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Objects Exhibited with Notes. 



January 6th, 1899. 



Mr. A. W. Dennis : Specimens of Leocarims vernkosus found 

 at Hinx Hill, Kent. 



Mr. A. E. Hilton: The sporangia of Arcyria inmicea^ showing 

 the capillitium after the dispersion of the spores. 



Mr. H. Morland : The frustiile and valves of Navicula rcpcina 

 (Cleve) found by Mr. A. Durrand, a member of the Club, in the 

 Island of Eiyo, near Singapore. Tliis diatom was originally 

 named Scoliojileura contorta, Kitton MS., then Pinnidaria rceana 

 Castr. (Challenger Reports), and lastly Navicula rceana, Cleve. 



Mr. A. Earland : A type-slide showing sixty species of the 

 genus Lagena. 



Mr. G. T. Harris : A preparation of Hydra vulgaris showing 

 the ovaries and testes, stained with Mayer's Para -carmine. The 

 specimen, wdth the generative organs well developed, was found 

 in an aquarium in December last. 



Mr. B. W. Priest : A colony of Anguinaria spatula, attached 

 to seaweed from Australia. This same Polyzoon occurs on the 

 British coasts, generally found on Fucus, but it is much smaller 

 in size. 



Mr. J. Holder : The statoblasts of Loplioims crystallinus. 



January 20th, 1899. 



Mr. A. Earland : A new and undescribed form of Lagena from 

 the Miocene of Mt. Martha, Melbourne, Australia. Character- 

 istic features : Basal half roughly covered with minute prickles ;, 

 oral half glassy, with fine longitudinal striae. Ento-ecto-solenian. 

 The nearest relative is Lagena ampulla-distoma of Bymer Jones,, 

 which is covered, more or less, uniformly all over with a similar 

 rough surface. 



Mr. G. T. Harris : A preparation of Nais lacustris ( = Stylaria 

 Xjrohoscidea) showing a young form just budded oft' from its^ 



