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The proceedings then terminated, and the meeting was adjourned 

 to November. 



Donations to the Library, &c,, since June 3, 1874 : — 



From 



Nature. Weekly The Editor. 



Athenseum. Weekly Ditto. 



Society of Arts Joiirnal Society. 



Traiisactious of the Linnean Society. Two parts . . . . Ditto. 



Journal of the Linueau Society, No. 76 Ditto. 



Popular Science Keview, Nos. 52 and 53 Editor. 



Journal of the Geological Society, No. 119 Society. 



Smitlisoniau Report for 1872 Institution, 



Bulletin de la Socie'te' Botanique de Fi-ance. Three parts Society. 



The Toner Lectm-es. By Dr. J. J. Woodward. lUustrated'l The Surgeon-General, 



with seventy-four Photogrnphs / U.S.A. 



A simple microscope and set of powers by Tully 



A single microscope by Dollaud 



An ancient microscope and some spectacles that were used'* Dr. John E. Gray, 



by the late Mr. Kobert Brown j E.JR.S., 4-0. 



One slide of silica film II. J. Slack, Esq. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist.-Secretary. 



QuEKETT Microscopical Club. 



Annual Meeting, July 24. — Dr. Braithwaite, F.L.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



The Ninth Annual Eeport of the Committee was read, giving 

 details of the work accomplished by the club during the past year, and 

 testifying to the continuance of its prosperity, and successful progress 

 in the course marked out by its founders. The President read the 

 Annual Addi-ess, in the course of which he made some interesting 

 remarks upon the function of the various organs of plants, tracing the 

 chemical and physiological changes which took place during the 

 germination of the seed and the development of the plant, thus adding 

 a sujiplement to the valuable and interesting series of papers " On the 

 Histology of Plants," written by him for the club. 



Officers for the ensiling year were elected, the President being Dr. 

 John Matthews, F.E.M.S., who was duly inducted by the retiiing 

 President. 



Dr. W. Sharpey, F.R.S., &c., was unanimously elected an honorary 

 member of the club, and four ordinary members were also elected. 



Ordinary Meeting, August. 28.— Dr. Matthews, F.E.M.S,, Presi- 

 dent, in the chair. 



Three members were elected. 



Extracts were read from a letter written by Mr. S. Green, of 

 Colombo, to Mr. T. Curties, giving further details of his methods of 

 mounting insects without pressui-e, so as to preserve their natui-al 

 appearance, and a further communication on the subject was promised. 



There being no paper, Mr. Ingpen made some remarks upon two 

 gatherings of Volvox, both obtained on the 1st of January last, one of 



