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illustrated that evening, and the latter for having been so good 

 as to make a very beautiful plate with which to illustrate the 

 paper when it appeared in the Journal. 



Notices of meetings for the ensuing month were then given, 

 and the proceedings terminated. 



April 15th, 1898. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 J. Tatham, M.A., M.D., F.R.M.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 members of the Club : Mr. George H. Baxter, Mr. Woodhouse 

 Braine, F.RC.S., Dr. J. W. Simpson, and Mr. John Hounsome. 



The following additions to the library were announced : — 

 " Journal of the Nova Scotia Insti- 1 j Exchange 



tute of Science " ... ... J 



" The Botanical Gazette" ... ... „ „ 



" La Nuova Notarisia " ... ... ,, „ 



"Catalogue General des Diatomees" By Subscription. 

 " On the Experimental Study of •\ 



Aperture as a Factor of Micro- I From Dr. A. C. Mercer. 



scopical Vision " ... ... J 



The thanks of the Club were voted to Dr. Mercer for his 

 donation. 



A paper by Mr. J. E. Lord, on two new species of Rotifers 

 from Bossendale, was read by Mr. Bryce, who further remarked, 

 with regard to the Callidina described in it, that after a long 

 search in some material sent to him by the author, he had been 

 able to find only two examples, neither of which was quite so 

 large as the dimensions stated. He had made a cursory examina- 

 tion of the smaller of the two, a rather young individual, which 

 he found to be fairly quiet under observation. So far as he could 

 then say, the species seemed closely to resemble one found by Dr. 

 Weber near Geneva, of which he had seen the original drawings, 

 and a description of which was about to appear. The specific 

 name proposed by Mr. Lord had already been employed in the 



