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Ova of Miisca vomitoria, showing the ^ r^,j^^ President. 



Micropy]e, &c. ... ... / 



Viscera of Musca vomitoria, stained in") 



an alcoholic solution of Judson's bine dyej 

 Plates and ambulacra of Holotliuria in situ Dr. H. T. Whitfcell. 

 he&i oi Drosera rotundifolia ... ... Mr. F. Wood. 



Attendance — Members, 



Visitors, 



November 26th, 1880. — Ordinary Meeting. 



T. Charters White, Esq., M.R.C.S., &c.. President, in tlie 



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. Eobert Hopkins, Mr. Charles T. Kingsett, F.G S , Mr. 

 Richard Larkins, jun , and Mr. J. H. Wright, Jun. 



The following additions to the library and cabinet were announced : — 

 " Memoirs and Proceedings of the Literary^ 

 and Philosophical Society of Man- > from the Society. 

 Chester'' ... ... ... -^ 



and Sussex") 



j " 



,, the Publisher, 

 in Exchange. 

 ,, )) 



from the Club. 



by Purchase. 



from Mr. T. Simpson. 

 „ Mr. Alpheus Smith. 



" Report of the Brighton 

 Natural History Society " 

 " Science Gossip " 

 " The American Naturalist " 

 '• The American Journal of Microscopy" ... 

 " Report of the Epping Forest Field Club " 

 " The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical ) 

 Science "... ... ... ' 



" Annals of Natural History*' ... 

 No. I of "The Scientific Roll" ... 

 Manuscript Index to the 4 Volumes of) 

 *' Phycologica Britannica" ... ) 



Tlie thanks of the meeting were voted to the Donors, and upon the motion 

 of the President a special vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Smith for the 

 valuable index which he had prepared and presented, greatly enhancing 

 the value of the work, which was neither paged nor indexed. 



K.r. J. D. Hardy exhibited and described a new live trough or Vivarium, 

 and explained its special use and the method of filling it. 



The President thought the trough was simplicity itself, but doubted 

 whether glass thin enough for use with high powers would bo sufficiently 

 strong to bear the pressure required to keep the cell water-tight. 



Mr. Hardy did not know if this would be so as at present arranged, but 

 thought some plan might easily bo devised if his present method of holding 

 the glass proved inefiicient. He had tried tallow, and found it to answer 

 very well ; but did not like it on account of the greasincss. 



Mr Ingpcu suggested that if two semicircular clips were used so as to bo 



