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Mr. Haselwood observed that he had brought some forms of 

 life from Hay ward's Heath. From the same place he had carried 

 away some newts, but they had unfortunately died. 



The Meeting then resolved itself into a microscopical one, at 

 which were exhibited, in addition to the objects already mentioned by 

 the Members, the following :— 



Mr. Dennant, the President, diatoms and desmids from the 

 Shoreham marshes ; 



Mr. Haselwood, a cadis worm and some daphnia ; 



Mr. PUTTICK, Cyclops, rotiferas, and minute plants ; 



Mr. R. Glaisyer, water fleas and wheel bearing animalcuse. 



October 14th. 



ORDINARY MEETING.— MR. T. W. WONFOR 



ON "MANNA." 



" In the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when 

 the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness 

 there lay a small round thing as small as the hoar frost on the ground. 

 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another. It 

 is Mamiaj for they wist not what it was." Over this word manna, 

 and what it was, there had been great differences of opinion. He 

 did not purpose entering into any question of a controversial character, 

 nor yet to raise any doubt respecting the miraculous production of 

 food for the Israelites during their wanderings in the desert ; but to 

 indicate first what natural productions had at different times been 

 considered to approach in resemblance the nearest to the Scripture 

 food, and then to show that even now a substance was found, a 

 natural growth, which corresponded with the description given in the 

 Mosaic account. 



But first there was a difference of opinion in regard to the term 

 Manna J some asserted that, as the word 7nan means " what is it ?" it 

 derived its name from the exclamation of surprise uttered when the 

 substance was first seen. It has been urged against this derivation 

 that the use of the term Manna in the New Testament as a substance 



