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MICEOSCOPICAL AND NATUEAL HISTORY SECTION. 

 March 24tli, 1873. 



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

 Section, in the Chair. 



The President exhibited specimens of Calamostachys 

 Binneyana and Selaginella Wallichii. 



April 21st, 1873. 



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

 Section, in the Chair, 



Mr. Thomas Rogers was elected an Associate, and Mr. 

 James C. Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., a member of the Section. 



Mr. Hardy exhibited specimens of Veronica Buxbaumii 

 (Ten) gathered on the 14th of April, by the side of a new 

 road leading from Barlow Moor Lane to the river bank; 

 growing apparently wild. Buxton in his " Botanical Guide," 

 mentions its occurrence in a lane at Sale in 1847 ; and Mr. 

 Bailey stated that the late Dr. Windsor had met with it as 

 a garden weed at Whalley Range. Mr. H. C. Watson's 

 remark in his Compendium of the Cybele Britannica (refer- 

 ring to the British Islands generally) that this plant is "an 

 alien fast becoming a denizen," would therefore appear to 

 be strictly applicable to the Flora of the Manchester Dis- 

 trict. 



Mr. John Barrow read a paper " On the Use of Naphtha- 

 line in Section Cutting." 



I wish to bring before the notice of the members and 

 those microscopists who are interested in cutting sections of 

 soft or delicate tissues the use of Naphthaline as a support 

 for such tissues in the section cutter. 



