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and the menace which it offers, apart from Sleeping Sickness, to 
the commercial prosperity of the country, it was deemed desirable 
that a trained Entomologist should study seriously the bionomics 
of this insect, with the view of devising some means for its 
control, Prorsssor NewsTEapD was therefore instructed to take 
part in the preliminary investigations, and left England for this 
purpose on June 9th, 1911. He was absent for a period of five 
months, three of which were passed in the Protectorate. The 
results of his investigations will, we are informed, be published in 
an Official Bulletin in the course of a month or so. 
At a Meeting of the Microscopical Section of our Society held 
on December 15th, Mr. J. D. Sippaty exhibited and described 
a very remarkable Diatom he had discovered in surface nettings 
sent to him from Bournemouth by Mr, T. SHEPHEARD. 
Mr. Srppaxv’s statement that this was the first occasion on 
which pseudopodia had been demonstrated in any Diatom aroused 
great interest, among Microscopists especially. 
By invitation of the Royal Microscopical Society, Mr, Sip- 
DALL gave a further demonstration, and read a Paper at their 
meeting on April 17th. at the Hanover Square Rooms, London. 
He had a most cordial reception, and we look upon this interest- 
ing discovery as ‘an honour to him and also to the Society whose 
interests and reputation he has always done so much to uphold. 
We regret to have to record the death of Mr. G. R. Griffith, 
who was for many years Hon, Secretary, and latterly one of the 
Vice-Presidents of the Society. During its first two decades, 
Mr. Griffith did more perhaps than anyone else for the Society, 
and it was largely due to his excellent organizing capacity that 
the Society was first put upon a proper working basis. His 
interest in all branches of work carried on in the Grosvenor 
Museum was kept up to the last, and the various Societies which 
meet in the building are the poorer by his death. 
A perusal of the Balance Sheets of the General Account of 
the Society, the Kingsley Memorial and the Legacies Funds, will 
show that all are in a healthy condition, each showing a credit 
balance. 
