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year’s number. Amongst the new Members, several, if 
not all of them, are well-known to many of us as having 
done good work in fields which lie within the scope and 
sphere of Naturalists. Some indeed bear attestations 
after their names to their having gained the approval 
of the State when serving her, or that of examiners 
in Art or Science, and of the members of learned 
Societies—we welcome their coming among us with a 
firm expectation that they will enhance the reputation of 
the Club. 
We are a Scientific Club—not a social one. And 
though far be it from me to say that only scientific men - 
should be elected—for ¢hat were barring an outlet through 
which many a one dungeoned in the darkness of ignorance 
might escape into the light of fuller knowledge—yet I do 
say that if Science knocks at our door in the person of 
her humblest born son, the knock should be like the 
“Open Sesame” of romance, and admittance forthwith 
eranted. 
I turn to what has been done by some of our Members 
as evidenced by their published works. But naturally 
much of this escapes even the eyes of our Secretary. It 
would save him much trouble if the Members would 
communicate the titles of any paper or book they may 
publish. 
Mr S. S. Buckman has published, Part XIII of “A 
Monograph on the Inferior-Oolite Ammonites of the 
British Islands” (Pa/. Soc. 1905); a paper “ On Certain 
Genera and Species of Lytoceratide ” (Quart. Journ. 
Geol, Soc. vol. lxt., 7905) , and one on ‘““The Nomenclature 
of Types in Natural History,” in collaboration with Dr 
Charles Schuchert of Yale University, in “Science,” in 
America, in the “Annals and Magazine of Natural 
History,” in England, and it has also been translated into 
French and published in the “Archives de Zoologie.” He 
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