88 Proceedings. 



MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 

 SECTION. 



Ordinary Meeting, January i6th, 1888. 



Professor W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., President of the 

 Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Leach was elected an associate of the Section. 



Mr. H. Hyde exhibited the following uncommon plants : 

 Cainelina sativa ; Neslia paniculata ; Saponaria vaccaria ; 

 Silene dichotoma ; and Salvia verticillata ; all found on a 

 refuse heap on the canal bank at BoUington, Cheshire, in 

 1886; also Lepidmm latifoliiun, found on the site of the 

 new museum, South Kensington ; and Galinsogea parviflora, 

 which grows abundantly about Kew. 



Mr. P. Cameron exhibited a new species of PJiyllotorna, 

 from Norwich, which he proposes to name PJiyllotoina 

 fitmipennisy Cameron. It comes nearest to the poplar leaf- 

 miner Phyllotoma ochropoda, but is very distinct from it in 

 the colour of the tegular, legs, and wings, and in the form 

 of the head. 



Dr. Alex. Hodgkinson gave a communication on the 

 effects of diamond cuts on glass. 



The President described some anomalous cellular 

 structures developed within the vascular cellular tissues of 

 some of the plants of the Coal measures. 



Mr. W. L. Torrance exhibited a series of photographs 

 from Java. 



