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mittee hope the coming year may be productive of increased activity 
and consequent prosperity." 
The Eeport of the Committee having been unanimously adopted ; 
the Treasurer's Eeport and Balance Sheet, in which a sum of 761. 6s. 3d. 
was carried forward to the credit of the club, was then read, and it 
was unanimously agreed that it be received and adopted. 
A vote of thanks to the officers of the club for their services 
during the past year was heartily accorded by the meeting. 
The President then gave an address on "Eggs and Embryos," 
after which the meeting resolved itself into a conversazione. 
An ordinary meeting was held on Tuesday evening, April 18, 
Charles Stewart, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 
A paper was read by T. Charters White, Esq., M.E.C.S., on " The 
Aquarium as a Field of Microscopical Eesearch." Mr. White gave a 
detailed account of the form of tank which he found most successful, 
and fully described the way in which it should be stocked ; and he 
then gave an interesting account of some of the investigations which 
he had been able to make into the development of the animal and 
vegetable life which flourishes in an aquarium. 
At the ordinary meeting held on Tuesday evening, May 16, 
Charles Stewart, Esq., M.E.C.S., F.L.S., President, in the chair^ a 
paper was read by W. N. Hartley, Esq., F.C.S , on " Cavities in 
Crystals." As, however, the substance of this paper has already 
appeared in this Journal,* it will be unnecessary to reproduce it here. 
At the above five meetings of the club, eighteen gentlemen, pro- 
posed as members, were balloted for and duly elected. 
Adelaide Microscopical Club, South Australia.! 
The twentieth meeting of the Adelaide Microscope Club was held 
on January 7, Mr. Gurner in the chair. Mr. Mais showed Moller's 
diatom plate with photographed names, under a Eoss's binocular ; also 
Lernean from shark. The Hon. Sec. brought nidamentary capsules of 
octopus. Mr. Gurner took for his subject, " Insect Structures from 
the Eucalyptus," showing insect eggs, and nests of most varied construc- 
tion, found on the bark, leaves, and in the woody fibre of gum-trees. 
The twenty-first meeting was held on February 4, Mr. C. W. 
Babbage in the chair. The subject chosen by the Chairman was 
" Cuticles of Leaves," specimens of native and other plants being 
shown in illustration. At the following meeting (March 3) the 
chair was taken by Dr. Gardner, subject " Urinary Deposits." Dr. 
Whittell showed section of an epithelial cancer from the tongue. 
Mr. Smeaton brought a very rich gathering of diatoms, and sponge 
and Holothuria spicula, recently obtained from Point Vincent, Bid- 
dulphias being particularly abundant. A number of interesting fishes 
* Vol. XV. p. 170. 
t Contributed by Thomas D. Smeaton, Hon. Sec. 
