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an adjunct to other scientific studies, and there was not usually a sufficient 

 preliminary training in the knowledge of the principles on which the micro- 

 scope was constructed or in its manipulations, whereas there are so many 

 details to be considered and worked out carefully before the microscope 

 could be used with advantage, that a special training in Microscopy is 

 highly desirable, and he advocated courses of such study in scientific 

 colleges and schools, and for all who took up the microscope for the purpose 

 of research. 



The Rev. H. H. Higgins and Mr. E. Davies also spoke on the subject. 



At the Conversazione the following subjects were illustrated : — 



Diatomaceoe from Cuxhaven W. H. Read. 



Endings of Nerve in Muscle F. C. Larkin, M.R.C.S 



Leptodora hyalina I. C. Thompson. 



Living Diatoms T. W. Bruce. 



Recent Cabinet Slides A. Leicester. 



Sections of Oliva peruviana and Cyprsea moneta ...J. M. Williams. 



Slides illustrating Mycro-Petrology A. Norman Tate. 



Taste hud in a Rabbit's Tongue Edward Davies. 



Tongue of Cricket 1 _ „ 



^ 1-Tapley Bacon. 



Section through Gizzard of ditto J 



November 2nd. — Mr. J. Harbord Lewis, F.L.S., read the paper of the evening 

 entitled " Notes on the Desmids." 



Messrs. L C. Thompson and W. Narramore made some further remarks 

 on the subject. 



At the Conversazione the following subjects were illustrated : — 



( Anthrodesmus octocornis 1 ,„ „ 



1-W. ^.vrr.\more. 

 Do. incus J 



Closterium lunula, exhibiting cyclosis, also mole- 

 cular motion of terminal gi-anules Isaac C. Thompson. 



Cosmariura minutum G. Watson Grat. 



Euastrum verrucosum Joseph Wall. 



Micrasterias furcata Alfred Leicester. 



Do. rotata W. Oelrichs. 



Do. denticulata The President. 



j Staurastrum arctiscon J. Harbord IiEWIS. 



Do. brasiliense T. W. Bruce. 



^Xanthidium armatum A. Johnson. 



Cycloid and Ctenoid Scales J. HoRNELL. 



Human Nail (transverse section of) F. C. Larkin, M.R.C.S. 



Peziza granulata 



Spores of Asci Fungus , 



^Rev. F. Ballard, M.A. 



