10 JOURNAL OF THE [January, 



These spores are ornamented with prominent ridges, forming 

 pentagons and appearing at the contour of the spore like the 

 cogs of a gear-wheel. U.. Austro-Americana affects the fruit, 

 stems and leaves of the host. It sometimes causes the whole 

 spike of the host to become a red, hardened, distorted, 

 varnished mass. The spores are spherical, have the surface 

 furnished with delicate spines, and ooze out in tendrils, which 

 latter are sometimes one-half of an inch in length. This last 

 species was described by Spegazzini, of the Argentine Repub- 

 lic, and-was not reported from our Eastern States until these 

 specimens were collected in i8S8. Both species were abundant 

 at Flatbush, L. I., in that year, but they have been compara- 

 tively scarce during this year. 



Mr. Leggett said that his exhibit of the foot of the beetle 

 Chrysochu^ auratus, showed how the insect is able to walk 

 inverted upon glass. The foot looks like a hair-brush, being 

 furnished with numerous hairs, which are evidently provided at 

 the end with a sucker. 



Meeting of October i8th, 1889. 



In the absence of the President and the Vice-President, Mr. 

 William Wales was elected President //v tern. 



Twenty-nine persons present. 



Mr. J. Beaumont was elected a Corresponding Member, and 

 Messrs. Henry F. Crosby and Bashford Dean were elected 

 resident members of the Society. 



Mr. E. A. Schultze read a Paper, which was an abstract and a 

 translation from an article by Dr. John af Klercker, in Zeifs- 

 chrift fur Wisscnschaftliche Mikroskopie, vi., 2, p. 167 (1889), 

 entitled " On cultivating living organisms under the Micro- 

 scope." This Paper was illustrated by black-board sketches, 

 and is published in this number of the Journal, p. 6. 



Mr. Schultze also gave an abstract and translation of an 

 article by Dr. S. Apathy, in the same number of the same pub- 

 lication, p. 171, as follows : 



" A NEW CEMENT FOR GLYCERINE MOUNTS. 



" In using asphaltum with glycerine mounts, it is preferable, 

 and in most cases necessary, to first prepare a wax cell, which 

 is afterwards covered with the cement, especially if the object 



