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men were enabled to take from the body pieces of diseased skin, 

 so that they might study the various foi'ms of skin disease. 



Dr. Hallifax next exhibited a saucer arranged to facilitate 

 the placing of cuttings on slides. Very thin sections, if placed 

 in water, and the slides placed under them and then raised, rai-ely 

 retained the desired position. To obviate this he had a small hole 

 drilled in the bottom of the saucer, which was tightly fitted with a 

 slip of wood. After the object had been floated into its right 

 position, the plug Avas removed, and the water, running gently 

 away, left the section in its proper place. The di'illed hole should 

 not, however, be too large, otherwise a current would be formed 

 and destro)' the eifect of its operation. 



At the conclusion of the meeting, the Chairman announced 

 that the next microscopical meeting was the last of the series this 

 yeai', and it was hoped that they would have a microscopical 

 conversazione, and that members would bring with them the 

 choicest specimens of their collection. 



November 12th. 



ORDINARY MEETING. -" ON RECENT EXCAVATIONS 

 AT CISSBURY," BY MR. ERNEST WILLETT. 



Mr. Wonfor had informed them that excavations had been made 

 at Cissbury during the past summer : indeed, several of the members 

 had themselves visited the spot; and, on the understanding that a 

 more detailed account would not be unacceptable to the Brighton 

 and Sussex Natural History Society, he had arranged a few notes 

 on the subject into the form of a paper, for the defects and shoi-t- 

 comings of which he must ask their indulgence. Had the site of 

 the work been other than at Cissbury, it would have been desirable 

 to have preceded the paper with a description of the locality and 

 situation of the earthwoi'k, but the spot must be so familiar to 

 every Sussex man who was interested in ethnology, and the camp 

 had been so frequently desci-ibed that, in the absence of fresh 

 information bearing on the subject, it would be inexpedient to 



