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couiposed of the same minute globules ai-rauged iii concentric rings. 

 The serum of the blood of the lower animals also seemed to him to 

 be filled with minute very transpai-ent globules, but those in human 

 serum were not always so easily detected. The pus and mucus 

 corpuscles were also described as consisting of agglomerations of 

 similar minute globules. The casein globules were also described. 



The author stated that his observations had been made with a 

 very excellent common compound microscope, but that he had veri- 

 fied every observation by means of ci-ystal lenses of high power, 

 simple globules of crystal, a garnet lens, with a magnifying power of 

 1000 diameters, and a Wollaston's doublet, adapted to the micro- 

 scope. 



2. On the Parasitic Fungi found growing on the Bodies of 

 Living Animals. By John Hughes Bennett, M. D. Com- 

 municated by Dr Graham. Part 1. See Proceedings of 

 the next Meeting. 



The following Donations were presented to the Society since 

 last Meeting. 



Ordnance Survey of the County of Wexford in Ireland. 56 sheets. 



— By his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Nos. 10, 11, and 12. 

 Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Vol. xviii. part 4. 



— By the Society. 



Monday, 1th February. 



Sir T. M. BRISBANE, Bart., President, in the Cliair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. On the Parasitic Fungi found growing on the Bodies of 

 Living Animals. By John Hughes Bennett, M. D. Com- 

 municated by Dr Graham. Part 2. 



The author's object was, \st. To confirm and extend the investi- 

 gations of Gruby concerning the mycodermatous vegetations growing 

 in the crusts of the cutaneous disease called Porrigo lupinosa ; — 2c?, 

 To describe a plant he had himself found growing on the living mem- 

 brane and tubercular matter of Phthisis puhnonalis ; — 3c?, To de- 

 scribe the structux'e of a plant found infesting the skin and gills of 



