PKOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 273 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet since April 1st, 1874 : — 



From 



Nature. Weekly The Editor. 



Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



.Journal of the Liiinean Society. No. 75 Ditto. 



Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Man- 

 chester. Vol.4. 1871 Ditto. 



Proceedings of Sessions of ditto, from 1868 to 1870 Ditto. 



Yerhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Kouiglichen-Zoologisch-botanis- 



chen Gesellschaft in Wien. 1873. 

 Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings of the Royal 



Society of Tasmania for 1872 Ditto. 



Flora of Middlesex. By Dr. Trimen and W. T. Thiselton 



Dyer. 1869. 

 Preparation and Mounting Microscopic Objects. By Thomas 



Davis. 2nd edition. ^ 1873. 

 A Manual of Botanic Terms. By M. C. Cooke. 2nd edition. 



1873. 

 Our Reptiles. By M. C. Cooke. 1865. 

 Bulletins de la Socie'te' Royal de Botanique de Belgique. 



11 vols. 1862 to 1873 Ditto. 



A History of British Quadrupeds. By Thomas Bell, &c. 



2nd edition. 

 One Slide— The Poison Fang of the Viper -Pe^ias 6e/-Ms .. .. Mr. A. C. Elliott. 



Dr. G. Paddock Bate was elected a Fellow, and Mr. Henry G. 

 Hanks, of San Francisco, a Corresponding Fellow of tbe Society. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist.-Secretary . 



Medical Mickoscopical Society. 



At tbe eleventh ordinary meeting of this Society, held Friday, 

 Feb. 20, at 8 p.m., Jabez Hogg, Esq., President, in the chair, the 

 minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed ; the names 

 of three gentlemen for proposal were read, and three other gentle- 

 men were elected members. 



In the unavoidable absence, of the Secretaries, the Treasurer, Mr. 

 T. C. White, read a communication from Mr. Groves " On Cataloguing 

 and x\rranging Microscopic Specimens." After describing the diffi- 

 culties generally experienced, he said that he had adopted a method 

 at once simple and of universal application. For small collections 

 he advocated a total absence of classification in the cabinet, though for 

 large collections he considered it necessary. The catalogue he used, 

 and which he would rely upon in all cases rather than the classifica- 

 tion of specimens, was this : — He took an ordinary alphabeted note- 

 book, and in that noted under the proper alphabetical heading every 

 portion of every preparation. Thus, for a specimen of small intes- 

 tine : — Under (I) was entered — Intestine, small. No. — ; then under 

 (G), Glands, Brunner's, No, — ; Peyer's, No. — . Under (V), Villi, 

 No. — ; Villi, lacteals of. No. — ; Villi, invol. muscle of, No. — , and 

 so on. This method he found very handy for specimens required for 

 demonstration purposes. 



A vote of thanks having been passed, the President said he 



