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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Microscopical Society, January Wth, 1860. 

 Dr. Lankester, President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



J. A. Tulk, Esq., 5, East Preston-street, Edinburgh; 

 J. C. Eorsyth, Esq., Stoke-upon-Trent ; and George Kelly, 

 Esq., 9, Sutherland-gardens, Maida-vale, were balloted for, 

 and duly elected members of the Society. 



The following papers were read : 



1. ' On the Localities of Diatomacese/ by Mr. Norman. 

 {< Trans./ p. 59.) 



2. ' On the Reproduction of Confcrvoid Algse/ by Mr. 

 Druce. {< Trans/, p. 71.) 



The following letter, addressed to the President, was 

 read : — 



"My dear Sir, — I send you three slides of the same object. 



"No. 1, mounted in balsam, without any preparation except 

 washing away the salt water. 



"No. 2, the same burned on the cover, and mounted dry. 



" No. 3, the same neither boiled nor burned, and mounted 

 in fluid. It is probable that, in this last, all the objects may, 

 during the transit, be deposited on one side of the cell, but a 

 little shaking will perhaps cause them to become again 

 scattered, as they were when mounted. 



"The first time that it came under my notice, it was sent me, 

 11th September, 1858, by the Rev. R. Taylor, of Bedlington, 

 from the coast of Northumberland. I afterwards received it 

 from Mr. Mansfield Browne, of Liverpool, collected on that 

 coast. Thereafter it was sent me by Mr. Eloper, from the 

 Norfolk coast ; by Mr. G. Norman, of Hull, from near the 

 mouth of the Humber ; and the other day, I received an 

 immense quantity of it from Mrs. Macdonald, of St. Andrews. 

 Fif'eshire. 



"In all these cases it is found on very shallow pools among 

 the sands; it floats on 1 lie surface and forms extensive patches. 



If sand adheres, it is easily separated by a slight shaking in 



the bottle in which it is collected. 



