to their wishes on several occasions, the Committee feel they 

 but express the sentiments felt by the Members generally. 



The Meetings of the Club still continue well attended, and 

 your Committee cannot be insensible to the appreciation of 

 the Gossip Night on the second Friday in each month, as 

 manifested in an increased and an increasing attendance ; 

 and they would especially call the attention of the younger 

 Members, and of those to whom Microscopy is a new pursuit, 

 to the inestimable advantages offered by this night, for in 

 addition to the exhibition of many interesting mounted 

 specimens, some of which are not to be obtained through the 

 ordinary channels, microscopic life is also well represented, 

 and such details afforded to beginners as may enable them to 

 procure such for themselves — while the wants of the rising 

 botanist or geologist will find those particular departments 

 of science not unrepresented on this occasion ; added to which 

 a vast amount of useful information, relative to microscopical 

 manipulation and the mounting and preservation of speci- 

 mens, is gathered from the social and kindly chat which 

 takes place at this Meeting. 



The subjects of the Papers read at the ordinary Meetings 

 during the past year partake of a varied character, and 

 evince much careful observation. 



The following Papers were read, the discussions on which 

 will be found reported in the published Proceedings : — 



Mr. M. C. Cooke ... On the disappearance of the 



Nuclei of certain Fern spores 

 after mounting. 



Mr. J. W. Waller . . . On Cliona, or the boring Sponge. 



Dr. Lattey On the Mounting of Marine 



Polyzoa. 



