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contain a diagnosis of all the species of recent animals, 

 and will, in fact, be for the end of the nineteenth century 

 what the " Systema naturae " of Linne was in his day. 



Mr. Allen exhibited a large, well-illustrated German 

 book on the injury suffered by forest trees in Silesia, 

 principally conifers, due to local industries, entitled, 

 " Waldschaden im Ober-schlesischen Industrie-bezirk," 

 by Prof. Dr. Bernard Borggrem. Frankfurt. 1895. 



General Meeting, April 14th, 1896. 



Henry Wilde, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected ordinary mem- 

 bers of the Society : Mr. George Behrens, Fallowfield ; 

 Mr. James B. Bindloss, Eccles ; Mr. James Clayton- 

 Chorlton, Didsbury ; Mr. Thomas E. Stanton, M.Sc, 

 senior demonstrator in the Whitworth Engineering Labo- 

 ratory, Owens College, Manchester ; and Mr. Arthur 

 Harden, M.Sc, Ph.D., senior demonstrator of chemistry, 

 Owens College, Manchester. 



