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• June 15th, 1894. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 E. M. Nelson, F.R.M.S., President, in the Chair. 



The President said he could not resume his seat without thank- 

 ing the members for the very kind sympathy he had received from 

 all quarters, and he hoped that they would accept this expression 

 of his gratitude. 



Mr, Veysey, in the absence of the Hon. Secretary, read the 

 minutes of the previous meeting, which were duly confirmed. 



The Bon. Sir Ford North and Mr. W. J. Morton were balloted 

 for and elected Members of the Club. 



The following additions to the Library were announced : — • 

 " Le Diatomiste," " Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical 

 Society," " Annals of Natural History." 



Tiie President had much pleasure in communicating a little 

 incident. He met Professor Rupert Jones, an old friend of John 

 Quekett, who asked how the Quekett Club was getting on. He 

 replied the Club was in a flourishing condition. The Professor gave 

 him some slides for the Club cabinet. These were very old slides 

 of foraminifera, prepared in the early days of microscopy by W. 

 Kitchen Parker, between 1845 and 1850, which gave them 

 additional interest. He proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the 

 Professor for his contribution, which was carried with applause. 



Mr. Western, in reading a paper on a new species of llotifer, 

 Distyla spinifera, said he thought he ought to apologise for in- 

 truding himself again upon the Club so soon. His excuse was, he 

 had a new Rotifer which he was anxious to introduce to the Club 

 before their Continental friends got hold of it. He then gave a 

 description of the Rotifer, with sketches on the black-board. 



Mr. Scourfield read a paper on a daphnia, Ihjocryptns agilis 

 (Kurz). 



The President invited discussion on the papers. 



Mr. Hardy remarked that he thought one feature which might 

 be useful for purposes of identification was the different outlines of 

 the feeding arrangements. The funnel, if one might so term it, 

 or syphon, with which the daphnia took its food differed materially 

 in most of them. He wished to call Mr. Scourfield's attention to 

 the fact. 



Mr. Scourfield said he did not find this point of any value for 



