PROCEEDINGS 
Cropdon Microscopical and Aatural 
History Club. 
Ordinary Meeting, 20th Feb., 1878. 
ALFRED CARPENTER, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and con- 
firmed, the Rev. D. Long, Mr. E. Straker, Mr. C. W. Mather, 
Mr. J. H. Mitchiner, and Mr. J. W. Baillie, were elected 
members of the Club. 
The PRESIDENT announced the receipt, from Mr. E. Gill, of 
two slides of Oolite, for the cabinet of the Club. 
Mr. J. W. WAL Is read an interesting paper on ‘“ Man 
Nomadic,” which was followed by a discussion, more par- 
ticularly as to the origin of language, in which the President, 
Mr. R. A. James, and Mr. H. M. Klaassen took part. 
The following objects were exhibited :—Mr. J. S. Johnson, 
Cypris Tristiata, Fresh-water Crustacean; Mr. H. Long, 
specimen of Yeast; Mr. E. Lovett, section of Fossil Wood, 
shewing the introduction of iron pyrites into the structure, and 
South American Snake, shewing the manner of casting the 
skin; Mr. J. A. Richardson, Spindle-celled Sarcoma, Cat's 
Ovary; Mr. H. M. Klaassen, Bilder-Atlas of Ethnography, 
published in Leipzig. 
Ordinary Meeting, 20th March, 1878. 
ALFRED CARPENTER, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. C. Cooper, Mr. Benjamin Hanscomb, and Mr. Wm. 
Field were balloted for and elected members. 
The PRESIDENT announced that the Committee having fully 
considered the subject of the annual lecture, had decided to 
abandon it for this year, as the expense of the delivery and 
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