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Dr. Cooke's "Fresh Water Algae" 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 

 The President read a letter from Mr. Kitton, " On an Algal form growing 

 in a Solution of Sulphate of Copper." The slide sent by Mr. Kitton had 

 unfortunately been broken in the post, but enough remained to enable him 

 to form an opinion that it was more of the nature of a fungus, such as was 

 occasionally met with in this kind of Solution. He had frequently met with 

 these fungoid growths, sometimes in places where they might have beenl east 

 expected. Once he found some in a solution of Carbolic Acid in Glycerine ; 

 and at another time he found a lai-ge bottle of Liquor Arsenicalis to contain 

 a great quantity. 



Mr. E. T. Newton asked if the President examined the fungus to which he 

 referred under the microscope, so as to assure himself that it was really a 

 fungus, and not a deposit of the flocculent matter which was often seen in 

 solutions ? In the treatment of disease and of wounds very diluted carbolic 

 acid was successfully used to destroy fungoid growths, and it seemed 

 curious that they were found to grow freely in a concentrated solution. 



Dr. Matthews said that formerly, for convenience in dispensing, he used 

 to keep various salts in solution, but experience showed that none of them 

 could be kept thus for any length of time, all of them developing mycelium. 

 This was especially noticed to be the case with citric acid or tartaric acid, 

 and compounds with alkalis. The only thing which seemed to resist the 

 formation was alcohol. 



Mr. Buffham said that a solution containing £ alcohol had been tried, but 

 it did not prevent the evil ; but he had tried a solution of oamphor in dis- 



