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seeing that they had been the means of producing not only the further excel- 

 lent remarks from Mr. Buffham, but also the full, clear and distinct avowal 

 of the absence of any feeling which might otherwise have been thought to 

 be present. He did not himself think that it was, but still it might just 

 possibly have been thought so by others, and perhaps have led someone to 

 consider what a very deficient work Harvey's was after all, whereas he did 

 not know a botanist anywhere whose work had been more carefully or con- 

 scientiously done than that of Professor Harvey. He, therefore, would ask 

 the meeting now to give a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Bnffham for his very 

 interesting paper — he could only feel that it was a cause of great regret 

 that papers of that sort were so few and far between. He thought also, that 

 those of them who had been anxious to increase their library by the addi- 

 tion of such books as these would be encouraged to know, that in this 

 instance at least, such good results had followed, and he w r ould express a hope 

 that the example set would lead to similar results in other directions, and 

 that other members would be moved to take up other studies at the points 

 where someone else had laid them down. As regarded books on this subject 

 there was no work in English, either here or in America, on the Floridea3, 

 but there had been many in French. Books, however, now-a-days mul- 

 tiplied so rapidly that he could not keep pace with them, and it was in 

 consequence often more pleasure to him to shirk a book than to dip into it. 

 A vote of thanks to Mr. Buffham was unanimously carried. 

 Announcements of Meetings, &c, for the ensuing month were then made, 

 and the meeting terminated with the usual conversazione, when the follow- 

 ing objects were exhibited : — 



Various slides illustrative of his paper ... Mr. T. H. Buffham. 



Group of AcinetcB ... ... ... ... Mr. W. G. Cocks. 



Poclophrya quadripartita ... ... ... „ „ 



Long. sec. Grain of Maize ... ... ... Mr. J. Cole. 



Cockroach, Periplaneta Germanica ... ... Mr. H. E. Freeman. 



Hoplophora contractilis . . . ... ... ... Mr. H. R. Gregory. 



Casts of Foraminifera, &c, from Calcareous") m - tt it "H "lp<a 

 Sandstone from Bombay ... ... ) 



Fibro-cells of Orchid, Oncidium licallosum ... Mr. G. E. Mainland. 



Arcturus longicornis ... ... ... ... Mr. A. D. Michael. 



Section of leaf, Abies subalpina ... ... Mr. J. W. Reed. 



Trans, sec. spinal cord of Calf... ... ... Mr. F. Steele. 



Living eggs of Limncea auricularis ... ... Mr. A. W. Stokes. 



Diatoms, Aulacodiscus Petersii ... ... Mr. G. Sturt. 



Mercurous Chloride ... Mr. H. J. Waddington. 



Attendance — Members, 63 ; Visitors, 4. 



