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2. Those soundings containing interesting specimens may be 
afterwards mounted on a slide of Nevill’s cells, each description 
separate. ; 
3. That it may be desirable to request certain members to 
prepare cells, others to mount the specimens, and others to examine 
and report upon them when mounted. 
4, That any of the members of the Section who may desire to 
assist in the work can do so; and that a register be kept of 
specimens delivered to members and the time of return. 
5. That the Section shall provide glass slides and thin glass for 
the purpose of mounting the specimens. ~ . 
6. Duplicate slides of interesting objects from soundings may 
be exchanged for other objects not in the eabinet. 
7. The specimens of Indian woods may be mounted for distri- 
bution amongst the members by any member who may wish to 
take charge of them, and who will at the same time mount one 
slide of each for the cabinet; the blocks to be returned to the 
Section when done with. 
8. That a catalogue of the objects now in the cabinet be made 
as soon as convenient. 
9. The Committee recommends that three curators be annually 
appointed, who shall have charge of the management of the 
specimens belonging to the Section. 
LInNEAN SOCIETY. 
On the Sprrat Marxtines of the Fuocci im the Genus TRIcHIA. 
By the Rev. M. J. Berxuey, M.A., F.LS. 
A good deal of controversy has arisen respecting the real 
nature of the spiral markings in the genus Trichia, which were 
first observed by Schmidel and the younger Hedwig, and after- 
wards more exactly, on modern improvements in the microscope, 
by Klotzch and Corda, who were probably, at the time they 
made their observations, unaware of the earlier notices. The 
accuracy of Corda’s drawings has, however, been called in ques- 
tion ; and mycologists, a few months back, were pretty equally 
divided on either side, the one regarding the threads as real spiral 
vessels, the other insisting that the spiral lines were due to tor- 
sion, while Mr. Currie advocated a third opinion, in which he has 
been followed by De Bary and Wigand, viz., that the markings 
were due to elevations in the threads assuming a spiral direction. 
The question has again been brought immediately under my 
notice by some observations of Mr. Knight, sent in a letter to 
Dr. Hooker from New Zealand, an extract of which I shall beg to 
lay before the Society. 
“T notice,” writes Mr. Knight, “in the review of Mr. Ber- 
keley’s ‘ Outline of British Fungology’ in the ‘ Natural History 
