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a peculiarity that is not known to occur in any recent charo- 

 pliytes. After some remarks by the President and Messrs. 

 Scourfield and N. E. Brown, the meeting closed with a very 

 hearty vote of thanks to Canon Bullock- Webster for his very 

 interesting address. 



At the 558th Ordinary Meeting, being also the 55th Annual 

 General Meeting of the Club, held on February 8th, the President, 

 Dr. A. B. Rendle, M.A., F.R.S., in the chair, the minutes of the 

 meeting held on January 11th were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Leonard Henry Tinson, Cecil Charles Swatman and 

 Robert Pease were balloted for and duly elected members of the 

 Club. Two nominations were read for the first time. 



The Hon. Secretary announced that Mr. Woodman had 

 presented Bauermann's Descriptive Mineralogy to the Club Library, 

 and that Mr. W. J. Ireland had presented Bell's Chemistry of 

 Foods. 



It had been arranged for a series of exhibitions of new apparatus, 

 etc., to be made by various opticians at the Gossip Meetings ; 

 Messrs. Beck would give an exhibition at the next Gossip Meeting 

 on February 22nd. The news of the death of Dr. E. J. Spitta, 

 which was announced by the President, was received with much 

 regret, and the Hon. Secretary was instructed to send letters of 

 condolence to his family from both the committee and the 

 meeting. It was agreed that, as there had only been sufficient 

 nominations to fill the various offices and the vacancies on the 

 committee, the election by ballot should be dispensed with, and 

 the President thereupon read the list of the officers and com- 

 mittee for the current year. The Hon. Secretary was then called 

 upon to read the 55th Annual Report. The progress of the 

 Club had been satisfactory ; fifty-six new members had been 

 elected during the year, a number only exceeded in 1906, when 

 it was fifty-seven. Twenty-six members had been lost by 

 death and resignation. The attendance averaged seventy at 

 the Ordinary and sixty-two at the Gossip Meetings. During 

 the year the Club had admitted women to its membership, and so 

 fallen into line with most of the scientific societies. Dr. Rendle's 

 kindness in arranging for the housing of the Library had been 

 appreciated and good use made of the books. It had also been 



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