communications, the interest of the meetings, 

 and the efficiency and utility of the Club generally, have been fully 

 maintained during the past year. 



The total number of members is quite up to the average; 36 have 

 been elected, 16 have resigned. Our losses by death are : Mr. W. 

 Ladd, F.R.M.S., Rev. W. Read, M.A., Mr. 0. S. Bishop, Mr. T. 

 Spencer, and Dr. G. D. Brown. 



The following is a list of the papers read at the meetings, and 

 printed in the Journal : — 



" On a Hydrostatic Fine-adjustment," by Mr. E. M. Nelson. 



" On the Relations and Evolution of the various types of the 

 Genus Orbitolites," by the President. 



lt On the suppposed Sexual Threads in the Zygnemacea3," by 

 Mr. F. Bates. 



" On a Hydroid Polyp found in the tanks of the Royal Botanical 

 Society's Gardens," by Mr. F. A. Parsons. 



" On the Conjugation of Rhabdonema Arcuatum," Kiitz ; by Mr. 

 T. H. Buffham. 



" On some Remarkable Moulds," by Dr. M. C. Cooke. 



" On a New Flagellate Infusorian," by Rev. G. J. Burch. 



" On the Economy of the Hive-Bee," by Mr. F. Cheshire. 



" On a new Measuring Gauge," by Mr. R. T. Lewis. 



il On some Fossil Marine Diatoms," by Prof. Cleve (Upsala.) 



Short descriptions of new instruments, appliances, and methods 

 of procedure, will be found in the Proceedings. 



Besides these, five demonstrations on microscopical subjects, or 

 in which the microscope is a necessary means of research, were 

 given in the class-room during the winter months. Although the 



