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named donation from Prof. Eupert Jones. He had the pleasure of know- 

 ing Prof. Quekett 20 years ago, and could testify to the correctness of the 

 likeness. Although too large for the album, this portrait would, no doubt, 

 be carefully kept and highly valued by the members of the Club. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 



Mr. Ingpen said it would be remembered that some time ago a donation 

 of £10 was received from Miss Morrell, who desired that it might be 

 expended in some way for the benefit of the Club. It had been decided by 

 the Committee that it would be most beneficial to purchase with this money 

 some additional apparatus for the microscopes belonging to the Club, and 

 they had therefore obtained from Mr. Crouch a lin. and i objective, a 

 polariscope, a pair of No. 2 eyepieces, a single No. 3 eyepiece, and a 

 Webster's condenser. The purchase of these would absorb the amount at 

 disposal, and he was quite sure that the members would agree with him as 

 to the usefulness of the investment. 



The President said they would also be pleased to hear that Mr. Crouch 

 had added to these articles a silver side reflector, which he presented on his 

 own account. 



The Pi'esident regretted to announce that since their last meeting they . 

 had sustained a serious loss in the death of Dr. Sharpey, who was not only 

 an old friend of the Club, but one to whom the Club owed the privilege of 

 meeting in that room, for it was he who first expressed to his colleagues 

 the design and utility of the new Society. It was therefore most fitting 

 that the Club should express its sense of their loss, and that the same 

 should be suitably conveyed to the Dean of the Faculty of University 

 College. He happened to know Dr. Sharpey some 30 years ago, before he 

 came to London, and knew that he was one of those who always was ready 

 to do all he could for the advancement of young students, and he lent in 

 this same way a helping hand to a young body of microscopists, such as they 

 then were. What he had done for many individuals epitomized what he 

 had done for the Club, and what he had done for the Club epitomized what 

 he had done for science at large. His name remained indelibly connected, 

 first with the Edinburgh College, and afterwards with University College, 

 to the time of his lamented decease. 



A vote of condolence was then put to the meeting, and carried 

 unanimously. 



A paper by Dr. Stolterfoth, " On a Simple Method of Cleaning Diatoms," 

 was read by Mr. Ingpen. 



Mr. T. C. White thought that though the method proposed might appear 

 a novel one, thei-e seemed to be a great deal of truth in it ; and all who had 

 tried knew what was the trouble of using acid. He read a short time ago a 

 paper by Prof. Stanley Jevons, " On a Method of Getting Rid of Dirt by 

 Means of Soap." He put some chalk into a trough of water, and when it 

 was quite dissolved he put a small particle of soap into it, and in a short 

 time afterwards the particles of chalk were seen in agitation, and the 

 lirownian motions were very rapid. 



Mr. Thos. Spencer said he should imagine that the action Avhich took 



