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May 28th, 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 halloted for and duly elected members of 

 the Club: — The Right Rev. Bishop of Peterborough and Mr. Wm. Hughes. 

 The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



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



" The Journal of the New York Microscopical") 



Society" ... ... ) 



"The American Monthly Microscopical^) 

 Journal"' ... ... ... ... j 



" Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical' 



Society" 



"Annals of Natural History " ... ... ... Purchased. 



" British Petrography " ,., „ 



Dr. Hudson's " Rotifera,'" Part 4 „ 



Sixslides From Mr. C. Collins. 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



The President thought that the subject present in the minds of most of the 

 members above all others would be that of the great loss they had sustained 

 since last they met. When he took his seat in that chair for the first time as 

 their President, he did not anticipate that it would fall to his lot to have to 

 refer to the deaths of no less than three of their past Presidents, as having 

 occurred during his short tenure of office, and to ask for votes of condolence 

 to be passed in connection with them. Dr. Carpenter and Dr. Cobbold had 

 passed away from them, and now, as they were aware, they had to deplore the 

 removal of Dr. Matthews, whose loss would go home to most of them more 

 deeply still. Dr. Matthews was so old a member of the Club, and so constant 

 an attendant at their meetings, at which his universal kindness and readiness 

 to assist every one who desired to draw upon his store of information, that 

 he ventured to think they would regard him with something more than the 

 feelings of an acquaintance, but rather with those of personal attachment 

 and regard. Those who came into contact with him felt that his kindness 

 was not due to mere urbanity of manner, but that it was the result of a 

 genuine desire to help others with whom he was brought into connection ; 

 and although it would not, perhaps, be quite correct to put him forward as an 

 example of a first-rate man of science, yet the store of knowledge which he 

 had to draw upon was by no means small. In his own profession he occupied 

 a good position, being very skilful in it, and thoroughly well informed in all 

 that related to it, and this knowledge he kept up to the very last, taking the 

 keenest interest in eveiy advance that was made. He was an excellent 

 chemist, a skilful and thoughtful mechanician, and many of his devices were 

 justly appreciated by those who became acquainted with them. The micro- 

 lnegascope and the machine for cutting hard sections could, perhaps, hardly 



