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The thanks of the Society arc also due to those 

 gentlemen who have read Papers, and also to those 

 who have exhibited Microscopes and Specimens ; 

 and your Commtttee earnestly request the Members 

 to give their assistance to the Society by reading 

 Papers and exhibiting objects of interest. 



In consideration of the great increase in the 

 value of the Society's Library, the books in which 

 are estimated to be worth nearly £300, the Com- 

 mittee recommend that the entrance fee be lOs. 

 instead of 5s., as heretofore. 



The following are the subjects which have been 

 introduced : — 



1866. 



Sept. A Microscopical Meeting, at which the chief 

 objects exliibited were by Messrs. Smith and 

 Sewell, who showed injections ; Mr Cooper, 

 cii'culation in frog's foot ; Dr. Hallifax, 

 sections of eyes of insects, in which the 

 several layers of the cornea and the nerves 

 proceeding to the optic nerve were displayed ; 

 Mr Gwatldn, diatoms from guano and fora- 

 minifer^e, from chalk, and the post Pleoceue, 

 Niocene, and Eocene formations ; Mr Wonfor, 

 Oak Spangles and Coccus producing them, 

 parasites of water rat, larvse of crab, seeds 

 of ragged robin, &c. 



