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list of booksellers, but still no date ; at the back of the title page,- how- 

 ever, was a small square printed label gummed on, headed " Errata," 

 containing a list of live corrections to be made in the text, and at the 

 bottom, " The Defects in the Punctuation it is hoped will be excused ; 

 and the Date May 1, 1784, added at the End of the Introduction." 



The other book he would like to bring to the notice of the Society 

 was really a triumph for the collector : It was a book mentioned in 

 Sherborn's Bibliography under the heading Batsch. The work of Batsch 

 was a trial to students of the Foraminifera because his book was most 

 extraordinarily scarce, yet he was the first authority for the specific 

 nomenclature of several very important Foraminifera. Mr. Sherborn 

 records Batsch's well-known " Sechs Kupfertafeln mit Conchylien des 

 Seesandes, gezeichnet und gestochen von A. J. G. K. Batsch," a work pub- 

 lished in 1791, which consisted of six copper-plates, some copies of which 

 were coloured by hand, and a wrapper on which was printed their de- 

 scription. Of this original work there were some five or six copies known 

 to be extant, the only perfect copy in England being in the library of 

 the Royal Society. Then Mr. Sherborn gives the title of a Latin 

 edition of this work : " Testaceorum/Arenulse Marinse/Tabulae Sex 

 Priores/ad opus, Testacea minutiora, hucusque [?minusque] nota, 

 nondum in scriptis divulgata, accuratius tiesignata complectens 

 elaborate, speciminis loco secundum naturam delineatse et aeri in- 

 cisse. 4to, Jena., 1791"; which he stated to have been referred to by 

 Schroeter in 1803, and he gave the full title from Engelmann's Biblio- 

 graphy of Natural History published in 1846. A little time ago he 

 had advertised in the " Publisher's Circular " for certain extremely 

 rare books on the Foraminifera which he had been anxious to get 

 — Batsch among the number — and a bookseller wrote saying he 

 had a copy, and sending for it he had found on its arrival that it 

 was the " Testaceorurn arenulee," the Latin edition referred to by 

 Schroeter in 1803, and which had apparently disappeared since that 

 date. He collated the title with Engelmann's description of it, and found 

 at least four discrepancies in the title as transcribed by Sherborn in 

 his bibliography. The correct title is as follows: "Testaceorurn/ 

 Arenulte Marinae/Tabulse Sex Priores/ad opus, Testacea minutiora, hue 

 usque nota, vel nondum/in scriptis divvulgata, accuratius designata 

 complectens/elaborandum, speciminis loco secundum naturam/delineataj 

 et aeri incisre ab Aug. Io Georg. Car. Batsch/Profess. Ienensi/Iena; 

 Saxorum/Prostant in Bibliopolio Academico/in Commissis m.d.cc.xci." 

 There was no copy of this work in the Library at Jena, nor had he (the 

 Speaker) been able to find a copy in any public library in Europe, at 

 which he had been able to make enquiries. 



The Chairman announced that the Roll was there for Fellows to 

 sign who had not already done so. 



The next Meeting of the Biological Section would be held on 

 AVednesday, November 4, at the Society's Rooms, at 7 o'clock. 



That of the Brass and Glass Section would be held on Wednesday, 

 October 28. 



