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cut on the plan recommended by Dr. Hallifax gave admirable 

 results. 



The paper was illustrated by a large collection of seeds and by 

 microscopic preparations, including sections showing the several 

 parts, made by Dr. Hallifax. 



March 10th. The President, Mr. T. H. Hennah, in the Chair. 

 The meeting was special, to receive a report of the committee on 

 the subject of forming a Microscopical Section, a summary of which 

 is appended. 



A suggestion having been made that the usefulness of the 

 Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society would be much 

 extended if increased facilities could be afforded to its members for 

 microscopical study, the committee recommended that as micro- 

 scopical examination and the use of the microscope were almost 

 indispensable to the pursuit of knowledge in natural history, it 

 appeared necessary to form a section of the society to be called the 

 "Microscopical Section," which should provide for the study of 

 subjects connected with the use of the microscope, and for the more 

 frequent intercourse of such members as were interested in micro- 

 scopical study ; that these objects could be attained by monthly 

 meetings of the section, when papers on strictly microscopical 

 subjects could be read ; such reading to be restricted to twenty 

 minutes, so that time might be afforded for the examination of 

 objects and the comparison of observations ; by the formation of a 

 cabinet, to which members be invited to contribute slides, particu- 

 larly of such objects as illustrate the natural history of Sussex — 

 members to have specimens from the cabinet for home examination, 

 under certain restrictions, and by the encouraging the exchange of 

 slides among the members. The section to consist of all members 

 of the society who signify their wish to the secretaries to join the 

 section. The government to be under the present officers of the 

 society until the annual meeting, when the committee shall suggest 

 rules for its future government ; the meetings to be held on the 

 fourth Thursday in each month, at 8 o'clock, the chair to be taken 

 by the president or a member of the committee, when, after the 

 ordinary and special business of the evening, the meeting shall 

 resolve itself into a conversazione, at which slides illustrative of the 

 subject of meeting shall have precedence of other objects of interest 

 and novelty. Before separating the subject of the next meeting 

 shall be announced. 



On the motion of Mr. Hazlewood, seconded by Mr. Wonfor, it 

 was resolved : " That the committee's report be received, approved, 

 entered on the minutes, and acted upon." 



The meeting then became general ; when a paper, by Mr, Clifton 

 Ward, F.G.S., "A Sketch of the Geological History of England so 

 far as it is at present known," was read by Mr. Wonfor, Hon. Sec, 

 in which, from the earliest dawn of the Cambrian period down to 

 the present day, the changes brought about by submersion, de- 

 position, elevation, denudation, &c., together with a description of 

 the animal and vegetable types of the various periods, were gra- 



