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February 11th, 1884. 



Alfred Brothers, F.RA.S., Vice-President of the Section, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Hyde described a method of preparing for educa- 

 tional purposes the various parts of trees, and exhibited 

 preparations of the sycamore, beech, and oak mounted in 

 this way. 



Mr. Rogers exhibited specimens of Amblystegum Por- 

 phyrrhizum, Lin., collected on the sandhills at Southport in 

 1875. It is a continental species, this being the first occa- 

 sion on which it has been found in England. 



(Dn the suggestion of Mr. Brothers it was resolved that 

 the next meeting should be a working evening, and devoted 

 to investigating some of the contents of the cabinets belong- 

 ing to the Section. 



March 10th, 1884. 



J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President of the 

 Section, in the Chair. 



Messrs. J. Boyd and Theodore Sington' were nominated 

 by the President to audit the accounts of the Section. 



Mr. Brothers exhibited two Photographs of Histological 

 preparations, taken by him in the Physiological Laboratory 

 of the Owens College, by the Electric Light, one with a 

 Zeiss, the other with a Smith and Beck objective. 



