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Hymenoptera. — About 50, including ess than 12 high-class mounts. 



CoJeoptera. — About 45 medium mounts, very few really good. 



Diptera. — About 60. Some good mounts and dissections, but the 

 latter roughly mounted and in poor condition. 



Lepidoplera. — A good series of about 20 eggs ; 50 or 60 scales, not 

 examined ; and about 20 other slides, Some good. 



Mollusca. — Over 400 named Radulte and about 40 hard sections, 

 chiefly by Carpenter. 



Bryozoa. — A good collection of about 200 named species. 



Echinodermata. — Over 60 slides, including several mounts by 

 Carpenter, but in poor condition. 



There ure no representatives of the Chaetognatha (Sagitta) or 

 Hemichordata. One slide for each of the groups Urochordata (Pyrosoma), 

 Gephalochordata (Amphioxus), and Cydostomata (Lamprey). 



Fishes. — About fifty slides, chiefly scales, hardly any anatomical. 



Amphihia, Reptilia. — About 40, including some good anatomical 

 preparations. 



Birds. — About 40 slides, half of which are opaque injections of 

 fowl, of no great interest or value. 



Mammalia. — The anatomical section consists of rather more than 100 

 slides, including some good preparations by Cole and others, a large 

 number of opaque injections by Farrant ; good examples of this class of 

 mount, but of little value as micro slides. Modern preparations illus- 

 trating recent technique and histology are badly required. 



Mammalian Hairs. — About 90 mounts, including a series of bat 

 hairs (dry and balsam) of some interest. 



Bones and Teeth. — The Beck Collection consists of over 400 prepara- 

 tions of the highest class, in a special cabinet. These must not be lent 

 to Fellows under the terms of the gift. 



A fine series of mounts by Tucker will be available for loan. 



Human. — Apart from the Zeiss series of about 90 preparations, there 

 are some 80 or 90 mounts, anatomical and pathological. They are as a 

 whole poor specimens, and modern preparations illustrating recent 

 technique are desirable. 



Vegetable Kingdom. 



The lower Algse, a specially interesting group to the microscopist, 

 are very badly represented — Oyanophycese by some 20 slides of poor 

 quality, Ghlorophycex even worse : only 25 slides to represent Green 

 Alg£e ! 8ome of these are very poor, but have been retained in the 

 absence of other mounts. Among them is a slide of Volvox globator, 

 the only representative of its order, which was mounted in 1849. There 

 should be no difficulty in gathering a suitable collection of Green Alg«. 

 There are only five poor Desmid slides and one Ghara. 



The Red Algae are well represented by over 200 slides mounted by 

 Mrs. Clarke, of Whitby, which in spite of their age are in good con- 

 dition. 



Fungi. — Very poorly represented by about 20 very old mounts. 



Lichens, 2. Liverworts, 8. Mosses, 5. 



Ferns, 13. Equisetacese, 4. Lycopodinoe 2. 



