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PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



QUEKETT MICROSCOPICAL CLUB. 



At the 554:tli Ordinary Meeting of the Club, held on October 12th, 

 1920, the President, Dr. A. B. Rendle, M.A., F.R.S., in the 

 chair, the minutes of the meeting held on June 8th were read 

 and confirmed. 



Mrs. A. C. Clarke, Messrs. Frederick Addey, B.Sc, G. Oldfield 

 Allen, Arthur Curwen and Richard S. Bagnall, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 

 were balloted for and duly elected members of the Club. Eight 

 nominations were read for the first time. 



The thanks of the meeting was accorded to Mr. Bell, of Melbourne, 

 Mr. D. E. Williams, of Australia, and Messrs. Gillespie and C. J. 

 Sidwell for their contributions of slides to the Club Cabinet. The 

 meeting received with regret the announcement by the President 

 of the death of Mr. Wynne E. Baxter, who had been a member of 

 the Club for nearly thirty years. He was born in 1844, and served 

 for many years as coroner for East London ; he was the first 

 mayor of Lewes, 1881-2, and will be known to the members 

 as the translator of Van Heurck's Treatise on the Diatomaceae and 

 The Microscope : Its Construction and Management. 



Mr. Addey then exhibited a scale for measming directly the 

 actual size of objects in microscopical drawings or photographs 

 made to any known magnification. Mr. Edgar exhibited a home- 

 made modification of Baker's nature microscope, the various 

 movements being so constructed that rough usage would not be 

 likely to spoil them. Mr. Traviss exhibited a simple but very 

 effective cover-glass cleaner consisting of a flat block of wood with 

 a flap of American cloth glued on to one side, so that it can be 

 wrapped over the flat surface. Cover-glasses when placed on the 

 American cloth may be rubbed hard with a cloth without risk of 

 moving or breaking them, and when clean can easily be removed 

 from the loose flap of material. 



The President then called on Dr. J. Rudd Leeson to read his 

 paper on " Nature's Infinite Variety." It is impossible to do more 



