PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



June 29th, 1859. 

 Dr. Lankester, President, in the chair. 



Henry Judd, Esq., Alfred Canton, Esq., Dr. Prendergast, 

 Henry Yool, Esq., H. A. Silver, Esq., E. C. Anderson, Esq., 

 and the Duke of Manchester were balloted for, and duly 

 elected members of the Society. 



A paper " On a Section and a Mounting Instrument," by 

 Mr. James Smith, was read (p. 1). 



A paper by G. F. Pollock, Esq., " On Granulated Blood- 

 discs/' was read (p. 4). 



The meetings of the Society were then adjourned until 

 October next. 



The following publications, &c, have been presented to 

 the Microscopical Society since the publication of the last 

 Journal. 



March 31st, 1859. 



Observations on the Genus Unio. By Isaac Lea 

 Description of Twenty-seven New Species of Unioues. 



By Isaac Lea .... 



Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. XV, Part 1 . 

 Address of the President of the Geological Society, 



Major- General Portlock 

 Linnean Society. Supplement to Botany, No. 1 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 



Philadelphia. Several Parts 



April. — No Meeting. 

 May TM. 

 Musci Alleghanienses sive Spicilegire Muscorum atque 



Hepaticarum quos in itinere aMarylandia usque ad 



Georgiam. By W. S. Sullivant. 2 vols. 1845 . 

 The Mosses of the United States. By W. S. Sullivant. 



1856 ..... 

 Contributions to the Bryology and Hepaticology of 



North America. Two Parts. 1819. By W. S. 



Sullivant ..... 

 Report on the Botauy of the Expedition for a Rail- 

 road Route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific 



Ocean. By W. S. Suilivant. 1856 

 Notices of some New Species of Mosses from the 



Pacific Islands. By W. S. Sullivant. 1856 

 Musci Boreali Americani quorum specimina exsiccata. 



By W. S. Sullivant et L. Lesquereux. 1856 



Presented by 

 The Author. 



Ditto. 



The Society. 



Ditto. 

 Ditto. 



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The Author. 

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The Authors. 



