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October 16th, 1896.— Ordinary Meeting. 

 J. G. Waller, Esq., F.S.A., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Mr. Henry Tavener was balloted for and duly elected a 

 member of the Club. 



The following donations were announced : — 



From the Editor. 



Five Slides of Rotifers 



" The International Journal of Micro-) 



scopy" J 



" The Microscope " „ „ 



"The American Monthly Micro-") -r , 



scopical Journal " ... ... J 



"Transactions of the Ealing Micro-) From the Socjet 



scopical Society" ... ... J 



" Proceedings of the Bristol Natural) 



History Society" J 



" Proceedings of the Royal Society"... „ „ 



"Proceedings of the Croydon Micro-) 



scopical Society " ... ... ) 



" Reprint of a Paper on Rotifers " ... From Mr. Hempel. 

 Forty-nine Slides of Rotifers „ Mr. Rousselet. 



!„ Surgeon V. 

 Gunson Thorpe. 



The attention of the members was specially called to this 

 further donation by Mr. Rousselet of examples of Rotifers to- 

 wards the completion of a type series, and the special thanks 

 of the meeting were voted to him for this very valuable addi- 

 tion to the cabinet of the Club. 



Mr. Karop described on the board a new device by Messrs. 

 Swift for obtaining coloured ground illumination, consisting of 

 a plano-convex lens placed below the object, the central portion 

 of the plane surface being of one colour and the periphery 

 another. He regretted that through oversight he had omitted 

 to bring to the meeting the lens which Messrs. Swift had sent 

 to him during the vacation. 



Mr. Swift said ho had a similar lens exhibiting in the room. 



Mr. Rousselet said he had with him a small device which 

 effected the same result, but in a different way. It consisted of 

 a series of coloured discs which could be used in combination, 



