io Proceedings. 



{Microscopical and Natural History Section.'] 



Ordinary Meeting, October 12th, 1891. 



Alexander Hodgkinson, M.B., B.Sc., President of the 

 Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. Hyde showed a number of natural history- 

 specimens mounted in glass-topped boxes to illustrate the 

 method he has adopted for preparing such objects for 

 class-teaching purposes. They are packed up to the glass 

 top with cotton wool, so that they will stand any ordinary 

 handling. Mr. T. Rogers exhibited a number of dried 

 specimens of Gentiana p7ieumonantJie collected by him 

 during the past summer near Moelfre Bay, Anglesea. 



A general conversation followed on rooks collecting 

 acorns, edible fungi, variation in the common star-fish, the 

 parasites found on the common dung-beetle, etc. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 20th, 1S91. 



Edward Schunck, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the table. 



Mr. R. F. Gwyther, M.A., called attention to a peculiar 

 shrivelling of the leaves of trees, which occurred during the 

 gales immediately following the hot weather early in 



