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PEOCEEDINGS. 



THE SOIREE OF THE CLUB. 

 The Annual Conversazione of the Club was held, by the kind permission of 

 the Council of University College, in the Library and Museum of that Institu- 

 i^ion, on Friday evening, March 21st, and was as interesting in the character of 

 the objects exhibited as on any previous occasion. It was attended by about 

 1,000 visitors, amongst whom might be recognised many of eminence in Art, 

 Literature, and Science. 



By the kind assistance of a member of the Club, Mr. James Martin, of the 

 London Stereoscopic Company, the Soiree Committee were enabled to exhibit a 

 series of views by means of the Oxy-hydrogen Light, illustrating the African 

 Gold and Diamond Diggings, the Victoria Falls, and some of the places inti- 

 mately connected with the travels of Dr. Livingstone. 



Mr. Apps exhibited a series of beautiful electrical experiments, by means of 

 his Inductorium and some apparatus kindly lent for the occasion by Lord 

 Lindsay. 



Mr. How exhibited vsdth the Oxy-hydrogen Lamp some Micro-photographs of 

 Rotiferge, taken from life by Dr. Gayer, one, the image of a Volvox globator, being 

 magnified four feet in diameter. Two Marine Aquaria, filled with Actinige, 

 Sabellse, Serpulae, Madrepores, and Hippocampi, were kindly lent for the even- 

 ing by Mr. G. H. King. 



The leading opticians came forward on this occasion with their usual kindly 

 help, and contributed microscopes, graphoscopes and revolving stereoscopes, 

 while the walls were ornamented by a series of microscopical drawings, executed 

 by Mr. Rochfort Connor, and admired, as they always are, for their delicacy 

 and accurate fidelity. The members of the Club were reinforced by their friends 

 of the Croydon, South London, and Forest Hill Societies, in the exhibition of 

 the following objects of interest : — 



Lung of Boa Constrictor 

 Infant's Brain 



Jawbone and Tooth of Mouse 



Human Scalp, showing Follicles 



.(^cidium berberidis 



Fossil Bone of Dinornis 



Irish Elk 



Potato Starch (polarised) 



Proboscis of Death's Head Moth (India) 



Young Oysters 



Santonine 



Larvae of Dragon Fly 



Head of Nubian Mosquito 



Pond Life 



Diatoras in, situ ... 



Larvse, &c 



JouRN. Q. M. C. No. 20. 



exhib 



ted by Mr. F. W. Andrew. 



, Mr, F. W. Andrew, jun. 



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Mr. E. C. Baber. 

 , Mr. Bailey. 



Mr. C. W. Balls. 

 Mr. Thos. Bevington. 

 Mr. W. A. Bevington. 

 Mr. W. Bishop. 

 Mr, W. J. Brown. 

 Mr. G. J, Burch. 



