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niOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



SIiCROSCopiCAL Society, 



January 8th, 1862. 



R. J. Farrants, Esq., in the Chair. 



H. J. Slack, Esq., J. P. Cedlake, Esq., George Reade, Esq., 

 J. W. W. Hewitt, Esq., M. C. Hardy, Esq., and F. Bunting, Esq., 

 were balloted for and duly elected members of the Society. 



A short notice was read " On tl)e Vegetable Structure to be ob- 

 served in Common Household Coal," by J. T. Tupbolme, Esq. The 

 author commenced by observing that he failed in getting satisfac- 

 tory sections of coal by grinding, but recommends heating a mass 

 of coal on a slow tire, and tddng slices with a razor from the sur- 

 faces exposed on breaking it up. He then proceeded to describe 

 some pitted or dotted tissues, appari-ntly identical with those figured 

 by Witham (Tab. xi, fig. G, 7), and considered they are similar to 

 the structure shown by Cycas rcvoluta. He finds that Pjnxtou 

 coal gives both scalariform and pitted ducts; Clay Cross chiefly 

 scalariform ; the Derbyshire well-defined vascular tissue. 



The following papers were read: — "On some new Species of 

 Diatomaccee," by Dr. Greville ('Trans.,' p. 41) ; " Some Account of 

 the Martin Microscope," by Jlr. J. Vrilliams ('Trans.,' p. 31.) 



February \'2th, 18G2. 

 Annual ?ai;KTiNG . 

 R. J. Farrakts, Esq., President, in the Chair. 

 Tlie President announced that William Peters, Esq., had pre- 



