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"The Botanical Gazette" 



" The Scientific Inquirer ; ' 



" The American Naturalist," two parts . 



" Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical 

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{; Proceedings of the Geologists' Association " ... 



" Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of ) 

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" Annual Report and Proceedings of the Liver- 

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" Journal of the Pioyai Microscopical Society " From the Society. 

 " Annals of Natural History " ... ... ... Purchased. 



Mr. E. T. Browne read a paper on a new species of Orthezia (Orthezia 

 insignis) found in Kew Gardens. 



The Chairman invited discussion on the paper, and called on Mr. 

 Mclntire, whose name had been mentioned in Mr. Browne's communication. 



Mr. Mclntire thought he could add nothing to Mr. Browne's remarks. 

 He congratulated the members on having secured so promising an inquirer 

 into the secrets of the microscope. 



Mr. Freeman remarked that he had brought a specimen of Orthezia ob- 

 tained from Sphagnum Moss on a Scotch Moor, which it was interesting to 

 compare with the new species. In the Scotch insect the waxy secretion 

 was disposed in an even manner, like plates or scales. There was no en- 

 largement at the end of the body to form an egg pouch. The specific name 

 of this one was Cataphractus, " armed at all points." 



Mr. Hardy desired to make a few remarks in further explanation of Mr. 

 Davis' paper, read at the last meeting, on the parasite that gentleman had 

 found on the stickleback. Mr. Davis had written to him that it was 

 Gyrodaetgliis elegans. It was figured and described in the " Micro- 

 graphic Dictionary," also in Cobbold, and in the tC Linnean Transactions" 

 of 1860. He would, however, add a few observations he had made on 

 examining the creature more carefully to complete the description given by 

 Mr. Davis. 



Mr. Hardy shortly described what he had observed, illustrating his 

 remarks by drawings on the black-board. 



Announcements for the ensuing month having been made, the meeting 

 concluded with the usual conversazione, at which the following objects were 

 exhibited : — 



Rotifer, Pedaliou mira, from wet moss ... Mr. F. W. Andrew. 

 Plant-Bug, Orthezia cataphractus ... ... Mr. H. E. Freeman. 



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, Tr n, -, C Mr. E. T. Brow T ne. 



from Kew Gardens ... ... ... ) 



Attendance— Members, 30; Visitor, 1. 



