cvi Proceedings, 



City of London Science Society, 2nd and 3rd reports. East Kent 

 Natural History Society: Thirtieth Annual Eeport. Manchester 

 Microscopical Society : Report for 1887. Middlesex Natural History 

 Club : Transactions. Northamptonshire Natural History Society : 

 Journal. Eoyal Microscopical Society : Journal. 



From Proprietors. — Essex Naturalist ; Le Moniteur de Practicien ; 

 Science Gossip. 



Exhibits, 1888. 



Feb. 8th. — Eev. George Bailey, Series of 70 mounted specimens of 

 organisms from hollow flints, collected near Down. J. Epps, A 

 "Walnut-bug." E.Gill, Xanthidia in flint, under microscope. W. 

 Goodman, Flints containing organic remains. W. Murton Holmes, 

 Fossil teeth of extinct shark. Seed-vessels of Star Anise. E. Lovett, 

 Eadiolaria taken in the ' Challenger ' Expedition. 70 slides of various 

 Foraminifera. Series of hoUow flints. Nodule of iron pyrites in flint. 

 K. McKean, Sponge spicules from hollow flints. 



March 14Lth. — Dr. Alfred Carpenter, Natural cheese from the stomach 

 of a calf. Curious growth of potato. J. Goodman, Series of British 

 land-shells. E. Lovett, Series oi Helix aspers a and Helix pomatia. 

 Triton polyphemus from South Pacific. K. McKean, Diagrams and 

 shells to illustrate his paper " Helix aspersa, considered as a type of 

 the land Gasteropoda." BuUmus GoodalUi. Branchial sac and 

 pulmonary vein oi Helix aspersa (under microscope). H. T. MenueU, 

 Series of shells of Helix aspersa. Palate of Dentalium (under micro- 

 scope). 



April 11th. — Special exhibition of microscopic objects under the 

 auspices of the Microscopical Sub-Committee, namely : — By John 

 Berney, Section of root of screw pine. P. Crowley, Type-slides of the 

 Diatomaceae. J. Epps, Leaf-scales. W. M. Gibson, Vorticellse. 

 E. Gill, Fungi. C. H. Goodman, Entomological micro-forms. H. 

 Greenway, Vai-ious botanical slides. J. Gregory, Petals and pollen of 

 Correa cardinalis. W. M. Holmes, Sections of animal tissues, &c. 

 C. H. Lanfear, Hair of pupa of the Goat Moth. T. M. Loftus, Fila- 

 mentous Algse. E. Lovett, Slides illustrative of the embryology of 

 Fishes, Crustaceans, Echinoderms, and MoUusca. M. E. Lownds, 

 Diatomaceae. K. McKean, Sections of the shells of Mollusca. H. T. 

 Mennell, Diatomaceae and deep-sea organisms. C. H. Oakley, Para- 

 site of Seal. W. Low Sarjeant, Circulation in Vallisneria spiralis. 

 3. E. Syms, Blood corpuscles of various animals. H, Turner, Section 

 of hair from tail of Elephant. 



May 9th. — P. Crowley, Specimen of granite containing a fine cross- 

 turn of felspar. German work" on British Lepidoptera. E. Lovett, 

 Specimens of Chalk, &c., to illustrate his report on the well sunk by the 

 Corporation of Croydon at Hares Bank, Addington. H. T. Meunell, 

 Fossils from the Park Hill cutting. E. Straker, Morell fungus (pro- 

 bably edible). 



Sept. 12th. — E. Lovett, The rare crustacean, Dromia vulgaris. 

 Spider-crab (Maia squinado) with abnormal growth of primary feet. 

 K. McKean, Pupa marginata, a dentate form of the variety Albina 

 from Cleeve, Somersetshire. H. T. Mennell, Paraguayan Tea, or 

 Yerba Mate (Ilex Paraguanensis), and gourd from which it is drunk. 



Oct. IQth. — J. Epps, Nests of the tree-wasp. H, Greenway, Home- 



