xl. Proceedings. 
and in addition to these papers numerous objects of Natural History 
have been exhibited and described at the various meetings. 
An excursion was made on the 17th May to Caterham and God- 
stone, to meet the members of the Quekett and South London Clubs, 
and the members of the Club were invited to join the Holmesdale 
Natural History Society in a botanical ramble on the Addington 
Hills on 20th September. 
A very interesting visit was also made to Mr. F. J. Horniman’s 
Museum at Forest Hill on the 24th May, and the thanks of the 
members are due to that gentleman for his courtesy and hospitality 
on the occasion. 
The tenth annual soiree took place at the Public Hall on Wed- 
nesday, 26th November, and was attended by Fellows of the Royal 
Microscopical Society, and members of the Quekett, South London, 
New Cross, Sydenham, Greenwich, Hackney, Tower Hill, The Old 
Change Clubs, and others, by whom and by members of the Club, 
175 microscopes were exhibited, besides many other very interesting 
objects in Natural History, &c. The number of persons attending 
the soiree was as follows :—135 members, 109 exhibitors, non-mem- 
bers, and 571 visitors. Total, 815, as against 795 in 1878. 
Members of the Club have also attended the Soirees of the Green- 
wich, New Cross, South London, Quekett, and Tower Hill Clubs, and 
have also given exhibitions of microscopical objects at the Church of 
England Young Men’s Society Rooms, North End, and at the Christ 
Church School Rooms, Broad Green. 
The journals and reports of the Royal Microscopical Society, the 
New Cross, Watford, Quekett, Hackney, South London, East Kent, 
Berwickshire and Belgian Clubs and Societies, have been received, 
and a great honour has been conferred upon the Club by the Royal 
Microscopical Society in constituting our President for the time 
being an ex-officio Fellow of that society. 
The donations to the Club were as follows :—Two slides Phylloxera 
devastatrix, by Mr. K. McKean; two slides belemnite from York- 
shire, by Mr. E. Gill; three photographs of horse chestnut tree, by 
the President ; a large quantity of butterfly wings for mounting, by 
Mr. F. J. Horniman; six slides of wings of tropical Lepidoptera, by 
Mr. E. Lovett; a list of succulent plants, by Mr. J. J. Peacock; six 
slides wood sections, by Mr. W. J. Nation; Dr. Beale’s work on the 
Microscope, fifth edition, by the author; ‘‘ Notes on the Flora of 
Surrey,” by Arthur Bennett, by the author. 
Sub-committees on Meteorology, Geology, and Zoology, have been 
appointed in accordance with the recommendation of the committee 
in their last report, and are at work on their respective subjects. 
The attendance at the ordinary meetings has been up to the usual 
average, but the conversational meetings have been so badly attended 
that the committee recommend that they should be discontinued. 
The balance to the credit of the Club’s account has been increased 
during the year, but the report and transactions for 1878 have not yet 
been put in the printer’s hands. 
The thanks of the Club are again due to the Local Press for the full 
reports of the various meetings which have appeared in the columns 
of the Croydon Advertiser, Croydon Chronicle, and Creydon Guardian. 
Signed on behalf of the Committee, 
Croydon, 21st January, 1880. Joun FLower, President. 
