158 MEMORANDA. 
and appended portions, it was found that the large vessels, 
the digestive tract, and nerve-cord, divided at the eighty-fifth 
ring, and were symmetrically arranged in each of the lateral 
appendages (fig. 2). The generative organs were fully de- 
veloped and quite normal; the sete well developed on each 
appendage. Each appendage had a distinct terminal anus.— 
CHARLES Ropertson, Demonstrator of Anatomy, Oxford. 
Slides by Post—Having seen the discussion recorded in 
the last number of the ‘ Microscopical Journal’ on the sub- 
ject of sending slides by post, and having had bitter experi- 
ence of the horrors of the middle passage, I would venture to 
offer to microscopists the following plan, which I have never 
known to fail. Cut two narrow strips of card-board, and 
gum them across the slide on each side of the cover (4, a, 
fig. 1), so as to prevent a slide or the side of the box from 
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touching the cover; roll up four or five slides in paper, and 
place them in one of the ordinary postal boxes. The box 
should be left bare, and an ordinary parchment label attached 
FIC. 2. 
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to it by lacing a cord round it, as in fig. 2; on this label 
the direction should be written and the stamp affixed.— 
T. G. Stokes, Aughnarloy. 
Erratum.—In the List of Fellows duly elected on the 12th 
of December, 1866, the name of William Maguire, Esq., was 
given in this Journal instead of William Moginie, Esq., 35, 
Queen Square, W.C. 
