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MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 



January 21st, 1862. 



Professor Willi amson. President of the Section^ 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. William K. Deane was elected a Member of the 

 Section. 



A letter was read from Mr. H. A. Hurst, late of Calcutta, 

 making a donation to the Section of his entire collection of 

 mounte 1 microscopical objects, consisting of upwards of four 

 hundred specimens ; they comprise 90 slides of diatomacese ; 

 100 of algse, mostly marine ; about 30 different kinds of 

 starches, and the remainder an assortment of Desmidiae, 

 preparations of insects, bone sections, and a variety of other 

 objects. 



Mr. Hurst also presented a collection of specimens of 

 Asiatic woods, in small blocks, obtained from the Horti- 

 Agricultural Society of India at Calcutta. They consist of 

 98 specimens from Arracan ; 76 from Upper Assam ; 6 from 

 Central India; 8 from the coast of Tenasserin ; and 13 from 

 Chittagong; 201 specimens of woods in all, most of them 

 with the native names. 



Capt. Penrice, of the ship ''Pegasus'' from Shanghae, 

 forwarded to the Section a number of soundings taken during 

 his last voyage, amongst which may be noted one each from 

 the mouth of the Yang-tse-Kiang river in China, coast of 

 Borneo, Java ; and a portion of mud, rich in foraminiferse, 

 from the anchor fluke, at Gaspar Island, 



