388 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



At the 528tli Ordinary Meeting of the Club, held on Novem- 

 ber 13th, 1917, the President, Dr. A. B. Rendle, M.A., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., in the chair, the minutes of the meeting held on 

 October 23rd were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Arthur R. Trist, Geo. H. Rodman, Gustasp Andaseer, 

 R. Guthrie Woodward, Stuart Lawson and Wilfrid J. Birch were 

 balloted for and duly elected members of the Club. Proposal 

 forms for two candidates were read for the first time. 



The President announced that Mr. Ingpen, Honorary Secretary 

 from 1873 to 1883, had very kindly presented his microscope to 

 the Club. It was exhibited on the table, and included a valuable 

 set of accessories ; in addition to the instrument itself — a mono- 

 cular, with very complete mechanical substage — there were three 

 condensers, a full set of five eye-pieces, an extra draw-tube, a 

 camera lucida, a polariscope, and an Abbe apertometer, w4th 

 some other apparatus. In a letter to the President accompanying 

 the gift Mr. Ingpen explained that the instrument was a testi- 

 monial given to him by the Quekett Club on his relinquishing the 

 secretaryship ; it had been constantly used, and was greatly 

 valued by him. Now, however, owing to advancing age and the 

 failure of his eyesight, he was unable to continue his work, and 

 thought that he could not do better than return it to the present 

 representatives of the donors for their use, with his best wishes 

 for the continued prosperity of the Club. It was unanimously 

 resolved that the thanks of the members should be expressed 

 to Mr. Ingpen for his gift, coupled with their sympathy with him 

 in his sad affliction. 



Dr. Rendle announced the death at an advanced age of 

 Dr. Robert Braithwaite, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. He joined the Club in 

 1865, was President in 1872-3, and had been an honorary member 

 since 1893. He was the author of a valuable series of papers on 

 the Sphagnaceae, and his British Moss Flora was well known. 

 He was President of the Royal Microscopical Society in 1891-2. 



Dr. J. Rudd Leeson, F.L.S.,* F.R.M.S., then gave an 

 address on " The Life- History of the Gnat (Culex)," which was 

 illustrated by micro-preparations exhibited under microscopes 

 on the table. The Culicidae were characterised by their hair- 

 whorled antennae, the proboscis, and scales on the wings. All 

 so-called mosquitoes belonged to this order. There were about 

 a dozen species known in Great Britain. The larvae were 



