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ceedings of the Physical Society," on the aperture question. It 

 would be a very valuable addition to the Library of the Club. 

 The thanks of the Club were unanimously voted to the donors, 

 Mr. Yezey said the members would, no doubt, be sorry to hear 

 of the death of the oldest member of the Club — in point of age — 

 Mr. Henry Perigal, whose death occurred on June 6th, in the 

 ninety -eighth year of his age. He joined the Club in the year 

 1881, and was well known some years ago in connection with 

 many of the Scientific Societies of London, and from the many 

 contributions he made to the scientific periodicals. He had not 

 done much lately in microscopy, his chief hobby being astronomy ; 

 but he always took a great interest in the proceedings of the 

 Club, and was pleased to hear of all that was going on. Mr. Vezey 

 said that during the past week he had received a letter from their 

 member, Mr. C. J. Pound, who was now connected with the 

 Stock Institute at Brisbane, in which he made reference to his 

 work in connection with the mischief caused by ticks amongst 

 cattle in the colony, which, amongst other things, were believed 

 to produce the disease known as red- water. He said he had sent 

 some specimens of the ticks referred to, but the packet had not 

 yet arrived. Mr. Pound's note was then read. 



The President said that a paper which Mr. Nelson had written 

 on " The Evolution of the Microscope," Part 2, would be taken 

 as read, and would appear in the Journal in extenso. 



Mr. Earland read a paper " On Orhiculina Aclunca F. et M." 

 The President believed that several of their members had 

 worked at the Foraminifera, and if present they would, he 

 hoped, favour them with some remarks. 



Mr. Karop was afraid that the President was under a mis- 

 conception as to there being a number of their members who had 

 worked at the Foraminifera, for he feared that at the present 

 time there were very few indeed who had done so. He believed 

 Mr. Priest had done a little in this direction, but he hardly 

 knew of any one else. Personally he felt very much indebted 

 to Mr. Eailand for bringing them this paper, for he had very 

 little beside to put upon the agenda. They had the promise of a 

 very extensive paper, but found that the cost of the illustrations 

 required put this entirely beyond their means. Mr. Earland's 

 paper dealt with a very interesting subject, and would be read 

 with interest by all. He did not know very much about it, but 



