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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 

 COMMITTEE. 



In presenting the twenty-eighth Annual Report your Com- 

 mittee regrets to announce that the universally prevailing de- 

 pression has not been without effect on the affairs of the Club. 

 In the first place there has been a considerable diminution in 

 the number of new members joining the Club, 29 as against 52 

 in the previous year. Twenty-four resignations and five deaths 

 have been notified, and twelve names have been removed from 

 the list whose present address cannot be found, and who are, 

 for the most part, in arrear with their subscriptions. This 

 reduction leaves the present number of ordinary members on 

 the books at 341 up to the end of the year 1893. 



In other respects the efficiency of the Club has been fully 

 maintained; the meetings have been well attended and the 

 matter submitted at them, although not large in quantity, quite 

 up to the usual standard. 



The following is a list of the more important papers : — 



January 20th. — "On Gallidina pusilla and C. cornigera," by 



Mr. D. Bryce. " On the preservation of Rotifers," by 



Mr. C. Rousselet. " On a sample of diatomaceous earth 



from Guatemala," by Dr. A. M. Edwards. 



February 17th. — The President's Address, by Dr. W. H. 



Dallinger, F.R.S. 



March 17th. — " On a new Rotifer discovered by Mr. Hood, of 



Dundee," by Mr. Western. " On a species of Tick," 



etc., etc., by Mr. R. T. Lewis. 



April 21st. — " OnMetopidia parvula^^ (sp. n.), by Mr. Bryce. 



May 19th.—" Recent work in Marine Algge," by Mr. T. H. 



Buffham. 

 June 16th. — " On some new Rotifers," by Mr. J. Hood. " On 

 the Antheridia, etc., of some Floridly," by Mr. T. H. 

 Buffham. 

 October 20th. — " On Gopeus pachyurus " (male), by Mr. Dixon- 

 Nuttall. 



