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ing portion of capillary broken off from tbo circulation 

 and enclosing blood-corpuscles. 



(3) From mesentery of rat dead of old age and starvation. Show- 



ing loop of blood-vessel about to separate, and enclosing 

 blood-corpuscles. 



(4) From hroad Ugnment of rat dead of old age. Showing con- 



traction and thickening of walls of smaller blood-vessels. 



(5) From hroad ligament of pregnant mouse. Formation of new 



capillary loop ; the already-fornjed loop is being joined 

 at both ends to the circulation. 



(6) From hroad ligament of pregnant mouse. Showing typical 



forms of splicing or cell-junction with strengthening- 

 cell placed against the original joint in developing 

 capillary. 

 Mr. E. T. Newton : — Improved Microtome. 



New Fellows. — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : — 

 Messrs. W. Carruthers, F.R.S., G. Devron, M.D., D. W. Greenhough, 

 J. C. Havers, W. A. Eogers, E. M. Stone, and H. Woodward, 

 LL.D., F.R.S. 



Scientific Evening. 



The second Scientific Evening of the Session was held in the 

 Libraries of King's College, on the evening of Wednesday the 21st 

 April, 1880, and was very numerously attended, nearly 150 Fellows 

 and Visitors being present. 



The following were the objects, &c., exhibited : — 

 Mr. Chas. Baker : 



Stephenson's binocular dissecting and other Microscopes, Parkes' 

 Microscope lamp with cooling chamber (see p. 528), Teasdale's 

 safety stage (see p. 332), improved mounting for Wenham's 

 disk-illuminator, Newton's improved microtome, &c. 

 Messrs. E. and J. Beck : 



Improved Microscope-stand with swinging substage (see p. 329). 

 Mr. W. A. Bevington : 



Griffithsia sp., from Australia. 

 Mr. Thos. Bolton : 



Medusa from the gonophore of a Marine Hydrozoon, Ohelia dicho- 

 toma, perch spawn and young fry, Asplanchna Brightwellii, &c. 

 Mr. Thos. Curties : 



Zeiss' objective adjusting 2" to 4", flea of ferret with Hippopus 

 (Acarcllus) pulicis. 

 Mr. W. G. Cocks : 



A form of Epistylis with a number of Acinetce attached (see p. 470) ; 

 a gigantic Floscule. 

 Mr. A. C.Cole : 



A set of Mr. Shrubsole's diatoms from the London clay. 



