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Sources." It i» requested that the members of the section will 

 meanwhile obtain and communicate all the information they cant 

 on the subject. 



Mr. Lynde exhibited a specimen of a small insect allied to the 

 Podura, which he found leaping about on the surface of the water 

 in his aquarium. Mr. Lynde had never seen a description of such 

 an insect, nor was it known to any of the members of the section 

 present. 



Mr. Brothers exhibited the Hydra viridis, &c. 



A few specimens and parts of flowers obtained at the Botanical 

 Gardens were exhibited by the secretary. In the tank of the 

 Victoria Eegia little minute animal life could be discovered during 

 a short visit. A specimen of Cetochilus was shown, which was. 

 found there, as also a few diatoms not fully examined. 



November IQth, 1860. — A letter was read from Mr. E. D. 

 Parbishire, relative to the deposits from the raised sea bottom 

 found at Capell Backen, Uddevalla, near Gottenburgh, in Sweden. 

 He observes that " the hill side from a height of about fifty feet 

 above the level of the sea to that of about two hundred and thirty 

 feet, consists of layers of fossil shells, varying from ten to thirty 

 feet thick, alternating with beds of more or less coarse gravel and 

 clayey sand." Mr. Darbishire contributed, for the use of the 

 members, a parcel of washings from shells, and a box containing 

 dry sieved soil for microscopical examination. 



A letter was read from Mr. John Hepworth, of Crofts Bank, 

 describing his method of washing and mounting calcareous and 

 siliceous shells, dry and in balsam. Mr. Hepworth also presented • 

 to the Members of the Section, for mounting, a piece of injected 

 kidney. 



A paper by Mr. J. B. Dancer, F.R.A.S., was read, " On clean- 

 ing and preparing diatoms obtained from soundings and other 

 sources." 



The Secretary exhibited a portion of sea-weed from the Gulf 

 Stream, in which were found a few diatoms, remains of entoraos- 

 traca, &c., contributed by Mr. A. da S. Lima, of London. 



