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Six members of the Society" also entered the "Camera and 

 Lantern Review " Annual Competition, and though we were not 

 successful in obtaining either first or second place your Committee 

 are glad to inform you that we were placed amongst those 

 Societies obtaining " hon. mention." 



Your Committee desire to tender their best thanks to the 

 Photographic Section of the Croydon Microscopical Club for 

 adjudicating in both competitions. 



The best thanks of this Section are also due to Mr. J. P. 

 Slingsby Roberts, the Chairman, and to Mr. D. B. Caush, the 

 Secretary, for their attendance to the duties of their offices. 



MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 



Chairman : Dr. Arthur Newsholme, M.R.C.P. 



Committee : Messes. Joseph Lewis, D. E. Caush, and 

 E. T. Wynne, M.B. 



Secretary : Mr. W. W. Mitchell, 66, Preston Road. 



The Section meets on the third Thursday of the month at 

 8 p.m. The place of meeting is notified to the members each 

 month by the Secretary. 



REPORT. 



At the conclusion of their year of office the Committee beg 

 to report that the Section has held three meetings with the object 

 of promoting the work of the Section, viz., November 22nd, 

 January 31st, and March 28th. 



At the first (November 22nd) the subject was " Acari," 

 introduced by Mr. D. E. Caush. 



After giving a detailed account of the life of a beetle's 

 parasite through the four stages of egg, larva, pupa, and insect, 

 Mr. Caush showed slides of cheese mites, parasites of beetles, bees, 

 housefly, gnat, &c., with short notice of any peculiarity present. 



January Slst, 1895, "The development of the Eye," by Mr. 

 E. T. Wynne, M.B. 



