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injurious to human life, and also to some extent to vegetable 

 life. When 15,000 tons of sulphur, for instance, were sent 

 into the air at Manchester, it would be carried over a large 

 district of country according to the direction of the wind. 

 Then serious damage might be caused also by the imperfect 

 way coal was consumed. 



The following objects were exhibited : — Mr. W. L. Serjeant, 

 live Weevil Beetle, under the microscope ; Mr. H. M. Klaassen, 

 Liassic Fossils from Lyme Regis, with diagrams illustrative 

 of the great landslips there; Mr. H. E. Baldock, Liassic 

 Fossils from the East Coast of Yorkshire ; Mr. Berney, larvae 

 of Smerinthus ocellatus, and other lepidoptera ; Mr. Edward 

 Lovett, young of the garden Spider, preserved in fluid, under 

 the microscope; Portunus pusillus, from deep water in the 

 English Channel, off the coast of Sussex ; Ebalia Pennantii, 

 from 10 to 20 fathom water round the Channel Islands. 



Ordinary Meeting, igth October, 1881. 

 Philip Crowley, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. 



William Gibson, 20, Outram Road, was ballotted for and 

 ■duly elected a member of the club. 



The following donations were announced : — ^Journal of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society, part 5 ; article on Crustacea, from 

 " Zoologist," by E. Lovett; Report of the British Association 

 at York, Sir J. Lubbock's address at York, notes on the fall of 

 an Aerolite at Middlesboro, March 14th 1881, by Mr. T. 

 Gushing. 



It was announced that 12 members of the club had attended 

 •the soiree of the South Norwood Literary and Scientific Insti- 

 tution. 



The President stated that the committee had been con- 

 sidering a scheme for increased accommodation for the club, 

 and for the formation of a local museum, which he hoped 

 would soon assume a definite form. 



The discussion by the club of the regulations as to the 

 printing of papers was postponed. 



Mr. Nation read his paper on " Gums and Resins," of 

 which the following is a summary : — In his opening outline he 

 pointed out that gums and resins are vegetable products. The 

 functions of leaves are to act as the inhaling and exhaling 

 organs of plants, as lungs do in animals, and to contain the 

 various secretions of the tree or plant to which they belong. 

 They inhale from the atmosphere oxygen and other gases 

 requisite for the growth and nourishment of vegetable life, and 



