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pleased with the beauty of certain injected preparations, as 

 brought out by the binocular, such as the eyes of small ani- 

 mals, displaying the ckar eyeball, with lenses, cornea, and 

 retina; the smallest blood vessels were seen to be filled with a 

 bright red and transparent injected fluid — in situ — distinctly to 

 be traced and distinguished from each other, instead of appear- 

 ing as with the single microscope, a tangled mass, all in the 

 same plane. These instruments and objects strongly mark 

 the rapid advance microscopy is making in the present day. 



Mr. Hardman presented a number of dissecting needles, 

 with turned handles, which were thankfully accepted by the 

 members. 



Mr. Brothers exhibited Melicerta and other infusoria from 

 his aquaria. 



