xxviij Proceedings. 



Dec. 9th. — Osborne G. W. Trenow, Helstone Lodge, Addiscombe. 

 William Cooke, 2, Gwydor Road, Elmers End. P. W. Perkins Case, 

 M.D., Oakfield Road. Charles M. EUborough, the Town Hall. 



Presentations to the Club, 1885. 



' Science Gossip ' ; from the Publishers. The Journal of the Royal 

 Microscopical Society. Address of the Treasurer of the Royal Society, 

 delivered at the Annual Meeting. Proceedings of the Holmesdale 

 Natural History Society. Parcel of stationery; presented by E. 

 Straker. Journal of the Postal Microscopical Society. Slide of 

 Sponge Spicules ; presented by G. Hind. Journal of the Quekett 

 Microscopical Society. Transactions of the Eastbourne Natural 

 History Club. Journal of the Northamptonshu*e Natural History 

 Society. Notes on British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, by Edward Lovett ; 

 presented by the Author. The Weather of 1884, by Edward Mawley, 

 F.R. Met. Soc. ; presented by the Author. Two objects boxes for 

 Coles' slides ; presented by W. P. Stanley. Transactions of the 

 Belgium Microscopical Society. Twenty- seventh Report of the East 

 Kent Natural History Society. Annual Report of the South London 

 Microscopical and Natural History Club. Report of the West Kent 

 Natm-al History and Microscopical Society. Natural History of the 

 Nests and Eggs of British Bhds (Rev. F. 0. Morris), 3 vols. ; British 

 Bhds' Eggs and Nests (Atkinson), 1 vol. ; List of British Birds, com- 

 piled by a Committee of the British Ornithological Society, 1 vol. ; 

 Birds of Middlesex (J. E. Hartmg, F.L.S.), 1 vol. ; Natural History of 

 British Pishes (Buckland) ; Charles Darwin, Nature series ; Natm-al 

 History of Selborne ; Life of a Scotch naturalist ; Zoologist for 1883 ; 

 — presented by F. Lee Berney. Sketch of the Geology of EaHng, and 

 notes on Flint; presented by G. J. Allen Brown. Burton's Modern 

 Photography ; presented by K. McKean.* 



Exhibits, 1885. 



Jan. nth. — J. F. Rymer, Trichina spiralis and Bacillus anthrax. 

 F. G. Pocock, collection of birds' eggs. W. Low Sarjeant, ova of toad 

 injected with chrome-yellow. 



Feb. IWi. — Dr. Carpenter, human bones and skulls from the inter- 

 ments discovered at Purley; also iron weapons, &c., found near 

 Beddington. H. T. Mennell, skulls, pottery, metal knives, glass beads, 

 rings, &c., from interments at Saffron Walden. K. McKean, early 

 form of lamp from Cyprus ; curious pearl from oyster. E. Lovett, 

 Sysmata seticaudata, a crustacean new to the British seas ; also pre- 

 historic flint arrow-heads from Yorkshire. A. Warner, Cathcart's 

 freezing microtome. F. L. Berney, specimen of pied sparrow from 

 Croydon. A. H. Allen, white starling from Suffolk. J. Epps, horse- 

 worm (Ascaris), twelve inches in length. H. D. Gower, larvae of 

 Ephemera. 



March 11th. — E. Lovett, flint gorges and fish-hooks from Jersey 

 cave ; shell-hooks fi'om the islands of the N. Pacific ; bone, wood, and 

 metal hooks from N. America; fresh and salt water artificial trolling 

 baits, salmon and trout flies, &c. Dr. Franklin Parsons, Devonian and 

 carboniferous limestone fossils. J. H. Drage, drawings of abnormal 



