KEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



Your Committee, in presenting the Sixteenth Annual 

 Report, need only to refer, under the usual heads, to the 

 record of the work done during the past year, to indicate the 

 position and progress of the Club. 



The courtesy shown to the Club by the Council of Uni- 

 versity College continues unabated; and the permission to 

 hold our meetings here has been most kindly renewed for 

 the ensuing year. 



The deaths of two members, Mr. W. H. Furlonge and 

 Mr. A. J. Shelley, have been recorded. The former gen- 

 tleman was well known among us in the earlier years of the 

 Club, when he brought several interesting communications 

 before the meetings. Twenty-four members have resigned, 

 six have been struck off for being several years in arrear of 

 subscription, forty-two new members have been elected ; 

 thus bringing our present number to 613. 



The following are the principal communications made to 

 the Club during the past year : — 



1880. 

 August. " On some Immature Forms of Diatomace£e," by Mr. G. C. 

 Karop. 

 " On a method of Dry Mounting for Opaque Objects," by Mr, 

 H. J. Roper, 



