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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE ' 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the 510th Ordinary Meeting of the Club, held on October 26th, 

 1915, the President, Professor Arthur Dendy, D.Sc, F.R.S., in 

 the chair, the minutes of the meeting held on June 22nd were 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. Ernest Quarry Bilham was balloted for and duly elected 

 a member of the Club. 



The President announced that for the present it had been 

 decided by the Committee to commence the business of the 

 Meetings at 7.30 p.m. instead of 8 o'clock. The Committee 

 will meet at 7 o'clock p.m. 



The President paid tribute to the memory of the late Prof. 

 Edward Alfred Minchin, M.A., F.R.S., who was a former President 

 of the Club, and who died at Selsey on September 30th, 1915. 



He stated Prof. Minchin was the most conscientious investi- 

 gator he had ever met. In the study of Spongology, his most 

 striking contributions were on the histology and embryology of 

 the Calcarea, especially those dealing with the triradiate spicules, 

 or rather spicule-systems, as he proved them to be. His most 

 important memoirs on Sponges were produced while he occupied 

 the chair of Zoology at University College, London. Before 

 resigning this chair and accepting the newly-created chair of 

 Protozoology in the University of London, and making his 

 headquarters the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, at 

 Chelsea, he visited Uganda as a member of the Royal Society's 

 Commission on Sleeping Sickness. His Introduction to the Study 

 of the Protozoa, published in 1912, will long remain the standard 

 treatise on this important subject. Besides being President of 

 the Club, he was also Vice-President of the Zoological Society, 

 and latterly Zoological Secretary to the Linnean Society. 



A resolution of deep regret was passed by the members, who 



