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MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 



Annual Meeting, May (jth, 1872. 



Joseph Baxendell, F.R.A.R., in the Chair. 



The following Report of the Council, and Treasurer's 

 Account for the past year, were read and passed : — 



Your Council have to report that the following papers 

 have been read during the past session : 



1871. 

 Oct. 9. — " Notices of several recently discovered and undescribed 

 British Mosses." — Mr. (i. E. Hunt. 

 " Notes on Dorcatoma bovistcej^ — Mr. Joseph Side- 

 BOTHAM, F.R.A.S. 

 Nov. 6. — " On Tricophyton toiisurans.^^ — Mr. John Barrow. 

 Dec. 4. — *' The flowering of Cereus grandijlorus;.^' — Mr. R. D. 

 Darbishire, B.A., F.G.S. 

 " On the occuiTence of Xenodochus carbonariua, Schl., 



near Welshpool." — Rev. J. E. Vize, M.A. 

 " Further Notes on Tricophyton tonsitrans.'^ — Mr. John 

 Barrow. 

 1872. 

 Jan. 1 5. — " On Nemosoma elongata.'" — Mr. J. Sidebotham, F. R. A.S. 

 Feb. 5.— "The Origin and Spread of Typhus Fever."— Mr. J. 



SiDEBOTUAM, F.R.A.S. 



26. — "On Shells of MoUusca, showing Interior Traces of 

 Fungoid Growth." — Mr. Mark Stirrup. 



The number of Ordinary Members of the Section is 38, 

 and of Associates 12. 



The funds of the Society, as will be seen from the accom- 

 panying balance sheet, are in a satisfactory state. 



