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PROCEEDINGS. 



March 16th, 1900. — Ordinary Meeting. 



George Massee, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the Annual Meeting of February 16th, were 

 read and confirmed. 



The President said he should like to take the opportunity of 

 thanking the members for the honour they had done him by 

 electing him the President of the Club. He was quite aware of 

 the importance of the position, seeing that amongst others he was 

 called upon to follow w^ere such eminent botanists as Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke and Dr. Braithwaite. He was sorry not to have been 

 with them at their last meeting, but as most of them knew, he 

 was absent in consequence of conditions over which he had no 

 control. These conditions, however, were passing away, and he 

 hoped he should not in future be absent from any of the 

 meetings. 



The following additions to the Library were announced : — 

 Sir E. Fry's " The Mycetozoa," from Mr. Smith. 

 M'Intosh's " British Annelids," Pay Society, by subscription. 

 " The Botanical Gazette " in exchange. 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



The Secretary said he regretted to have to report the deaths 

 of two members of the Club which had occurred since their last 

 meeting — namely, of Messrs. J. W. Bailey and William Goodwin, 

 also Amos Topping, the well-known mounter. Brief obituary 

 notices of each of the deceased were then read to the meeting 

 (see p. 440). 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 members of the Club : — Mr. Frederick J. Cheshire, Mr. Peter 

 Lawson, P.P. M.S., and Mr. Thomas H. Underhill, M.B. 



Mr. H. Morland exhibited and described an ingeniously con- 

 trived cabinet for the storing of unmounted diatoms. 



The President presumed that there were still a number of 

 people who took an interest in diatoms, and who would be sure 

 to find this very useful contrivance of great service. 



