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further directed tliat his body should be cremated ; but that, if 

 cremation were impossible, burial should take place " with 

 plainness and privacy .... at a cost not exceeding £10." 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linneau Society on 6th xipril, 



1882. 



!SiE Samuel Wilson", Kut., was a man greatly interested in 

 science, and one of the pioneers in the scientific advancement of 

 Australasia, he having presented the sum of £30,000 to the 

 Melbourne University in the year 1875. 



He was in 1878 elected a Life Member of the Royal Society of 

 Victoria. He was Vice-President of the Melbourne International 

 Exhibition of 1880, and a Royal Commissioner for the fisheries 

 Exbibition. 



He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 4th 

 December, 1879, and died 11th June, 1895, aged 63. 



June 18th, 1896. 



Dr. Gdnthee, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of tbe Anniversary Meeting, 4th June, were read 

 and confirmed. 



Dr. Robert Barnes was elected a Fellow, and Messrs. Frederick 

 Chapman and Charles Henry Wright Associates of the Society. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited a series of lantern-slides illus- 

 trating new forms of reproduction in pelagic Diatoms, the result 

 of observations made by bim while on a cruise round the coasts 

 of Scotland in March and April last, on behalf of the Fishery 

 Board for Scotland. The first slide was a reproduction of a figure 

 by Prof. Cleve oi Siddulphia aurita, showing a jonng Bidduljjhia 

 ■within the mother-cell. A similar state of things was known in 

 other diatiims (e. g. Biddulpliia leevis and Navicula scotica, as 

 Mr. Comber informed him), where new valves are formed within 

 old ones in nests of two or three. The second slide was of Bid- 

 dulphia moMliensis, as observed by himself and not only showed 

 a young Biddulpliia w'ithout spines or external markings within 

 an old one, but a still earlier stage exhibiting the contraction and 

 rounding oft' of the cell-contents uf the mother-cell. On the 

 same slide a rounding ofi' was seen in the cell-coutents oiDitylum 

 Brightivellii. Other slides showed a valve of Coscijiodiscus 

 concinnus with a new diatom within it, and, what carried matters 

 a stage farther, a valve with a pair of new diatoms ; the same 

 species with cell-contents divided into eight and into sixteen 

 rounded-ofi" portions ; and free packets of eight and of sixteen 

 young diatoms held together by a fine membrane, as they had 

 doubtless escaped from a parent cell. Mr. Murray had observed 

 numerous states which might or might not be intermediate 



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