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PEOCEEDINGS. 



October 19th, 1900. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 George Massee, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the meeting of June 15th, 1900, were read and 

 confirmed. 



Mr. Arthur Colls, Mr. Norman Warne, and Mr. G. H. D. 

 Webb, were balloted for and duly elected members of the Club. 



The Secretary said the members would hear with regret that 

 they had lost several of their number by death since their last 

 meeting, amongst whom, perhaps, the best known was Mr. J. D. 

 Hardy, who had been a member since 1874. He was very seldom 

 absent from their meetings, and generally had something to say 

 upon most subjects which came before them. He had also devised 

 several little contrivances for use with the microscope. Mr. 

 Richard Smith was a w^ell-known microscopist and inventor, and 

 amongst other things invented the Hovis flour. His chief -work 

 was in connection with investigations on the germination of 

 wheat, upon which subject he some time since published a book ; 

 he had been a member of the Club since 1892. Another member, 

 whose death had been recently reported, was Mr. Edward George, 

 who joined the Club in 1867, and was a very frequent attendant 

 at its meetings ; and finally Mr. G. Pearce, of Bournemouth. 



The additions to the Library were announced, and the thanks 

 of the meeting voted to the donors. 



Messrs. Swift exhibited a roller mechanical stage fitted to their 

 portable microscope shown at a previous meeting, and also a new 

 low-power condenser for the same instrument, by means of which 

 dark ground illumination could be got through a fairly thick 

 zoophyte trough. 



Mr. Karop said these additions had made this very useful 

 microscope still more complete ; the low-power condenser would 

 he thought, be found specially valuable. 



The President said they were^indebted to Mr. S^^'ift for bring- 

 ing to their notice these new additions to his microscope ; the 



