Proceedings. . cxxv. 



Thirteenth Annual Meeting, loth January, 1883. 



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



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected 



•members :_MesL. Charles W. Hancock, Charles h. Howse 



SSstav Kiister, Hugh David Sandeman, and Thomas Josiah 



^The following resolution was moved by Mr. McKean 

 seconded by Mr. Waterall, and carried:— ihat vice- 

 presidents be elected, not exceeding four in """J^er, and 

 chosen from past presidents of the Society, and tiiat they 

 be c x-officio members of the Committee. 



The Report and Balance Sheet of the Committee for 1882 

 were then read by the Hon. Secretary :— 



REPORT. 



'•Your Committee have the pleasure of submitting to you their 



'''Drn'theT:st^;e'aT'-the Club has been augmented by a8 new 

 members whilst 16 have withdrawn, and your Committee regret to 

 have to announce that Mr. Joseph Page, Mr Fnth, Mr. John Moore, 

 Mr WilHam Reeves Cooper, and Mr. John F ower have died 



Mr Reeves Cooper was one of the on.^mal members of he Club, 

 and for several years held oPfi^e as a member of the Committee. 



Tn the death of Mr. John Flower the Club lost one of its most 

 va Je m^mSe s. He w4s for two years President of the Cub and 

 Ifthe ^me of his death he held the post of Treasurer. For a 

 considerable time before he died he had been very actively engaged 

 in workin- out the geology of the new railway cuttmg at Park HiU. 



The Club at present" consists of 263 ordinary members, four 

 honorary members, and one associate. 



The following papers have been read during the year ,— 



FcViTy ^Ith-^^- J«HN Flower, '■ Observations upon the 

 Geology of Croydon as illustrated by the Railway Cutting at Park 



^'uarch i5(/K-Mr. Edward Lovett, "The Embryabgy of the 

 Podoohthalma, or Stalk-eyed Crustacea.' ■ .• ■ 



April izth.-'^^r. Henry E. Dresser, " Spec.es and varieties m 



^'/ifav" loth -Mr. W. T. Suffolk, " Abbe's diffraction experiments, 



nnlheir bearing on Microscopical Vision." Mr. Henry Iurner, 



«^ Nous up' iTsome Vegetable R^emains found in the Railway Cutting 



^^lfu,SclKith.--Uv. Kenneth McKean, "The Mollusca of the 



^ OciSif 'iif/f.'-Mr. Henry Seeboiim. " Ornithological Research 



^" Nn; lt7m-mtZti> BiDWELL, " Notes on the Ornithology 

 f^^fp^rn^ islands " Mr. H. T. Mennell and Mr. Edward 

 LovETV Notefon the Geology, Fauna, and Flora of the Fame 

 Islands." 



