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Reproductive organs male earwig ... ... Mr. F. Pitch. 



Section of leaf, Coffea arabica ... ... ... Mr. H. G. Glasspoole. 



Lepidopterous larva, s.p. ... ... ... Mr. W. Goodwin. 



Fossil polyzoa from the chalk ... ... ... Mr. W. M. Holmes. 



Isthmia enervis, and Arachnoidiscus, in situ ... Mr. G. E. Mainland. 



Hantzsckia marina ... .., ... ... Mr. H. Morland. 



Sponges, Echinoderms, &c. ... ... ... Mr. B. W. Priest. 



Do! erite from Tasmania... ... ... ... Mr. G. Smith. 



Synedra undulata ... ... ... ... Mr. C. Upton. 



Parasites from Dog Mr. J. Willson. 



Attendance— Members, 50; Visitors, 3. 



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October 23rd, 1885. — Ordinary Meeting. 



A. D. Michael, Esq., F.L.S., F.R.M.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. Charles Collins and Mr. Charles Clayton. 



The following additions to the Library were announced: — 

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



" Journal of the Royal Microscopical^) 



Society" ... ... ) 



Braithwaite's " British Moss Flora," Part IX... From the Author. 



The Secretary read a letter received from the Secretary of the Croydon 

 Microscopical Society, inviting the co-operation of members of the Club at 

 the 16th Annual Soiree of the Society to be held at the Public Hall, Croydon, 

 on November 18th. 



The President said he had brought to the meeting for exhibition a slide 

 which he thought might be of some interest from its comparative rarity, 

 being the larval form of Antedon rosaceus, known as Pentacrinus Europceus. 

 There appeared to be some difficulty in finding it, and he was 

 rather astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Penzance Natural 

 History Society, who was formerly a member of this Club, had not 

 been successful in doing so. Mr. Thompson, to whose researches they 

 were indebted for most of their knowledge on the subject, and also 

 Sir Wyville Thompson, stated that they had found it upon seaweed, 

 but he had not been successful himself in finding it there, except in 

 occasional instances, his mode of obtaining it being from the crab-pots 

 which were used by the fishermen off the coast of Cornwall. These pots 

 were tolerably large wicker frames, which, when intended for use in a wild 

 sea, were made larger and stronger than usual, so that those in use at the 

 place he had mentioned were about three feet in diameter, and were loaded 

 with about a hundredweight of granite. They were baited with fish, and 

 were then tied together in strings of from 8 to 15, according to the size of 

 the boat which was to carry them. They were then taken out for a mile or 



