XxXil. Proceedings. 
TITLE AND OBJECTS OF THE CLUB. 
The Club shall be called ‘‘ The Croydon Microscopical and Natural 
History Club,” and shall have for its objects the mutual help of its 
members in the study of Microscopy and Natural History, the 
investigation of the Meteorology, Geology, Botany, and Zoology of 
the neighbourhood of Croydon and the County of Surrey, and the 
dissemination amongst its members of information on the subjects of 
Microscopy and Natural History. 
That two merely verbal alterations be made in the Rule as to the 
management of the Club. ; 
That in the Rule as to honorary members, the words “ provided 
they do not reside within the district,” ‘‘ and corresponding” be 
struck out. 
And that in Rule. as to ordinary meetings, the time limited for 
the reading of papers be increased to twenty minutes. 
And gave notice that at the meeting on April 16th he would 
move that the Rules of the Club be altered as recommended by 
the committee. 
The PresipEnT further announced that the recommendation 
in the committee’s last report, that the number of sub-com- 
mittees should be increased, had been acted upon, and that three 
more sub-committees, to be called the Meteorological, Geolo- 
gical, and Zoological sub-committees, had been constituted, 
and that the following gentlemen had consented to act as 
members of them :— 
Meteorological Sub-Committee.—Mr. E. Mawley, Mr. H. S. 
Eaton, Mr. G. Corden. 
Geological Sub-Conmittee.—Dr. Carpenter, Mr. H. Turner, 
Mr. J. Chisholm, Mr. H. M. Klaassen. 
Zoological Sub-Committee.—Mr. J. Berney, Mr. E. Lovett, 
Mr. A. D. Taylor, Mr. P. Crowley, Mr. K. McKean. 
Mr. H. T. Mennell had also joined the Botanical sub- 
committee. 
The President of the Club for the time being would be an 
ex-officio member of each of these sub-committees. 
These sub-committees could not, however, as yet, be con- 
sidered as complete, as it was hoped that other members who 
had made some of the various branches of Natural History 
their particular study would be willing to join them. 
The PresipentT further announced that letters had been 
received from the secretaries of the Geological Society of 
London and the Hackney Microscopical and Natural History 
Club, acknowledging with thanks copies of Mr. Corden’s 
paper on the ‘Meteorology of Croydon,” which had been 
forwarded to them. 
Dr. CARPENTER exhibited, and made some remarks upon 
two pieces of lead pipe, which had been used as water pipes, 
