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however, to be seen with perfect clearness by the use of the gold 

 method, though not in general by carmine, &c., as used by Dr. 

 Beale. 



Dublin Microscopical Club. 



21st September, 1871. 



Saddened by the intelligence of the death of their lamented 

 fellow member, Mr. George Dixon, the Club relinquished the 

 stated Monthly Meeting intended to have been held on the above 

 date ; for, although a lengthened illness had for some time de- 

 prived the meetings of his genial presence, the members regarded 

 the loss of a valued friend which they had just sustained as too 

 recent, and their sense of it too keen, to hold the ordinary monthly 

 reunion, whilst they felt, too, that such a mark of respect was but 

 a small tribute due to the memory of one so truly and so justly 

 held in high regard and esteem. 



IQth October, 1871. 



Mr. Vickers showed some striking examples of ordLnary 

 " pond life " under his microscope, presenting, for those who 

 might not be conversant with such, an interesting " happy 

 family." 



Eev. E. O'Meara exhibited and pointed out the specialities of 

 a new Stictodiscus from the " Sulu " material, which he is at 

 present engaged in working up, and the details of which he hoped 

 ere long to furnish. 



Mr. Archer showed one or two sketches of new Desmidian 

 species, amongt the most striking of some novelties encountered 

 in a recent visit to Connemara, in company with Mr. A. Andrews, 

 Dr. Barker, and Mr. Crowe. He was endeavouring to work up 

 the material, and would hope to show some further drawings ere 

 long. Some of these forms were exceedingly scanty, and it would 

 be almost hopeless to alight upon examples for display at the 

 meeting. He exhibited, however, a fine form, which he thought 

 he must, at least provisionally, regard as Docidium nodosum 

 (Bailey), which would thus be new to Britain, and of this he had 

 encountered only just this single specimen, and that on the 

 evening previous to the meeting, and he at once tried to secure 

 it. Whether correct or not in this identification, this was, at all 

 events, an extremely striking and handsome form, its large size 

 and bold, deeply undulate outline, caused by the four whorls of 

 rounded conspicuous prominences, entitling it to take rank 

 amongst the finest, at least, of British forms. The principal 

 difl:erence between the present and the figure given by Bailey 

 ("Micros. Obs. in S. Carolina, Georgia, and Florida," pi. i, 

 fig. 4) was the existence here of a number of short, conical, 



