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collected in a low piece of ground near a cemetery, suddenly 

 became covered with Eugltna sanguinea, which gave the water the 

 exact appearance of a pool of fresh blood. Some of the people 

 were greatly alarmed, and they inquired of me the cause of the 

 phenomenon. I explained it to them as clearly as I could ; 

 yet they still believe and would testify that this pool, sit- 

 uated so near the "cemetery, was for many days that summer 

 reddened with blood." 



Meeting of June iqth, 1885. 



The President, Mr. C. Van Brunt, in the chair. 



Forty-five persons present. 



Ivin Sickels, M. D., was elected an Active Member of the 

 Society. 



On motion of Mr. Mead it was voted that, when the Society 

 adjourns, it shall adjourn to meet on the first Friday of October 

 next. 



It is the Society's custom to give to its last meeting prior to 

 adjournment for the summer a partly social character. To this 

 end it makes at this meeting a larger and more miscellaneous 

 exhibition of objects than at its other regular meetings. 



OBJECTS EXHIBITED. 



1. Lacinularia socialis : by A. D. Balen. 



2. Closierium lunula : by A. D. Balen. 



3. Peridiniuni spiniferum : by C. S. Shultz. 



4. Circulation of blood in foot of Frog : by J. L. Wall. 



5. Cyclosis in Vallisneria : by Walter H. Mead. 



6. Cyclosis \n Anacharts : by James Warnock. 



7. Cyclosis in Nitella : by James Warnock. 



8. Micrococci from normal human saliva, showing chain-like 

 arrangement of cells, and illustrating reproduction by fission in 

 one direction : by Lucius Pitkin. 



9. Sarcina ventricult, showing cells in square clusters, and 

 illustrating duplicative subdivision in directions at right angles 

 to each other : by Lucius Pitkin. 



10. Cimex lectularius, showing tracheae and spiracles ; 

 bleached in hydrogen peroxide : by F. W. Leggett. 



11. Spiracles in skin of Dytiscus : by Edward G. Day. 



