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Quekett Microscopical Club hold its meetings at 20, Hanover 

 Square, W., on the third Friday evening in every month, except 

 July, August, and September, at 8 o'clock precisely, or at such 

 other time or place as the Committee may appoint." 



Mr. J. J. Vezey moved " that the proposed alteration in the 

 bye-law be made." He said that the members would be able to 

 meet on the third Friday in September as usual, but that this 

 would in future be a gossip night instead of an ordinary meeting, 

 the reason for the proposal being that they had found by ex- 

 perience that the attendance at the September meeting was 

 usually very small. There was rarely a paper to be read, and 

 it was thought scarcely worth while to oblige the officers of the 

 Society, who might not then be in Town, to come up to a meeting 

 at which there was so little to be done. 



Mr. Rousselet having seconded the proposition, it was put to 

 the meeting by the President, and declared to be carried unani- 

 mously. 



The ordinary meeting having been resumed, 



Mr. Hill exhibited and described a new portable binocular 

 microscope by Messrs. Beck. The general construction of the 

 instrument was the same as the " National " by the same firm, 

 but the stage was made to remove entirely from the stand for 

 greater convenience in packing. The stand was a large-sized 

 one, suitable for pond work, and it was fitted with a centring 

 apparatus. 



Mr. E. M. Nelson thought the idea carried out in this micro- 

 scope was a very excellent one, and rather a novel one also. It 

 no doubt added greatly to convenience in packing away, and he 

 did not see why the stage should not come away and yet be 

 quite as steady when replaced as one which turned on its axis. 



Mr. A. Earland read a paper " On Collecting and Preparing 

 Foraminiferous Material," for which the thanks of the meeting 

 were unanimously voted. 



Mr. Rousselet read a paper "On the Male of Proales 

 Wernecki," drawings of the male and young female being shown 

 in illustration. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Rousselet was unanimously carried. 



Mr. E. M.Nelson exhibited a new objective, which, he thought, 

 marked an era in the history of the microscope. It was a i$" oil 

 immersion by Leitz, with a numerical aperture of 1'3, the price 



