38 Proceedincs. 



[Microscopical and Nixtural History Section?^ 



Ordinary Meeting, November 19, 1888. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melyill, M.A., President of the Section, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Theo. Sington exhibited an abnormal growth^ 

 or concretion of some hard substance, found outside the 

 bowels of a hen. 



Mr. P. Cameron, F.E.S., read a paper "On the British 

 species oi Allotrincs, with descriptions of other new species 

 of parasitic Cynipid(zr 



Dr. Alex. Hodgkinson showed a new form of electric 

 lamp, and explained the diffraction spectra, and the advan- 

 tage of parallel rays of light in microscopical research. 



Mr. E. Pyemont Collett exhibited a specimen of 

 Trifolinin siiffocahnn from the sandy sea shore at Hastings, 



Ordinary Meeting, November 27th, 1888. 



Professor OsBORNE Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., . 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. J. Faraday, F.L.S., gave " An historical account 

 of the spectroscopic evidence in support of the hypothesis 

 that oxygen exists in the sun, with special reference to 

 M. Janssen's recent researches on telluric oxygen and 

 aqueous vapour lines and bands," in the course of which 

 he pointed out that the two absorption spectra of Janssen, 

 obtained with oxygen in long tubes at different pressures, 



