'Proceedings. Xv. 
In the last report attention was drawn to the thin attendance 
at the conversational meetings, and the committee regret that 
they cannot announce any improvement. 
The Ninth Annual Soiree took place at the Public Hall, on 
Wednesday evening, 6th November, and was attended by 
fellows of the Royal Microscopical Society, and members of the 
Quekett, South London, Sydenham, Greenwich, New Cross, 
Tower Hill, Old Change, and Hackney Clubs, and others, by 
whom, and by members of the Club, 173 microscopes were exhi- 
bited, besides many interesting objects in natural history, 
antiquities, works of art, &c. The attendance was the largest 
on record, being 140 members, 106 exhibitors, and 549 visitors ; 
total, 795, as against 770 at the Soirée in 1877. 
The members of the Club gave an exhibition of microscopes 
at the Working Men’s Club, on October 14th. 
The reports and Journals of the Quekett, South London, 
Watford, Brighton and Sussex, Berwickshire, Sydenham and 
Forest Hill, New Cross, East Kent, Eastbourne, and Belgian 
Clubs and Societies have been received. 
The donations tothe Club during 1878 are as follows :—Mr. 
E. Gill, two slides, Oolite; Mr. R. B. Douglass, a spectroscope; 
Mr. George Corden, volume of weather charts for 11 years, 
1867 to 1877 ; Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S., &c., papers 
on recent Foraminifera of Down and Antrim, by Joseph Wright, 
F.G.S., and ‘“‘ Living and Fossil Foraminifera of Jamaica, by 
Professor T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S.; Professor W. K. Parker, 
F.R.S.; Professor H. B. Brady, F.R.S.; and Mr. S. W. 
Lambert, Wasps’ Nest from Wye, Kent. 
During the year the reports for 1876 and 1877 have been 
printed and duly issued to the members and corresponding 
Clubs and Societies. The Club series is now complete to 
date, with the exception of 1871, which it is hoped may be 
shortly completed. 
The attendance at the ordinary meetings has been good, 
and equal to the average of the previous year. 
The thanks of the Club are again due to the local press for 
the very full reports of the various meetings, which have 
appeared in the columns of the Croydon Advertiser, Croydon 
Chronicle, and Croydon Guardian. 
Signed on behalf of the Committee, 
ALFRED CARPENTER, President. 
Croydon, 15th January, 1879. 
