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pense of the old Transactions v/itliout the Journal with the prci^ent 

 expenditure on hotli Transactions and Journal, tliat, in proportion 

 to tlie whole income of the Society, the expense was less now than it 

 was then. The large expenditure on the Journal in the accounts of last 

 year depended on some of the previous years' expenditure having hceu 

 brought into the account, as anyhody could ascertain, by calcu- 

 lating the number of Journals required by the present number of 

 members, lie hoped the Society would make no demands that the 

 proprietors of the Journal could not concede ; for one, he pro- 

 mised the Society that no efforts should be wanting on his part 

 to maintain the union of the Transactions and the Journal which 

 had hitlierto worked so satisfactorily for the advancement and pros- 

 perity of the Society. 



After some further remarks from Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Lobb, Mr. 

 Matthew Marshall, and others, it was agreed by the Society that a 

 committee should be appointed to take the subject into considera- 

 tion, and report to the next meeting of the Council. 



March [2th, 1862. 

 R. J. rAKRAXTS, Esq., President, in the Ciiair. 



Charles Reiner, Esq., J. H. Gent, Esq., George Sweet, Esq., 

 G. L. Paton, Esq., Dr. Harcourt, and Dr. liingman, were duly elected 

 members of the Society. 



A paper was read : — "On the Preservation and Mounting of Mi- 

 croscopic Objects in Tubes," by Dr. Guy ('Trans.,' p. 57). 



A Paper 



On the Scales of some Species of Thysaxouka, and more 

 especially the valve as Test Objects of those Scales 

 hitherto considered as belonginy to Podura plumbea. 

 By Richard Beck. 



The author first rJluded to tlie diversity of opinion as to 

 the appearance and the structure of the Podura scale^ and to 

 the remarkable fact, that, even to the present time, no tvro 

 authors have agreed upon the subject. After the discovery 

 of the object by Thos. Carpenter, Esq., ]\Ir. Pritchard, in 

 1832, describes the markings as an ^'aggregation of dots" 

 Avhen seen under the best single microscopes ; but in 1837, 

 Dr. Goring, by the aid of the " engiscope," proves these dots 

 to be "veritable lines." This assertion is somewhat astonish- 

 ing ; for, with our present knowledge of the correct general 



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