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The Postal Microscopical Society. — The twentieth Annual 

 Meeting of the Society will be held at Cambridge on Saturday, 

 October yth, and it is hoped that as many members as can make 

 it convenient will be present. 



Members are invited to take Luncheon with G. H. Bryan, 

 Esq., the retiring President, at St. Peter's College, at two o'clock. 

 After Luncheon, J. W. Fisher, Esq., of Lyme Regis (late of 

 Ealing), will read his Presidential Address. Then a short business 

 meeting will be held to receive the Hon. Secretary's Report and 

 for the election of President for the session 1894 — 5. 



From 3.30 to 5.30 it is proposed that the party will visit the 

 principal Colleges and other places of interest in Cambridge, and 

 at 5.30 they are invited to afternoon tea at Mr. Bryan's rooms in 

 St. Peter's College. 



We believe the visit will be a very enjoyable one for those who 

 can attend. 



Mr. C. F. Rousselet has lately published (Journ. Roy. Micro. 

 Soc, 1893, PP- 450 — 45^) ^ most valuable list of all the new 

 rotifers that have been found since the last supplement 

 to Hudson and Gosse's Rotifera in 1889. As Mr. Rousselet 

 truly remarks, there is no doubt that the publication of that 

 splendid monograph has given an immensely stimulating effect to 

 workers on these beautiful organisms. He enumerates 186 new 

 species, but thinks it probable that some of these have been 

 named twice over. In looking through the bibliography which 

 he appends, it would appear that there are few observers of 

 rotifers to be found in France, Italy, and Spain. It seems also 

 that our friends in America do not pay much attention to them, 

 as we only notice two observers in the list. Perhaps this is 

 an error on our part, but we should have imagined that there are 

 many undescribed forms in the ponds and ditches of those 

 countries. 



Our contemporary, Nature (xlviii., p. 297), has the following 

 note apropos of the Owen Memorial Fund : — 



"When it was resolved last January ' That it is desirable that 

 the eminent services of the late Sir Richard Owen in the advance- 

 ment of the knowledge of the sciences of anatomy, zoology, and 

 palaeontology should be commemorated by some suitable memo- 

 rial,' it was confidently expected that there would be a generous 

 response to the appeal for funds. A large number of circulars 

 were sent outj yet the list published in June contains the names of 



