CONTENTS. 



TRANSACTIONS OF TEE SOCIETY. 



PAGE 



I. — Report on the Recent Foraminifera of the Malay Archipelago collected by 

 Mr. A. Durrand, F.R.M.S.— Part X. By Fortescue William Millett, 

 F.R.M.S. (Plate I.) 1 



II— The President's Address. By William Oarruthers, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 113 



III.— On Tube Leugth. By Edward M. Nelson. (Figs. 18 and 19) 123 



IV. — List of Some of the Rotifera of Natal. By Hon. Thomas Kirkman, 



M.L.C., F.R.M.S. (Plate VI.) 229 



V.— The Working Aperture. By Edward M. Nelson 242 



VI. — Ou a Method of Increasing the Stability of Quiuidine as a Mounting 

 Material. By H. G. Madan, M.A., F.O.S., Fellow of Queen's College, 

 Oxford 246 



VII. — An Examination of the Abbe Diffraction Theory of the Microscope By 



J.W.Gordon. (Figs. 65-94 and Plate VII.) 353 



VIII. — Report on the Recent Foraminifera of the Malay Archipelago collected by 

 Mr. A. Durrand, F.R.M.S.— Part XI. By Fortescue William Millett, 

 F.R.M.S. (Plate VIII.) 485 



IX. — Fungi found on Farm Seeds when tested for Germination ; with an Account 



of two Fungi new to Britain. By A. Lorrain Smith. (Plate XIII.) . . 613 



X. — Report on the Recent Foraminifera of the Malay Archipelago collected by 

 Mr. A. Durrand, F.R.M.S.— Part XII. By Fortescue William Millett, 

 F.R.M.S. (Plate XIV.) 619 



NOTES. 



Resolution of Am phipleura pellucida. By A. Eliot Merlin and E. M. Nelson .. 397 

 Note on a Travelling and Sea-side Microscope. By Mr. A. A. C. Eliot Merlin. 



(Fig. 103) 498 



The Abbe Diffraction Theory. By J. W. Gordon, F.R.M.S 629 



OBITUARY 



George Shadbolt .. ^49 



John Ware Stephenson 398 



