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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Mr. F. Fitch exhibited a specimen of Mr. Dalton’s curiously beau- 
tiful slides of butterfly scales, arranged as a bouquet of flowers with 
insects. 
Donations to the Library and Cabinet from October 2nd to 
November 6th, 1872 : — 
From 
Land and Water. Weekly The Editor. 
Nature. Weekly Ditto. 
Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 
Journal of the Society of Arts Society. 
Journal of the London Institution, No. 17 Institution. 
Journal of the Linnean Society, No. 55 Society. 
On Callograptus radicans, a New Graptolite. By John Hopkinson,F.G.S. Author. 
Popular Science Review, No. 45 Editor. 
Bulletin de la Socie'te Botanique de France Society. 
The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society, 
viz . : — 
Arthur Angell, Jun., Esq. 
John Thomas Atkinson, Esq. 
Joseph F. Gibson, Esq. 
Charles Thomas Hudson, LL.D. 
Robert Marchant, Esq. 
John Matthews, M.D., &c. 
Walter W. Reeves, 
Assist. -Secretary. 
Erratum. — On p. 250 of the November number, line 7 from the top, for larva 
read cilia. 
Oldham Microscopical Society. 
The members of the Oldham Microscopical Society held their second 
conversazione for the season in the club-room of the Oldham Lyceum, 
on the 18th of October, when, though the night was stormy, a very re- 
spectable company assembled. On entering the room we were struck 
by the fine display of first-class binocular and other microscopes, under 
which were displayed the various tissues and deposits indicative of dis- 
ease ; and on the walls numerous well-executed enlarged drawings were 
hung, intended to illustrate the subjects dealt with in what may be 
termed the central attraction of the evening — viz. the paper by Dr. 
George Thomson “ On the Use of the Microscope in Disease.” Ainong 
the subjects illustrated we observed under the microscopes several spe- 
cimens which displayed the peculiar forms of cell which distinguish 
cancerous growths, with their fibrous framework and distinct nuclei ; 
also pus cells, treated with acetic acid ; sarcini, or fungoid growths, 
found in the vomit under certain conditions, &c., &c. The lecturer 
dealt with a subject which involved most important issues, and is 
necessarily of a most extensive character, the difficulty being to pre- 
sent to the non-professional mind sufficient to enable it to intelligently 
comprehend the subject, at least in outline, and yet not burden it with 
undesirable details. This happy medium, we think, was most success- 
