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XovEiiBEK 17tu, 1893. — Ordinakv Meetixg. 



A. D. Michael, Esq., P.R.M.S., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Messrs. E. E. Hill and G. J. Randell were balloted for and 

 duly elected members of the Club. 



The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



" Annals of Natural History" ... Purchased. 



" Proceedinp's of the Brio-hton and ") -r, xi ci • < 



^^ , I r-r. , r^ . , „ [• Froui thc Socicty. 

 bussex JNatural History bociety ) 



" La Nuova ISTotarisia " ... ... In Exchange. 



" Memoir on the Gastrotrichia," hj")^ ivt -d i a 



-^ S From Mr. Rousselet. 

 Carl Zelinka... 



" Proceedings of the Belgian Micro- ") 



. 1 e • ; M c Prom the Society, 



scopical feociety ... ... ) *' 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors, amongst 

 whom Mr. Rousselet was specially named. 



The Secretary announced that the President was unavoid- 

 ably absent from the meeting, being unfortunately laid up 

 with influenza. He also referred to the recent death of 

 Dr. Kiitzing, the distinguished algologist, of whom he read 

 a short memoir, of which the following is a summary : — 

 " I am sure many members will hear with regret the death of 

 the veteran algologist. Dr. Friedrich Traugott Kiitzing, which 

 is recorded in the current number of 'La Nuova Notarisia,' 

 although the date is not given.* There can hardly be a micro- 

 scopist to whom the name, at least, is not familiar, and although, 

 so far as I know, it is many years since he wrote anything, his 

 works on Algae, and particularly the Diatomaceae, if in some 

 respects necessarily superseded by advancing knowledge, are 

 still indispensable to the systematic student, and will bear en- 

 during testimony to his patient and devoted labours, at a time 

 when the pursuit of this branch of science was new and difficult, 

 and offered hardly any other reward than the esteem of his 

 fellow-workers in the same field. His earliest paper known to 

 me was on the genera Melosira and Fragilaria in ' Linnaea ' in 



* F. T. Kiitzing, born December, 1807, died at Nordhausen, September 

 9tb, 1893. See " Hedwigia," Heft 3, 1893, p. 329-333. 



