Proceedings. Iv 



Presmtations to the Club, 1886. 



Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Science Gossip; from 

 the Publishers. Across Canada to the Rocky Mountains, by H. T. 

 Mennell, F.L.S. ; presented by the Author. Notes on the Physical 

 Geography and Geology of Western Canada, by W. Topley, F.G.S., 

 and on the Flora and Vegetation of Western Canada, by H. T. Mennell, 

 F.L.S. ; presented by the Authors. On the Structure of Naias 

 graminea, by C. Bailey, F.L.S. Report of the Botanical Exchange 

 Club for 1884, by A. Bennett, F.L.S. Report of the Smithsonian 

 Institute. Proceedings of the South London Entomological Society 

 for 1885. Annual Report of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History 

 Club. Twenty-eighth Report of the East Kent Natural History 

 Society. Annual Report of the Sidcup Scientific SocietJ^ Report of 

 the Belgium Microscopical Society. Le Naturaliste for April. Report 

 of the British Association for 1884 (Montreal) ; presented by W. F. 

 Stanley. Report of the Committee on the Erosion of the Sea Coasts 

 of England and Wales ; presented by W. Topley. Proces verbaux des 

 Sciences de la Societe Royal Malacologique de Belgique for 1885. 

 Annual Report of the Manchester Microscopical Society. Annual 

 Report of the Hackney Microscopical Society. On the Occurrence of 

 Naias graminea in Lancashire, by Charles Bailey ; i^resented by the 

 Author. Journals of the Quekett Microscopical Club ; Northampton- 

 shh-e Natiii'al History Club ; and the West Kent Natural History 

 Society. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Soiith London Microscopical 

 and Natural History Club. Wood's Index Entomologicus, 1 vol. ; 

 Westwood's British Butterflies, 1 vol. ; Westwood's British Moths, 

 2 vols. ; presented by Mr. Basil Greenfield. 



Exhibits, 1886. 



Ja7i. 13th. — J. H. Drage, nest and eggs of the Dipper (C. aquaticus) 

 taken from a hole in the rock by the side of a stream in Dumfries- 

 shire. W. L. Sarjeant, microscope arranged to show how a good 

 " black-gromid illumination" could be obtained by means of the 

 ordinarj' bull's-eye condenser, by using it as a spot-lens. 



March 10th. — W. Topley, diagrams and maps illustrating alterations 

 of coast-line, &c., in Great Britain. E. Lovett, the rare sound- 

 producing Crustacean {Alpheus ruber) from the Channel Islands, and 

 specimens of raised beaches from old coast-line of Jersey and Sark. 

 Dr. Franklin Parsons, vegetable remains in peat fr-om various localities. 

 A. Bennett, a new Surrey plant (Equisetum litorale) found by Mr. 

 Beeby. 



A])ril IWi. — Dr. A. Carpenter, diagrams and microscopic slides of 

 disease-germs. Kenneth McKean, platinotypes of the type-specimen 

 oi Arctium nemorosumhom the Royal Herbarium of Bi'ussels, lent 

 to ]\Ir. Beeb_y for identification; also odontoj^hore of Haliotis tubercu- 

 lata. W. L. Sarjeant, slides oi Bacillus tuherculosus, &c. 



May 12th. — -F. C. Baj-ard, cm-ves from a Recard thermogi-aph, a 

 Recard barograph, and a Jordan sunshine recorder. J. H. Drage, 

 the Grey Plover and the Eared Grebe, both shot in Norfolk in the 

 sprmg of 1886. E. Straker and W. L. Sarjeant, platinotypes and 

 photographs. 



