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THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 



Your Committee is once more enabled to present a favourable 

 Report of the Club's concerns, at the end of another year. If 

 Httle that is extraordinary calls for record, neither has any 

 circumstance interfered with its wonted course. 



Twenty-seven members have been elected, and the same 

 number lost by resignation or death. Amongst the latter is 

 Mr. T. Curties, of Holborn, one of the Club's earliest and most 

 enthusiastic members, who for many years exerted himself 

 in every possible way to further its welfare and progress ; and, 

 although prevented latterly by failing health from attending our 

 meetings, was as interested as ever in our proceedings until 

 the last. The more social functions of the Club were the special 

 objects of his solicitude, and those among us who remember the 

 Soirees and the Annual and Excursion Dinners of times gone 

 by will never forget Mr. Curties's unflagging energy and great 

 organising abilities, to which their success was so largely due. 



The Meetings have been as well attended as usual, and the 

 matter submitted at them has maintained a high character. The 

 following is a list of the more important papers : — 



January . On a New Metopidia . . . Mr. Dunlop. 



„ . On the varieties of Brachionus 



Bakeri ..... Mr. Rousselet. 

 March . On the experimental infection of 

 the domestic Duck with Cysti- 

 cerci ..... Mr. Rosseter. 

 May , . On the Mycetozoa .... Mr. Slade. 

 ,, . . On the minute structure of certain 



Diatoms .... Mr. Nelson. 



June . . On collecting Foraminiferous 



material .... Mr. Earland. 



,, . . On the male of Proales Wernecki 



(preliminary) .... JNIi-. Rousselet. 



