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and acted as guide to the party. After exploring the woods 
and plantations for nearly two hours, Addington was reached, 
and the visitors inspected the Church and burial ground, 
afterwards returning through the park to the Ballards, where 
Mr. Goschen very kindly provided tea and substantial refresh- 
ments. From the keeper’s lodge, which is one of the highest 
points on the range of hills, in clear weather the most beautiful 
panoramic views may be obtained, portions of Kent, Essex, 
Middlesex, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Buckinghamshire, in 
addition to the greater part of the County of Surrey, being 
visible. On this occasion the atmosphere was somewhat 
cloudy, and the more distant prospect was obscured. After 
enjoying the rest here, the party returned to Croydon, which 
was reached about 8.30 p.m. 
Ordinary Meeting, 18th September, 1878. 
ALFRED CARPENTER, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
Mr. John Drage was balloted for, and elected. 
The PresipDEntT called attention to a wasp's nest, taken at 
Wye, Kent, which had been presented to the Club by Mr. 
Stampa Lambert, and to a very fine oyster shell, and some 
lignite, which had been found in a sewer cutting in the Holmes- 
dale-road, about eight feet below the surface, and forwarded by 
Mr. Brooks. 
Mr. Epwin Roper read an interesting paper on ‘“ The 
Microscope and its uses ;” and, after sketching shortly the 
history and gradual development of the microscope, called 
attention to the effect which its use had produced in the study 
of the lower forms of animal life, and of Cryptogamic plants. 
He further described many of the discoveries which had been 
made, by the aid of the microscope, as to the nature and 
origin of some forms of disease, and in the natural history of 
many animal and vegetable parasites, and spoke at length of its 
valuable assistance in investigating the phenomena of vegetable 
nutrition, the nature of the process by which the ovule was 
fecundated by the pollen tube, and the metamorphoses of the 
lower animals. Mr. Roper concluded by giving some interesting 
instances of the practical value of the microscope in medical 
cases. 
The paper was followed by a discussion, in which the Pre- 
sident, Mr. J. Berney, and Mr. E. Roper took part. 
Mr. E. Gill showed hairs of myosotis, spiral and hooked; 
Mr. Long, hair worms; Mr. K. McKean, living phylloxera 
