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" Quarterly Journal of Microscopical ) p ii. r1 

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" Annals and Magazine of Natural History " „ 



" Grevillea " ... ... ... ... ... „ 



Transactions and Proceedings of various Societies. 



The Cabinet lias received but few additions, a list of which is 

 below, from the members at large. A very representative and 

 select collection of Foraminifera made by the late Mr. Hailes, 

 who devoted considerable attention to the study of these forms, 

 has been most generously purchased by Mr. Nelson for presenta- 

 tion to the Club, to be kept as a memorial of our lamented 

 friend. The number of preparations is upwards of eleven 

 hundred, and included with them is an extensive assortment of 

 material, portions of which will be given to any member 

 working at the subject on written application to the Committee. 

 The sincere and hearty thanks of the Club are due to Mr. 

 Nelson for this gift, and the Committee hereby desire to place 

 on record their sense of obligation to him in the name of all the 

 members. The revision of the whole Cabinet by a small sub- 

 committee, as promised in the last Report, is in hand, but it is 

 necessarily a very slow process, and no date can be assigned for 

 its completion at present. 



List of Slides presented during the past year : — 



Mr. R. T.Lewis 1 



Dr. W. J. Gray 10 Selected Diatoms. 



The Excursions of the past season were fairly attended and 

 reasonably successful in result. At the Whitstable gathering 

 Mr. Seibert Saunders, as usual, lent his valuable services, but 

 the number was rather smaller than could be desired and the 

 weather far from pleasant. The ordinary localities near London 

 are now perhaps almost worked out, and the difficulty of finding 

 new and moderately accessible places, yielding the necessary 

 material, must tax the abilities of the Excursions Sub-Com- 

 mittee. Under the skilful direction of Mr. Parsons, however, a 

 series is arranged which should meet the requirements of both 

 micro-zoologists and botanists. 



Your Committee desire to thank the officers for their several 

 services to the Club. 



In reviewing the proceedings of the year your Committee is 



