rv. 



view, "vrith an account of his discoyeries of the characters 

 afforded by the blood-discs in Tragulus, Moschus, and 

 Orycteropus.^^ 



M.T. Gulliver, on "The Auditory Organs of Molluscs and 

 Insects." 



The Sub-Committee appointed to make arrangements for 

 publishing the Papers read, has arranged with the Editor of 

 Scientific Opinion* to publish in abstract the proceedings of 

 the Society. Accordingly it is requested that every member 

 making a communication will furnish an abstract at the time 

 of reading the Paper, that a duly authentic Report may be 

 published without delay. 



The Sub-Committee on the Botany of the District has not 

 been idle, as will appear from the following report of Mr. 

 Keid, the Honorary Secretary of the Committee, and our 

 best thanks are due to that gentleman for the talent and zeal 

 with which he has entertained the subject. 



In the department of the Library the following donations 

 have to be noticed : — 



" Sketches to a Scale of the Auditory Organs of Molluscs," 

 by Geo. Gulliver, Esq., E.R.S. ; from the Author. " On the 

 Muscular Sheath of the Qilsophygus of the Aye-Aye, 

 (Chiromys Madagascariensis)," by G. Gulliver, Esq., F.R.S. ; 

 from the Author. " On the Fibres of the Crystalline Lens of 

 Petromyzonini," by G. Gulliver, Esq., E.R.S. ; from the 

 Author. " The Diatom Prism and the true form of Diatom 

 Markings, the Microscope Prism and the Structure of the 

 Podura Scales," by the Eev. J. B. Eeade, E.E.S. ; from the 

 Author. "Le Glacier de Boinon" and other Pamphlets, per 

 S. A. Sexe ; from the University of Christiana. 



The Committee, in returning the cordial thanks of the 

 Society to those Members and others who have aided it by 

 Lectures, Papers, and Donations, entertain the hope that such 

 favours may be continued. And, in order to extend the in- 



* The Abstract of the Proceedings of tlie Society for the year 1869 is 

 published in Scientific Opinion, April, 1870. 



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