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The Committee on Annual Exhibition presented its report, the 

 report was adopted, and the committee was discharged with 

 thanks. 



On motion the thanks of the Society were tendered to those 

 who, although not members of the Society, exhibited specimens 

 and apparatus at the late Annual Exhibition. 



On motion the thanks of the Society were tendered President 

 Morris K. Jesup and the members of the Board of Trustees of 

 the American Museum of Natural History for their kindness in 

 granting the use of the halls of the Museum, and to Mr. William 

 Wallace, superintendent of the buildings, and his assistants, for 

 their kind offices on the occasion of the late Annual Exhibition. 



Dr. Edw. G. Love read a paper entitled " Notes on the Stain- 

 ing of Cellulose." This paper, published in this number of the 

 Journal, was illustrated by the exhibition of many bottles of 

 stains ; by many macroscopic samples of stained fibres (see con- 

 clusion of the published article) ; and by eight slides of mounted 

 ''icuned fibres under microscopes, as noted below. 



OBJECTS EXHIBITED. 



r. Linen fibre ; stained, acetate of alumina and logwood. 



2. Linen fibre ; stained ; mordant, tannic acid and stannate 

 of soda ; stains, fuchsin, Paris violet, and methyl green. 



3. Cotton fibre ; stained, acetate of copper and logwood. 



4. Cotton fibre ; stained, acetate of alumina and brazilwood. 



5. Cotton fibre ; stained; mordant, tannic acid and stannate of 

 soda ; stains, fuchsin, Paris violet, and methyl green. 



6. Cotton fabric, Turkey red. 



7. Wool, silk, cotton and linen ; mordant, tannic acid and 

 stannate of soda ; stains, fuchsin, Paris violet, and methyl green, 



8. Poplar fibre ; stained, acetate of copper and logwood. Ex- 

 hibits Nos. 1-8 by Edw. G. Love, 



9. Living colony of Megalotrocha: by James Walker. 



10. Living colony of Melicerta rlngens : by James Walker. 

 Mr, Walker stated that the water and mud supplying the colony 



of Melicerta were collected six weeks since and were placed in 

 glass battery jars. The water of this particular jar was changed 

 after four days. He lately found fifty colonies of Melicerta at- 

 tached to the sides of the jar ; but four days previously he could 



