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Spicular Cells in stem of Araucaria inibricata Mr. J. W. Reed. 

 ^cidium Taraxaci ... ... ... Mr. H. J. Roper. 



Section of stem of Cherry ... ... Mr. J. WooUett. 



Attendance — Members, 56 : Visitors. 6. 



July 23rd, 1880. — Annual Meeting. 

 Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold, F.R.S., 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. E. Carr, Mr. Jas. Funston, Mr. H. V. Shaw, Mr. A. S. 

 Hardingham, and the Rev. William Reade. 



On the recommendation of the Committee, Mr. F. H. Wenham was unani- 

 mously elected an honorary member of the Club. 



The following donations to the Library and Cabinet were announced : — 



*' The Popular Science Review " 



" Science Gossip " 



" Part II. of the British Moss Flora " 



" McAlpin's Biological Atlas " ... 



" Huxley's Cray-fish '' ... 



" Kirby and Spence's Entomology" ') 



*' Curiosities of Entomology'' ... ) 



" Greene's Protozoa and Coelenterata " 



" Ninth Report of the South London ) 



Microscopical Club "... ... ) 



"Transactions of the Watford NaturaFi 



History Society '' ... ... j 



"The Analyst" 



*' Annals of Natural History " 



6 Slides of Sponges 



1 Slide 



from the Publisher. 



,, Dr. Braithwaite. 

 „ Mr. J. W. Groves. 

 „ Mr. J. C. Sigs worth. 



„ Dr. Matthews. 



„ Mr. Ingpen. 



„ the Club. 



,, the Society. 



,, the Pablisher. 

 Purchased, 

 from Mr. Priest. 



,, Mr. Morland. 



The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to the donors. 



Mr. Frank Crisp, in pursuance of notice given at the previous meeting, 

 moved an altex-ation in Rule 3, by removing the words " in alphabetical 

 order," and substituting for them " in order to be determined by lot, as 

 drawn by the President and Secretary." He explained that it had been 

 commonly observed, that when there were more persons nominated than 

 vacancies for election, those who stood at the top of the list were almost in- 

 variably elected, and those at the bottom struck out, merely because of the 

 position in the alphabet of the letter with which their names commenced; 

 so that whilst Mr. White had no chance at all, Mr. Black was sure to be 

 successful. The proposed alteration would determine the order of the 

 names upon the ballot papers in another and, he thought, a more satisfactory 

 way to the general body of the members. 



