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TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Once more your Committee is in the position to place before 

 you a satisfactory account of tlie Club's affairs. 



Its general efficiency is well maintained, and, in some respects 

 at least, it has shown an advance on previous years. 



Up to the end of the past year fifty- two new members were 

 elected, a total slightly larger than in the preceding one, which 

 was the highest for more than a decade. On the other hand 

 the number of resignations and withdrawals is somewhat in- 

 creased. Death has also removed ten from oui^ list, amongst 

 whom particularly we have to deplore Mr. W. W. Reeves, and 

 our esteemed Editor and Foreign Secretary, Mr. H. F. Hailes. 

 Both were original members, and both had taken an active part 

 in the Club from its foundation. A memoir of Mr. Reeves, 

 from the pen of Mr. Ward, was given in the Journal for July, 

 and one of Mr. Hailes, by his old friend and our Curator, Mr. 

 Emery, will appear in the forthcoming number. Up to 

 December 31st last the total number on the "books was 368. 



The meetings have been extremely well attended, and a 

 manifest interest taken in the proceedings. The list of papers 

 given below shows no falling off in quantity, while the quality 

 of many was of great excellence. 



January. — " On the Macrotrachelous Callidinse," by Mr. D. 

 Bryce. " Note on a species of Ixodes found on a S. 

 African lizard," by Mr. R. T. Lewis. 

 February. — " On a new marine Chantransia," by Mr. T. H. 

 Buffham. " On the conjugation of a diatom, Orthoneis 

 hinotafa, Grrun.," Idem. " On a simple method of finding 

 the refractive index of mounting media," by Mr. E. M. 

 Nelson. 

 May. — " On some new records of British Cladocera," by Mr. 

 D. J. Scourfield. "On Binoculars," by Mr. E. M. 

 Nelson. 

 June. — "On Monstera deliciosa" by Mr. H. W. King. 



