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in the publication of the reports of their meetings and excur- 

 sions." 



The resolution being put to the meeting was carried 

 unanimously. 



This concluding the business of the annual meeting. 



Mr. Joseph Wright, F.G.S., brought forward a short 

 communication, giving the results of his microscopic examin- 

 ation of some sand and mud gathered during the Club's recent 

 excursion to South Donegal. (For full details of the results 

 see Appendix, at the end of this part of the Proceedings.) 



Mr. W. A. Firth exhibited some very rare diatoms of the 

 genera Aulacodiocus, Entogonia, Triceratium^ &c., obtained from 

 Barbadoes chalk. In three small samples of the material sent 

 him for examination he found no less than fifteen genera, com- 

 prising quite a number of rare and interesting species. These 

 results are of interest, as the late Dr. Greville, in communica- 

 tions brought before the Royal Microscopical Society of London, 

 in 1861-65, figured and described several new species of 

 diatoms obtained from a small sample of chalk from Cambridge 

 Estate, Barbadoes, which proved to be extremely rich in these 

 minute organisms ; and although numerous examples of this 

 chalk have since been examined, few of them have yielded 

 diatoms. 



An interesting microscopic slide of gold dust was exhibited, 

 the material having been sent to the Club by a late member — 

 Mr. John Moore Johnston — who washed it from the bed of a 

 stream, at Mataura, New Zealand. 



The election of new members, and the examination of the 

 foregoing specimens, &c., brought the interesting meeting to a 

 close. 



