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Section of stem of Modecca tamifolia, 



showing raphides and sphceraphides 



in pith 

 Podura scale shown by polarized light 



with l-25th inch objective (1200 



diam.) 

 Section of leaf of Viseuvi album ... 



,, „ Sarsaparilla 



Mr. H. Morland. 



Mr. E. M. Nelson. 



Mr. J. W. Reed. 



Attendance — Members, 72 ; Visitors, 7. 



February 25th, 1881. — Ordinary Meeting. 

 T. C. White, Esq., M.R.C.S., &c., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Mr. C. G. F. Essell, Mr. James Glaisher, Mr. William Haigh, Mr. Alfred 

 Leicester, Dr. John Millar, Mr. Clifford Probyn, Mr. Thos. Taylor, Mr. 

 Chas. Tyler, Mr. W. J. Vereker-Bindon, and Mr. J. D. Ward were balloted 

 for and duly elected members of the Club. 

 The following donations were announced : — 

 ** Proceedings of the Royal Society " 

 " Proceedings of the Linnean Society " 

 "Journal of the Royal Microscopican 

 Society" ... ... ... J 



" Proceedings of the Botanical Society of ~ 



Edinburgh"... 

 " Proceedings of the Geologists' Associa-1 

 tion" ... ... ... J 



" Science Gossip " 

 " Popular Science Review " 

 "The Analyst" 



" The Northern Microscopist " ... 

 " The American Naturalist " 

 " The American Monthly Microscopical"! 

 Journal" ... ... ... j 



" The Microscopist's Annual 

 " Annals of Natural History" 

 " A Letter in the Handwriting of Professor ") 

 Quekett" ... ... ... j" 



A vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the donors. 

 The President said it would be remembered that at their last meeting a 

 letter was read inviting their co-operation in opposing the proposed 

 encroachment on Epping Forest by the Great Eastern Railway Company, 

 who wanted to carry a line through it to High Beech. Since that meeting 

 he had been invited to join a deputation as their representative, and in that 

 capacity he, with a number of other gentlemen, waited upon the Board of 

 JouRN. Q. M. C, No. 47. y 



from the Society. 

 ,, the President. 



„ the Society. 



the Association. 



the Publisher. 



the Editor. 



in Exchange. 



Mr. Turnbull. 

 Purchased. 



Mr. Moginie. 



