l894-] NEW-YORK MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 17 



PROCEEDINGS. 

 Meeting of October 6th, 1893. 



The President, Mr. Charles S. Shultz, in the chair. 



Twenty-one persons present. 



The Recording Secretary read a communication from Prof. W. 

 Goold Levison, requesting the appointment of a committee by 

 this Society to meet with committees of allied societies for the 

 purpose of conference on the adoption of a uniform size for 

 boxes, cases, and cabinets for the display and preservation of 

 microscopical and mineralogical specimens, 



Mr. James Walker was appointed as such committee. 



objects exhibited. 



1. Capsules of Canada balsam, m situ, in the bark of Abies 

 balsamea Miller: by Alfred M. Mayer. 



2. Acineta tuber osa. 



3. Bacillaria paradoxa. 



4. Megalotrocha albo-flavicans. 



5. Octocella liber tas. 



6. Urnatella walker ii. 



7. Cordylophora coronata. 



8. The form, No. i, of Plate 29 (see Journal, viii., 43). 

 Exhibits Nos. 2-8 from the water of the Morris and Essex 



Canal, New Jersey, and all by Stephen Helm. 



9. Melicerta ringens, living, and in the act of building its 

 tube: by James Walker. 



10. Flumatella s^.: by James Walker. 



11. Conochilus volvox : by James Walker. 



12. Pollen of Mallow : by Henry C. Bennett. 



13. Photomicrograph of statoblasts of Lophopus crystallinus : 

 by E. G. Love. 



14. Mexican ''Jumping Beans," Sebastiania palmeri |lose 

 ("Insect Life," iii., 431), or S. pavoniana Mull. Arg. (Bull. 

 Torr. Club, xx., 25), showing active motion : by F. D. Skeel. 



Mr. Helm remarked that specimens of his exhibit No. 7 had 

 been very scarce in the canal during the present year. They 

 had multiplied in one of his tanks during that time, but had 



