ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
1876. 
February 7th, 1876. — ConversationaL Merrtinc, Four members 
present, 
February 16th, 1876.—Paper read by Mr. Cuartzs Jecxs, “ On Dar- 
WINISM,”’ 
The President, Mr. Henry Lee, in the chair, The minutes of 
the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. George William Berridge, 3, Outram Villas, Outram Road, 
was nominated for membership. 
The Present announced that Mr. Philip Crowley had con- 
veyed to the Committee, and requested him to convey to the Club, 
the kind appreciation of Mrs. Crowley of the vote that was 
proposed on the last occasion. They knew how very sincere that 
vote was, and Mrs. Crowley had kindly recognised it. He had also 
to mention that Mr. Taylor, who had often read papers before them, 
had brought for distribution amongst the Club some sea grass from 
Algeria, used commercially here for stuffing beds, in which, un- 
fortunately for the sleepers, an acaris something like the itch insect 
was found. It was peculiar that an acaris should be found in 
marine grass, unless engendered by its heating. If the members 
would like to take a portion of the grass home to examine it they 
were welcome to do so. He then stated that their friend Mr. Jecks, 
who had given them a lecture on a previous occasion, had come up 
from Northampton to give them another, and that this time it would 
be upon ‘‘Darwinism.’’ He thought it was right that the Club 
should launch out from the narrow groove of microscopy, as they 
had always intended, into the wide domain of Natural History. 
He was quite sure that the committee and the members were too 
liberal not to permit one of the great questions of the day to be 
freely discussed after it had been introduced to them with the 
acumen and learning which distinguished their friend Mr. Jecks. 
