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which it worked was so great that an ordinary live box was used, the 
cover of which was of ordinary thin glass. The same objects were 
also shown with a Gundlach’s one-sixteenth, which gave very good 
definition. 
Mr. Wownror exhibited sections of the Morel, showing the spores 
in their receptacles ; sections of coal fossils, by Norman, of City-road, 
London ; sections of coal, made by Mr. Slade, and described in the 
January part of the Quekett Club Journal, and a series of sections 
of coal and lignite, made by himself, in which not only woody fibre 
but also spores and sporangia were distinctly made out ; these were in 
illustration of his paper on Coal, read at the last ordinary meeting. 
In the course of the evening, Mr. Wonfor illustrated his method 
of making and mounting sections of coal, which was a modification of 
the publishec methods. 
May 117TH. 
ORDINARY MEETING—“AN EVENING FOR THE 
EXHIBITION OF SPECIMENS.” 
The Rev. J. H. Cross exhibited and presented for the Society’s 
Album sketches he had made on the occasion of the Field Excursion 
to Barcombe. 
Mr, J. Dennant exhibited a series of marbles from the Pyren- 
nees and large acorn cups of the Smyrna oak (Quercus Gigyolops), the 
Valonia of commerce. 
Mr. J. Howett exhibited fossil silurian corals, vertebra of Plesio- 
saurus, from the Bone Bed of Aust, and shells from the Lias at Bristol 
and the Upper Eocene, Isle of Wight. 
Mr. Saunpers exhibited red organ coral, and other recent corals ; 
pottery from the Tombs at Bengazi and Pompeii; and sands from the 
bays of Valentia, Malta, and Taranaki. 
Mr. Etpuick exhibited a couple of piebald mice, taken from a 
rick, and supposed to be a cross between the common and white mouse. 
