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not become entirely dried up when placed under it. He should be 

 glad to see where this had previously been shown. 



Mr. Charles Stewart observed that the late Mr. Woodward had 

 mentioned the case of a snail which resembled in some respects what 

 had been related by Mr. Wenham. In this instance the snail had 

 been fixed to a slab in the British Museum for many years, when one 

 day it began to show signs of returning to life, and removed the lid 

 which had closed the opening of the shell, and crawled round as far 

 as its attached end would permit. 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Parfitt, of Exeter, 

 descriptive of a presumed new animal, to which the name of Agchisteus 

 plumosus {Parfitt), had been given ; the communication will be found 

 printed at pp. 210, 211. 



The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Parfitt for his com- 

 munication. 



Mr. Stewart exhibited a preparation of a rabbit's kidney, showing 

 the epithelial nature of the lining of the Malpighian capsule, a similar 

 squamous epithelium was seen passing down the narrow neck by 

 which the capsule became continuous with the convoluted uriniferous 

 tube. 



Mr. B. T. Lowne thought that Mr. Stewart's specimen was quite 

 a demonstration of a fact which was now becoming generally received ; 

 the specimen exhibited was a remarkably good one. 



A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Stewart for his observations. 



The President said that they were in possession of a paper by 

 their late President, Mr. W. E. Parker, upon the Facial Arches of the 

 Sturgeon, which was announced as one of the papers to be read that 

 evening ; unfortunately, however, Mr. Parker had been unavoidably pre- 

 vented from reaching the meeting in time, and under these circum- 

 stances it was thought best to postpone the paper until the next 

 meeting, when he hoped the author would be able to read it to them 

 himself, in which case they would have the advantage of hearing from 

 him any viva voce observations which he might wish to make in 

 addition to what he had written. 



Donations to the Library, from March 5th to April 2nd, 1873 : — 



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Land and Water. Weekly The Editor. 



Nature. Weekly Ditto. 



Athenpeum. Weekly Ditto. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly ' . . . . Society. 



Popular Science Review Editor. 



Bulletin de la Socie'te' Botanique de France Society. 



Thomas Palmer, Esq., was elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Walter W. Peeves, 



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