1s92.] new-york microscopical society. 35 



Meeting of October i6th, 1891. 



The Vice-President, Mr. J. D. Hyatt, in the chair. 



Twenty-eighu persons present. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the donation to the 

 Society of seventy-five slides of diatoms by Mr, Henry C. Ben- 

 nett, prepared by him and accompanied by the following com- 

 munication : 



" I prepared the slides from cleaned material obtained from 

 abroad, and they comprise deposits from districts that have 

 received much attention from diatomists, and which have been 

 described in scientific publications. The cleaned diatomaceous 

 material I obtained from M. J. Tempere, 168 Rue St. Antoine^ 

 Paris, France, who at intervals of about three months issues a 

 series of twelve tubes of cleaned diatoms in liquid, each tube 

 holding about one-half of a drachm." 



OBJECTS exhibited. 



1-4. Four new forms of aquatic animal life from the Morris 

 and Essex Canal, N. J.: by Stephen Helm. 



5. Bacillaria paradoxa, living, from the Morris and Essex 

 Canal: by James Walker. 



6. The Worker Ant, Myrmica scabrinodis Nyl.: by J. L. 

 Zabriskie. 



7. Sting of Wasp, with air in the longitudinal canal of one 

 lance, showing branches of the canal to the barbs : by J. Dv 

 Mallonee. 



Meeting of November 6th, 1891. 



The Vice-President, Mr. J. D. Hyatt, in the chair. 



Thirty-three persons present. 



Dr. J. A. Gottlieb was elected a resident member. 



The following persons were appointed by the chair Committee 

 on Annual Reception : Anthony Woodward, Dr. Edward G. 

 Love, and Charles S. Shultz. 



OBJECTS exhibited. 



1, Cordylophora lacustris: by H. Calef. 



2. Transverse sections of Antennae of House-fly, Muscca 



