PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 35 



The Canadian Journal of Science and xVrt, No. 29 



The Photograpliic Journal, No. 103 



Recreative Science, No. 1.0 . 



Six Microscopic Slides 



Two Microscopic Pliotographs . 



Purchased. 

 The Editor. 

 Ditto. 

 Ditto. 



J. F. Norman, Esq. 



G. Jackson, Esq, 



December IWi. 



Researches on the Foraminifera. By Dr. Carpenter, 

 from 'Phil. Transactions,' June 17th, 1858 



Researches on Tomopleiis onisciformis. By Dr. Car- 

 penter, from ' Transactions of Linnean Society,' 1859 

 and 1860 _ . . . " . 



Eight Slides illustrating the Development of the 

 Comatula .... 



Six Slides of Bryozoa from Arrau 



Journal of Recreative Science, No. 17 



Photographic Journal, No. 103 



Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 

 Vol. V, No. IS . . . 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 36 



Notes on the Presence of Animal Life at vast Depths 

 in the Sea, with observations on the nature of the 

 Sea-bed, as bearing on submarine telegraohv. By 

 Dr. G. C. Wallich ^ _ . / \ 



Observations on the Neuration of the Hind Wings of 

 Hymenopterous Insects, and on the Hooks which join 

 the Fore and Hind Wings together in flight. By Miss 

 Staveley .... 



British Journal of Dental Science, six numbers 



One Slide of Insect .... 



The Author. 



Ditto. 



Dr. Carpenter. 

 Ditto. 

 The Editor. 

 Ditto. 



Ditto. 

 Purchased. 



The Author. 



Ditto. 

 Editor. 



. S. C.'Whitbread, 

 Esq., 



W. G. Seakson, Curator. 



Tlie EoYAL Society or Edinburgh aiicl the Neill Medal. 



At the opening meeting, on 5tli curt., for session 1859-60, of 

 the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, the Weill medal and prize Avas 

 presented, through Professor Balfour, to W. Lauder Lindsay, 

 M.D., F.L.S., for his ' Memoir on the Spermogones and Pycnides 

 of filamentous, frutieulose, and foliaceous Lichens,' read to the 

 Society during the last session. In addition to awarding this 

 prize, the Society is expending a considerable sum in publishing 

 the memoir in question in the forthcoming part of its ' Transac- 

 tions' (vol. xsii), and \n engraving the relative illustrations, exe- 

 cuted by the author, which consist of twelve plates of between 400 

 and 500 drawings. 



