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November 19th, 1897. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 J. G. Waller, Esq., F.S.A., 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. Herbert H. Smith, Mr. D. St. A. P. 

 Western, R.N., Mr. Ralph Heap, M.A., Mr. Arthur Howard, 

 and Dr. George M. Pittock. 



The following additions to the Library were announced : — 



" Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society " In exchange. 

 "Proceedings of the Literary and Philo-) 



sophical Society of Liverpool " ... ...i 



"Proceedings of the Croydon Nat. History) 



Society " ... ... ... . . . j 



" La Nuova Notarisia " ... ... ... „ „ 



" Annals of Natural History " ... ... Purchased. 



" Botanical Gazette " ... ... ... From the Editor. 



" The Microscope " ... ... ... ... ,, ,, ,, 



"The American Monthly Microscopical | j -, 



Journal" ... ... ... ...j 



" Science Gossip " ... ... ... ... From the Editor. 



" Proceedings of the Hist, and Sci. Society of] o • f^ 



Manitoba" ) *^ 



" Proceedings of the Ealing Natural Science | 



and Microscopical Society " ... . . . i 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



Mr. Goodwin inquired if any one present had noticed a paragraph 

 in the jDaili/ Chronicle to the effect that some one had invented a 

 means of obtaining an amplification of 25,000 diameters; and 

 wanted to know if it was likely to be correct. 



Mr. Hughes said that in the English Mechanic for the current 

 week there were about three columns describing a similar 

 absurdity. Mr. Morland said it was not impossible to magnify 

 to that extent in a roundabout way : for instance, when a highly 



