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■whether the variation resulted from the fact that the trough did not con- 

 tain suitable matter for building, but only some kind of flocculent matter 

 likely to swell, or whether it was a variety as to the building of the tube 

 It was a matter of frequent observation that, in spite of the extreme 

 regularity of the tube under ordinary circumstances, it did vary considerably 

 in confinement, because the creature was then obliged to use such material 

 as it could get. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the authors of the various com- 

 munications. 



Announcements of meetings, &c, for the ensuing month were then made, 

 and the meeting concluded with the usual Conversazione. 



The following objects were exhibited : — 



Melicertatyro ... ... ... ... ... Mr. F. W. Andrew. 



Nettle bug, Capsvs capillaris (pupa) ... ... Mr. F. Enock. 



Moth (Tinea), from Cacao bean ... ... Mr. H. Epps. 



Melicerta cephalosiphon ... Mr. E. K. Jaques. 



jf ivTLytsilo ••• •*. ■•■ •»# jy 



Crinoid larva of Antedon rosaceus (Penta-1 , r . t-. , r . , , 

 _ v } Mr. A. D. Michael. 



crinus kuropceus) ... ) 



Cocconeis, n.s Mr. E. M. Nelson. . 



Pisciola geometrina .. Mr. C. Rousselet. 



Section of carboniferous limestone containing") 



Foraminifera from Stafford ... ... j 



Crystallized silver Mr. W. Watson. 



Head of White Ant Mr. J. Willson. 



Attendance — Members, 46 ; Visitors, 5. 



November 13th, 1885.— Conversational Meeting. 



The President having called the attention of the members, said that since the 

 last meeting the Club had suffered a great loss in the death of Dr. Wm. B. 

 Carpenter — a death rendered more sad by the circumstances under which it 

 had occurred. No name was more intimately connected with the progress 

 of microscopical science in this country than that of Dr. Carpenter, whose 

 well-known work on the microscope had passed through so many editions, 

 and was still the leading English treatise upon the subject, and was probably 

 in the library of almost every man in the room. Dr. Carpenter's name was 

 not known in connection with microscopy only, but equally in the depart- 

 ments ot physiology, and comparative biology. Throughout his life he had 

 been a steady and industrious worker, and few men had left behind them 

 more substantial proofs of the wide and constant nature of their scientific 

 labours than he had. 



The Quekett Club would feel his loss all the more acutely on account of 

 the very late period at which he had been their President ; indeed, but for 

 his failing health he would have filled the chair up to the time of his death, 



Mr. G. Smith. 



