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Stem section of a Brazilian Liana ... Mr. G. Dunning. 



0scillaria,8v.? Mr. W. Goodwin. 



Peueroplis pertusus ••• Mr. A. Jenkins. 



Alcyonium palmatum Mr. G. Mainland . 



Navicula tumescens Mr. H. Morland. 



Corallistes BowerbanMa, Ceylon Mr. B. Priest. 



Euchlanis lyra, mounted Mr. C. Rousselet. 



Arrenurus buccinator ... ... ... Mr. C. D. Soar. 



November 16th, 1894.— Ordinary Meeting. 



E. M. Nelson, Esq., F.R.M.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 members of the Club :— Mr. Walter P. Shadbolt, Mr. Edwin 

 Wooderson, Mr. W. B. Stokes. 



The following additions to the library were announced : — 

 11 Nova Acta Car-Leopold Akademie Nat. Cur.," two vols. 

 " Proceedings of the Literary and-\ 



Philosophical Society of Man- V From the Society. 

 Chester" ... ... ... J 



" Annals of Natural History" ... Purchased. 

 "Photomicrography" Dr. VanHeurck. 



"Synopsis of the Naviculoid") 



_/. / „ -d . T \ Prof. Cleve. 



Diatoms, Part I ) 



The thanks of the Club were voted to the donors. 



Mr. Karop said the last on the list of additions to the 

 library deserved something more than a mere formal acknow- 

 ledgment. This was Prof. Cleve's Synopsis, the first instal- 

 ment of a very important work. He had taken one genus, the 

 Navicula?, which by the unnecessary and unscientific multipli- 

 cation of species had grown to most unwieldy proportions, and 

 endeavoured to reduce it to order. The literature was equally 

 colossal and scattered, and, therefore, a revision necessarily 

 involved very considerable labour and research, as well as 

 special knowledge of the subject, and those who worked at 

 diatoms would not be astonished to hear that it had occupied 

 Prof. Cleve i\\v besi pari of eight years. The present part 



