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had appeared in the parent, so that if the child passed this period of life, the 

 system seemed to lose its susceptibility for that particular disease. How these 

 matters were to be explained by the Pangenesists he did not know, 



Mr. Lowne, in reply, thought that it was not more strange that germs should 

 pass out of cells than that nutriment should pass in. 



A very cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Lowne was then unanimously carried, 

 and the proceedings terminated with a conversazione, at which the following 

 objects were exhibited : — 



Aphides on Lysimachia Nummularia by Mr. Hain worth and Mr. Quick. 



Gizzard of Cockroach , , Mr. Quick. 



Triceratium, Stylodactylis Mr. Meacher. 



Section of Cannel Coal Mr. Slade. 



Crystals of Borate of Ammonia ... Mr. Conder. 



Caprella Lobata Mr. T. C. White. 



October 28th, 1870 — Chairman, Dr. Lionel S. Beale, F.R.S., 



President. 



The following donations to the Club were announced : — 



" Land and Water " (weekly) ... ... from the Editor. 



" The Monthly Microscopical Journal " ... the Publisher. 



" Science Gossip " ,, 



" The Popular Science Review " ,, 



"Archives of Science and Transactions of i 



the Orleans County Society" ] in exchange. 



" The American Naturalist " „ 



"Proceedings of the Brighton and Sussex -\ 



Natural History Society," and " The > the Society. 



Moss Flora of Sussex," by Mr. C. P. Smith ) 



12 Slides of diatoms Mr. A. C Cole, Liverpool. 



1 Slide .. Mr. Tatem, Reading. 



" Land and Fresh Water Shells" Mr. T. Gibson, Liverpool. 



" Synopsis of British Sea Weeds," by Pro- t 



fessor Harvey } Mr. Jno. Michels. 



The thanks of the Club were returned to the donors. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected members of the 

 Club :— The Rev. F. H. Allen, Mr. C. H. Golding Bird, B.A., Mr. W. A. Green, 

 Mr. A. J. Johnson, Mr. W. Kean, Mr. M. G. Williams. 



Mr. J. Slade read a paper "On the Microscopic Characteristics of Cannel 

 Coal, and the method of preparing coal sections for the Microscope." The sub- 

 ject was illustrated by diagrams. 



A unanimous vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Slade for his paper. 



Mr. Suffolk inquired how Mr. Slade got rid of the remains of the marine glue 

 previous to mounting his finished coal sections. 



Mr. Slade said that he had not found it necessary to attempt to get rid of it, 

 the sections were mounted without detaching them. In reply to a question 

 from Dr. Matthews, Mr. Slade said that he believed that coal naphtha would act 

 as a solvent of marine glue. 



