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amples could be found in all oak-growing districts. People seemed to 
forget that it was not the mistletoe, but the oak-growing mistletoe, 
which was reverenced, and which, from its comparative rarity, was 
held sacred and searched for with great care. The greater portion of 
mistletoe sold at Christmas, came from the Channel Islands and 
France, where its berries were produced much earlier than in England. 
While it grew on a great number of trees, the apple, crab, poplar, and 
ash were the most common. 
Mr G. Scorr mentioned that he had seen it on the laburnum. 
Mr. Sewett had seen it growing on fuschia trees in Jersey. One 
example of an internal parasite was the Sarcina Ventriculi, 
The meeting then became a Conversazione, when Dr. Hallifax, 
Messrs. R. Glaisyer, Sewell, and Wonfor exhibited male flowers of 
mistletoe containing pollen, sections of the seed, leaf, stem, and of 
mistletoe and crab growing side by side, and caterpillar fungus, the 
potato fungus obtained in the autumn of 1865, and other interesting 
examples of parasitic plants. 
Mr. Wonror exhibited a very ingenious slide for opaque objects, 
consisting of a thin wooden slide with circular cell turned and blackened, 
and having two shallow grooves around, one for the covering glass 
and another for a circle of gummed paper to fasten the latter. He 
had obtained them from Mr, Baker, of Holborn, who supplied a dozen 
slides, with covers and patches to match, at 1s 6d per dozen, 
FEBRUARY. 
ORDINARY MEETING.—DR. ADDISON, F.R.S., ON THE 
NATURAL HISTORY OF CURES AND HEALING. 
—PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO MR. 
ONIONS. 
Dr. ADDISON remarked that healing would be treated as a depart- 
ment of Natural History. The human body was a self-repairing 
structure. The wheels of a watch or of a locomotive must be stopped 
