xiv. Proceedings. 
REPORT. 
The committee have again the pleasure of submitting to the 
members of the Club their annual report of its proceedings. 
During the year 25 members have been elected; 14 have 
resigned (chiefly on account of removal from Croydon or from 
inability to attend the meetings), and the committee regret to 
add that five members, viz.: Mr.]J. M. Eastty, J.P., Mr. C. W. 
Johnson, F.R.S., Dr. Henry Owens, Mr. C. H. Maltby, and 
Mr. William Harrison have died. The total number of mem- 
bers on the 31st December, 1878, was 241, one being an 
honorary member. 
The following papers have been read :-— 
Feb. 20th.—Mr. J. W. Wallis, ‘On Man Nomadic.” 
March 20th.—Mr. W. J. Nation, ‘‘ On Ivory.” 
April 17th.—Mr. George Corden, ‘‘ On the Meteorology of 
Croydon.” A full copy of this paper will be forwarded to each 
member of the Club in the course of the ensuing month. 
May 15th.—Mr. O. T. Hodges, ‘‘On the Natural History 
and Instinct of the Bee;”’ Mr. S. J. Baldwin, ‘‘On Bees and 
their Management.” 
Sept. 18th.—Mr. Edwin Roper, ‘‘ On the Microscope and its 
uses.” 
Oct. 16th.—The President (Dr. Alfred Carpenter) ‘‘ On the 
Microscopical Appearances and Natural History of Hard Water, 
and its softening by Clark’s process.”’ 
Nov. 20th.—Mr. J. W. Chisholm, ‘‘On a Geological Section 
in Park Hill Rise; ’’ Mr. John Flower, M.A., ‘‘ On a portion of 
the trunk of a Horse Chestnut Tree, in which was embedded 
an iron chain which had been placed round the tree.” 
Dec. 18th.—The report of the Botanical Sub-Committee and 
list of plants found by them in the neighbourhood of Croydon ; 
and notes by Mr. John Flower, M.A., on some of the rarer and 
more interesting plants comprised in the sub-committee’s list ; 
Mr. William Field, ‘‘ On a piece of Chalk.” 
The success which has attended the appointment of the 
Botanical Sub-Committee appears to justify the opinion that 
there is room for further development in this direction, viz., by 
the formation of sub-committees in other branches of science. 
Excursions were made on the 15th June to Redhill, Nutfield, 
and Bletchingley, in conjunction with the Quekett and South 
London Microscopical Clubs, on which occasion the Clubs 
were kindly and hospitably entertained by Sir George Macleay, 
K.C.M.G., at Pendell Court ; and on the 2oth July to Adding- 
ton Park, when the members of the Club were also kindly and 
hospitably entertained by Mr. Charles H. Goschen, of Ballards. 
