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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the 515th Ordinary Meeting of the Club, held on March 28th, 

 1916, the Vice-President, D. J. Scourfield, F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., in 

 the chair, the minutes of the meeting held on February 22nd 

 were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Reginald H. S. Bevington, Henry Clarke Terry, Her- 

 bert H. Smith, Alfred Hardcastle, David Gillies, Reginald W. 

 Thomas, Georges Rasquin and John Tennant, M.A., were 

 balloted for and duly elected members of the Club. 



It was announced that the son of the late Mr. Dunstall had 

 very generously placed at the disposal of the Club his father's 

 collection of slides of Diatoms, Insects and Botanical specimens, 

 for the curator to select any objects not already in our Cabinet. 

 The collection contains many useful additions, and the best 

 thanks of the Club are due to Mr. Dunstall for the donation in 

 memory of his father, who was such an enthusiastic member of 

 our Club. 



The following additions were made to the Library : 



Ray Soc. : British Marine Annelids, vol. iii., part ii., plates, 

 W. C. Mcintosh ; Principles of Plant Teratology, vol. i., 

 W. C. Worsdell ; British Freshwater Rhizopoda and 

 Heliozoa, G. H. Wailes, vol. iii. Presented by Henry 

 Morland : Index to the Localities named in Plates 

 1-288 of Schmidt's Atlas der Diatomaceen-hande. 

 Presented by Alpheus Smith: Q. M. C. Register; Ele- 

 ments of Entomology, W. S. Dallas. 



Mr. W. Milne, M.A., B.Sc, F.R.S.E., gave a paper, " On the 

 Bdelloid Rotifera of South Africa," Part I. Mr. Milne said the 

 material for the paper had been gathered intermittently during 

 the last ten years. A few of the species described were aquatic, 

 but the large majority were moss-dwellers. The aquatic species 



