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Mr. T. A. O'Donohoe : Blood of Newt, showing kaiyokinesis (?) 

 in a red corpuscle. 



Mr. A. Ear land : Dilophus sp. A Dipterous insect, with double 

 eye on each side of head. The curvature and sizes of lenses 

 differ. 



July 4th, 1902. 



Mr. T. A. O'Donohoe : Blood of child, showing many white 

 corpuscles with nuclei stained blue. Method of preparation : 

 Spread thinly on slide ; fix in saturated solution of corrosive 

 sublimate ; wash thoroughly ; stain in eosin ; immerse for three 

 or four seconds in solution of caustic soda, 1 in 10,000 ; stain in 

 methylene blue ; wash, dry thoroughly, and mount in Canada 

 balsam ; use a No. 1 cover-glass gently pressed down for 

 examination by immersion lens. 



Mr. A. Earland : Ninety-six typical species of Foraminifera to 

 illustrate the principal genera of Brady's classification. '^ Bryce 

 Scott " type slide, with air-tight sliding cover-glass. 



Mr. J. B. Scriven : Nymph of Blow-fly (female nearly mature). 

 Vertical sections. Eight slides to illustrate paper read on 

 June 20th, 1902. The specimen was first stained in bulk with 

 eosin and carmine, and finally on the slide w4th Ehrlich's logwood. 

 It was transferred direct from absolute alcohol to the imbedding 

 medium. The sections were cut with the Cambridge rocking 

 microtome, eight teeth of the regulating wheel being used, so that 

 they are (theoretically) -joVo ^^- tliick. They were afterwards 

 stretched and fixed on clean slides with warm water, without any 

 adhesive material. 



Mr. H. Morland : Amphiprwa mnuita Bailey. From old 

 furnace j^ond, Hamburg, Sussex County, New Jersey, U.S.A. 

 A fresh-water form not yet recorded in the British Isles. A 

 delicate membranous form, with twisted keel on face of valve, 

 strongly constricted in centre, and undulated pleated hoop on 

 frustule, 



July 18th, 1902. 



Mr. K. J. Marks : Tangential longitudinal section of Pinus 

 sylvestris^ showing prosenchymatous wood cells (tracheides) with 

 bordered pits and medullai-y i-ays. 



