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Proceedings. 



MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 

 SECTION. 



Ordinary Meeting, :\Iarch I2th, 1888. 



The President, Professor W. C. Williamson, F.R.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. J. J. ASHWORTH was elected a member of the 

 section. 



Mr. Thos. Rogers showed specimens of a small beetle, 

 Niptus hololeuaiSy which had appeared in large numbers in 

 some dried peppermint. 



Mr. H. Hyde exhibited a set of plants, collected by 

 Mr. Charles West in Portugal. 



Mr. John Boyd exhibited by means of the Lantern 

 two sets of drawings. One illustrating the various changes 

 which occur in the development of Argiiliis, the other 

 showing both sexes oi AncJiorella iincinafa. 



Mr. E. Pyemont Collett exhibited a small type 

 collection of British Heminoptera-Heteroptera. 



The President showed, under the microscopes, the 

 reproductive gemmules on the roots of mosses, described at 

 the previous meeting. 



