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The Secretary called special attention to a donation of slides 

 from Mr. Rousselet, which brought up the collection of mounted 

 Rotifers in the Cabinet of the Club to a total of 242 slides. He 

 also reminded the members that the Club possessed two albums 

 for the portraits of those who were good enough to contribute 

 them. These albums were upon the table, and formed a very 

 interesting collection, especially as reminiscences of many of the 

 early members, who had since been removed by death. 



The President said he was sure the members of the Club would 

 feel very greatly indebted to Mr. Rousselet for this further 

 donation of slides of Rotifers, for nothing could be more useful to 

 those who were interested in such organisms than to have a good 

 type collection available, to which they could have access when 

 they wanted to identify species which they found. He therefore 

 moved that their special thanks be given to Mr. Rousselet for this 

 valuable contribution to their Cabinet. 



The motion being put from the Chair, was carried by acclama- 

 tion. 



The President then gave an interesting account of the group of 

 fungi known as the Laboulbeniaceae — the subject being well 

 illustrated by coloured diagrams and by drawings on the board. 



Mr. J. G. Waller, who occupied the chair 'pro tern., moved a 

 vote of thanks to the President for the very able and interesting 

 description of a group of vegetable organisms belonging to a class 

 with which he was so well acquainted, the subject being one of 

 which he was so perfect a master. The thanks of the meeting 

 were then unanimously voted to the President for iiis communi- 

 cation. 



Mr. Karop said that this group had been known for a number 

 of years, but some forms had been found in Australia growing 

 upon caterpillars and attaining a length of several inches. He 

 should like to ask if these were the same, or did they belong to a 

 separate group ? 



Mr. Massee said that they belonged, broadly speaking, to the 

 same division of fungi, but they were really Cordiceps, which 

 were similar in structure but without any sexual reproduction 

 whatever. They were commonly parasitic on insects, and the 

 downy substance sometimes found on insects in the chrysalis 

 state was the conidial form of Cordiceps. The sexual mode of 

 reproduction was the distinctive feature of the Laboulbeniaceae. 



