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the actual balance in hand is onl}' £59 19s. id. as against 

 £89 i6s. 4d. at the commencement of the year, or about £33^ 

 less. We have this year spent, or rather invested I may say^ 

 £15 in the furniture of our Club room, and the former amount 

 is, you may perhaps remember, to some extent fictitious, as we 

 have for two years printed no proceedings so that the present 

 year has born the expense of three years' proceedings. Our 

 annual soiree has again been a success, and I think as 

 interesting as any of its predecessors. Of course there is not 

 now the same novelty that there was in the first one or two 

 held, when many of those who attended had perhaps never 

 seen an object under a microscope, but in nature there is 

 always something new, and in such a gathering as we had 

 there was something new and of interest for all, not only in 

 the microscopical world, but in other objects of interest. 

 Many of our friends from other clubs remark that ours is one 

 of the pleasantest soirees they attend. As well as being 

 helped at our own soiree by exhibitors from seferal other 

 Clubs, members of our own Club have assisted some of our 

 neighbouring Clubs. 



Mr. Maitland Gardner seconded the motion of the 

 President, and it was carried unanim,ously. 



It was moved by Mr. Flower, seconded by Mr. Henry 

 Turner, and carried by acclamation, " That Mr. Philip 

 Crowley be the President for the ensuing year."' 



It was moved by Mr. George Manners, seconded by 

 Dr. Carpenter, and carried unanimously, " That Mr. Flower 

 be Treasurer for the ensuing year." 



The President, having announced the resignation by 

 Mr. K. McKean of the office of Honorary Secretary of the 

 Club, moved " That Mr. Charles Price Turner be the Honorary 

 Secretary for the ensuing year," this was seconded by Mr. James 

 Chisholm, put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. 



It v/as announced by the President that two additional 

 nominations had been received for the new Committee, viz. : 

 Mr. William Topley, F.G.S., and Mr. K. McKean. Messrs. 

 H. S. Cowdell, W. Low Sargeant, and E. B. Sturge having 

 been appointed scrutineers, the meeting proceeded to vote by 

 ballot for the nine members to compose the new Committee. 

 Dr. Thomson suggested that in future the names of the 

 existing Committee be printed, on the ballot papers, in different 

 type to the new nominations. The scrutineers having com- 

 pleted the counting, Mr. H. S. Cowdell announced that the 

 following gentlemen had been duly elected to serve on the 

 Committee: — Dr. Carpenter, Mr. James Chisholm, Mr. Thomas 

 Cushing, Mr. J. S.Johnson, Mr. Edward Lovett, Mr. K. McKean, 

 Mr. H. T. Mennell, Mr. William Topley, and Mr, Henry Turner. 



