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Fructification of Fern, Davallia canariensis ... Mr. J. A. D. Parker. 



Sponge, JEct yon sparsns... ... ... ... Mr. B. W. Priest. 



Spicules of fresh- water sponge, Spongilla pur-' 



Smith. 



;;;}m,..g. 



beckensis, in flint 



Attendance —Members, 46 ; Visitors, 5. 



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February 26th, 1886. — 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. X. J. Swanson, Mr R. T. Holt, Mr W. J. Butcher, and 

 Mr. R. White. 



The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



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



Dr. Hudson's " Rotifera," Part I Purchased. 



Wilson's " Bryologica Britannica " ,, 



Buckler's " Larvae of British Butterflies and \ 



Moths," Ray Society f " 



" American Monthly Microscopical Journal " In exchange. 



" The American Naturalist " ... 



" Proceedings of the Hertfordshire Natural" 



History Club" 



" Annual Report of the Sidcup Literary and ) ^ , „ . A 



Scientific Society" } F™m the Society. 



" Proceedings of the South London Entomo-") y excnanee 

 logical and Natural History Society " ) 



" Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society" „ „ 



" Proceedings of the New York Microscopi- 

 cal Society " 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



The President called special attention to the last volume issued by the 

 Ray Society " On the Larvae of British Butterflies and Moths," which 

 was considered to be by far the most reliable work on the subject ever 

 published. The illustrations gave the larvae not only in the adult stage, 

 but also in the early and intermediate stages, in which, it was well known, 

 they often differed very considerably in appearance from the full-grown 

 creature. The drawings had been made with very great care, from life, by 

 the late Mr. Buckler. 



Mr Karop said he had brought with him a slide for the Cabinet, and 

 should like to say a few words concerning it. The specimen was a fungus 

 which grows upon the common orange, and was, he believed, very injuri- 



