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FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



Taking into consideration the difficulties of the past year, the 

 Committee feels that the report it presents is, on the whole, a 

 satisfactory one. During the year 1919, thirty-seven new 

 members were elected, three have resigned and ten members 

 have been removed by death. Amongst these the loss of Sir 

 Frank Crisp, a former Vice-President, Prof. G. S. West, lately 

 elected an Honorary Member, and Mr. John Hopkinson, late 

 Secretary to the Ray Society, is deplored not only by the Club, 

 but by the world of science. We regret also to record the death 

 of Mr. Alfred George, Librarian to the Club since 1917. The 

 number of members on December 31st was 464. The most 

 important event to record has been the removal to our new 

 quarters at 11, Chandos St., Cavendish Sq., W.l. This change, 

 arrived at after much careful consideration, has not been what 

 the Committee desired, involving, as it does, separation from 

 the Library, and inconvenience, particularly on Gossip evenings 

 and in the use of the Cabinet, thus curtailing the usefulness of the 

 Club very considerably. 



The principal communications during the year have been as 

 follows : 



Papers read and Communications made to the Q.M.C. to 

 THE End of the Year 1919. 



January \ith. — Dr. J. R. Leeson : Insect-eating Plants. Mr. 



E. M. Nelson : A New Form of Micro-polariscope. 

 February Wth. — Presidential Address : Adaptation of Plants to 



their Environment. 

 March Wth. — Mr. C. D. Soar : The Water-mite : Oxus plantaris. 



Mr. George West : Amphora inflexa : a Rare Marine Diatom. 

 April 8th. — Mr. E. K. Maxwell : The Amateur Microscopist in 



War-time. 

 May 13th. — Dr. H. Hartridge : Microscopical Illumination. Mr. 



E. M. Nelson : The Greenough Binocular ; Pollen as a 



Polariscope Object ; The History of the Club's Premises. 



