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He thanked the members of the Club for the way in which they 

 had received his description of the group, and hoped that some of 

 them would be able to discover these forms in England. He did 

 not think there should be the slightest difficulty in doing this, 

 and should quite expect that any one who set himself to this 

 work would find some on water-boatmen or other aquatic insects 

 in the course of an hour. 



Mr, Karop read an article on the " Wonders of the Microscope," 

 extracted from Answers, the absurdity of the many inaccuracies 

 in which caused considerable amusement. 



Announcements of meetings and excursions for the ensuing 

 month were then made, and the proceedings closed with the usual 



conversazione. 



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June 21st, 1901. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 J. G. Waller, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the meeting of May 17th, 1901, were read and 

 confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 members of the Club : — Mr. George Buttifant, Mr. Ernest Cecil 

 Goulton, Mr. E. A. Rickomartz, Mr. H. R. Robertson, Mr. E. H. 

 Tyrrell, Mr. Bernard Smith. 



The list of donations to the Club since the last meeting was 

 read, and the thanks of the members were voted to the donors ; 

 attention being specially called to a bound collection of his various 

 papers on microscopical subjects presented to the Library by 

 Mr. E. M. Nelson. 



Mr. R. T. Lewis read a further note with reference to Ixodes 

 reduvius, as a sequel to his paper read at the meeting of the Club 

 in June 1900, and printed in the Journal for November last. A 

 slide of the spermatozoa, mounted by Mr. Wheler, was exhibited 

 in illustration. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Lewis for his 

 communication. 



Mr. T. J. Davis exhibited and described a useful form of clip 

 for holding cover-glasses in bacteriological work. 



