Vxr.K 



Construction of Eye-pieces 59 



Malpighian Vesseh of Insects 60 



Parasitic Crusiarea 61 



Improvements in Micro-photography 62 



Measure for Covering Glass 65 



Origin of the Sexual Products in Hydroids 66 



Sir Joseph Hooker on the Modern Development of Micro-botany .. .. 67 



Lichens, Bacteria, Bacillus Organisms, and the Lowest Forms of Life .. 69 



Method of representing an Object from Microscopic Sections 71 



Microscopy at the Paris Exhihition 72 



The Generation of Gas in the Protoplasm of living Protozoa 72 



Sperm-formation in Spongilla 73 



'I he exact Orientation of the principal Section of Nicols in Polarizing 



Apparatus •• 71 



Improvements in Object-glasses 75 



British A cari — Oribatidte 76 



Tlie Structure of the Nerves in the Invertebrata 76 



Development of Cephalodia on Lichens 78 



Mr. Soiby's New Micro-spectroscope 81 



The Structure of Blood-ves'^ela 82 



Borings of a Sponge in Marble 82 



Alcoholic Fermentation 82 



Dry Preparations of Diatoms, &o 83 



The Organs of Attachment of Stentors 83 



A new Method <f preparing a Dissected Model of an Insect's Brain from 



Microscopic Sections S-t 



The Eelations of Ehabdopleura . . . . 84 



Formation of Ovisacs in Copepoda 85 



The Conidia of PoJyporus suJfureus, and their Development 85 



Polarizer for the Microscope 87 



New Anthozoa 87 



Parthenogenesis in Bees 88 



New Classification of the Vegetable Kingdom 90 



TIte Morphology of the Oxytrichina 91 



The Sexual Process in Diatoms 93 



Microscopical Injection of Molluscs 94 



Parasitism amongst Infusoria 94 



Microscopy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science .. 95 



Germination of the Spores of Volvox dioicus ^95 



Parasitism of a Coral on a Sponge 9S 



BiBLIOGBAPHY ,. .. ,. .. .. .. .. .. 97 



Pkoceedings of the Society .. .. .. .. .. •• 105 



Meetings of the Society. 



1879. 

 Wednesday, February 12. 

 „ March 12. 



„ April 9. 



„ May 14. 



1879. 

 Wednesday, June 11. 

 „ October 8. 



„ November 12. 



„ December 10. 



