xc. Proceedings, 



Gossip " for December, Proces verbal, Belgian Microscopical' 

 Society ; Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society ; Annual 

 Reports of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, the Holmes- 

 dale Natural History Club, and the Postal Microscopical Club, 

 from the Societies ; Evans on the Archasopteryx, and W. F. 

 Stanley on Fluids, presented by the authors ; twelve micros- 

 copical slides, presented by Mr. H. Low Sargeant. 



Mr. W. Reeve Cooper and Mr. H. S. Cowdell were appointed 

 to audit the accounts of the club. 



The President briefly explained a scheme which had 

 already been carefully considered by the committee, as to the 

 form of natural history collections by the club, and Mr. John 

 Flower moved the following resolutions, viz.:— (i) That it is 

 desirable that collections of objects of natural history be 

 form.ed by the club to illustrate and to facilitate the study of 

 the natural history and geology of the district, and that the 

 committee be requested to take such steps as they may con- 

 sider desirable to form such collections. (2.) That the com- 

 mittee be also authorised to undertake on behalf of the club 

 the custody of such local antiquities as may be entrusted to 

 them. (3.) That the committee be also authorised to offer 

 on behalf of the club, to the Directors of the Croydon Literary 

 and Scientific Institution, for the Museum which they are 

 about to form, the use of the collections of the club upon such 

 terms as the committee may approve. (4.) That the com- 

 mittee be also authorised to accept, on behalf of the club, the 

 invitation of the committee of the Institution, and the 

 committee of the School of Art, to join with them in pro- 

 moting the Bazaar to be held in or about June next ; the 

 proceeds of which are to be equally divided between the 

 institution, the school of art, and the club. (5.) That the 

 participation of the club in the Bazaar be contingent upon 

 the Directors of the Institution providing a room suitable for 

 a museum, and that the share of the club in the amount 

 realized by the Bazaar be applied to providing cases and other 

 necessary appliances for the collections to be formed by the 

 club. 



These resolutions were seconded by the Rev. E. M. 

 Geldart, put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. 



The President announced that Mr. W. F. Stanley would 

 read a paper at the next meeting " On some new observations 

 of Vortex Motions, and on the evidence of the possibility of 

 such motions being active in vital systems." 



With reference to the election of officers for 1882, which 

 would take place at the next meeting, the President asked 

 members to adopt a plan which had been proposed by the 

 committee, viz., that the officers of the club be nominated in 



