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The following letter, in accordance with the resolution of the 
meeting, was sent to the Town Clerk :— 
(COPY.) 
“56, Middle Street, Brighton, 
“27th January, 1874. 
“ DEAR SIR, -We are in receipt of your letter of the 8th instant, . 
in which you state that, in answer to the application of the Brighton 
and Sussex Natural History Society, you are instructed by the Town 
Council to offer to the Society the use of the Curator’s Room at the 
New Free Library for their fortnightly meetings, and for placing 
therein book cases and contents upon the condition that the books 
shall be under the charge of the Curator, and be available for 
reference by the public in the same way as the other works in the 
Free Library, but reserving to members of the Society their right as at 
present of borrowing any of the books so to be deposited. In reply 
thereto, we beg to inform you that we are instructed by the Committee 
of Management of the Society to accept the offer upon the above 
terms, and, at the same time, to request you to be good enough to 
convey to the Town Council the thanks of the Society for the manner 
in which their application has been responded to. 
“It is, of course, understood that the books and book-cases will 
still remain the property of the Society. 
“ We are, dear Sir 
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“Yours truly, 
“T, W. WONFOR, i ls 
“JNO. COLBATCH ONIONS, § *-°™ © 
“The Town Clerk of Brighton.” 
JANUARY 22ND. 
MICROSCOPICAL MEETING.—MOUNTING IN GLYCE- 
RINE JELLY, PRACTICALLY ILLUSTRATED BY 
MR. T. W. WONFOR. 
While Canada Balsam was one of the best media, as far 
as permanence and ease of working were concerned, it possessed 
the disadvantage that all objects, and especially fresh pre- 
parations, or those containing water, could not be mounted in it, 
though, in many cases, steeping some objects in absolute alcohol 
deprived them of the water and enabled the microscopist to mount 
them in Balsam. 
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