16 



Proceedings. 



Receipts. 



Oct. 1880. £ 



Balance in hand 12 



1881. 



Subscriptions 31 



Eeceipts from Lectures \ p 



Mr. N. E. Brown I " 



s. d. 

 6 1 



7 

 10 



£49 16 8 



Expenditure, 



£ s.d. 



Bent of Museum, Gas, and 



Firing 16 10 



Assistant Curator, 2 years 13 

 Attendance, cleaning, &c. 12 



Hire of Eoom 1 10 



Travelling Expenses .... 2 60 

 Zoologist, Printing, Post- 

 age, Collector's Commis- 

 sion, and Sundries .... 5 11 

 Balance in hand 10 6 8 



£49 16 8 



The following gentlemen were then elected as OflScers of 

 the Club for the ensuing year : — President, Mr. W. H. Tyndall; 

 Treasurer, Mr. E. C. Baxter; Secretary, Mr. J. B. Crosfield ; 

 Curator, Mr. J. Linnell, jun. ; Members of Committee, Dr. 

 Bossey, Dr. Holman, Mr. C. Marshall, Mr. T. Cooper, Mr. A. 

 Bennett, Mr. T. L. Aspland, Mr. A. J. Crosfield, Mr. A. C. 

 Sterry, and Mr. J. J. Gill. 



Mr. N. E. Brown presented to the Club 'A Review of the 

 Ferns of Northern India,' in three parts, by Charles Baron 

 Clarke, M.A., F.L.S. The thanks of the Club were voted to 

 him for this donation. 



Mr. N. E. Brown gave a short address on 'The Life- 

 History of Voivox glohator,' specimens of which he also 

 exhibited under the microscope. He stated that the Voivox 

 is a plant belonging to the fi-esh-water Algae ; under the 

 microscope it is seen to be covered with very minute dots ; 

 these are the gonidia, and when highly magnified are found 

 to be flask-shaped, terminating at the smaller end by a pair 

 of cilia, which project through the outer wall of the Voivox 

 into the water in which the plant lives, and are the means of 

 imparting to it its revolving action. Some persons have 

 asserted that this motion is round a regular axis, but Mr. 

 Brown stated that his own observations did not confirm this. 

 Two modes of reproduction occur : in the one case (the 

 asexual inode) two of the gonidia unite and form a sort of 

 disc, and the cilia springing fi-om them disappear ; they con- 

 tinue to grow, and finally the wall of the plant bursts and 



