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while his health would permit it, he helped to keep up a microscopical 

 club. Not only was his death a great loss to this Society, but also to 

 the town at large. There was scarcely a gentleman in the town who 

 worked with his microscope but was indebted for advice, assistance, 

 and instruction to Mr. Hennah, who had been always willing and 

 ready, even though suffering from physical debility, to give information 

 to the mere tyro equally with the advanced student. All who came 

 in contact with him could bear witness to his affable and gentlemanly 

 bearing, and the genial way in which he conveyed information to 

 others. 



January 27TH. 



MICROSCOPICAL MEETING.— "THE ANATOMY OF 

 THE BEE," IN ILLUSTRATION OF MR. C. P. 

 SMITH'S PAPER ON THE BEE, READ AT THE 

 JANUARY ORDINARY MEETING. 



The President (Mr. J. Dennant) said there was no paper to be 

 read, as Mr. Smith's paper at the last meeting had almost exhausted 

 the subject, but as there was neither time no ropportunity on that occa- 

 sion to e:;amine the several parts of the bee described by Mr. Smith, 

 an opportunity would be aftbrded them that evening of so doing. He 

 believed Mr. Smith and other gentlemen had brought down a number 

 of objects of a very interesting character. 



Mr. T. W. Wonfor remarked that he had since the last meet- 

 ing examined the curious bodies in the specimen of American honey 

 shown by Mr. C. F. Dennet, and found they were crystals of honey 

 sugar. It would be seen by comparing them with crystals of cane 

 sugar how much they differed from it in their mode of crystallization. 

 He found also plenty of pollen grains in the honey, but whether they 

 were of the orange, on the flowers of which the bees were said to feed, 

 he had not had the opportunity of verifying. He had also examined 



