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My reasons for regarcliug these bodies as eindermal aj)pe}idages 

 are : — 1. They certainly appear naked and uncovered hy any epidermal 

 membrane, the focus for the epidermis being lower than that for the 

 glands, but agreeing with that for the small inner circle referred to. 

 2. A favourable preparation will sometimes show them projecting over 

 the edge of the section, and provided! with a short peduncle. 3. On 

 several occasions I have dissected out the growing j)oint of a young 

 bud, on which were leaves in different stages of development. On these 

 I find a few projecting unicellular bodies, whose protoplasm was dis- 

 tinctly vacuolated, in a manner that seemed to foreshadow the sub- 

 sequent division into two, four, or more cells. 



If these observations are correct — and, having repeated them so 

 often, I have no doubt that they are — it appears to me that Mr. 

 Bennett's statements will require to be modified. 



I may add further, that if the bodies under notice have any 

 physiological relations with the glands of "insectivorous plants," 

 with which they are compared, analogy would lead us to expect them 

 on, rather than beneath the epidermis, as is the case with those of 

 Drosera, Dioncea, Pinguicula, &c. 



I am, Sir, yours most respectfully, 



Thos. Hick, B.A., B.Sc. 



PEOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Royal Microscopical Society. 



King's College, February 2, 1876. 



Anniversary Meeting. — H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



A list of donations to the Society was read by the Secretary, and 

 the thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 



The Treasurer read his Annual Statement of the accounts of the 

 Society for the past year, duly audited and found correct. 



The President having put the motion from the chair, " That the 

 report of the Treasurer be received and adopted," declared it to be 

 unanimously carried. 



The Secretary read the Annual Keport of the Council, which was 

 in like manner received and adopted by the meeting. 



The Secretary said he had an announcement to make, which he 

 felt sure would be received by the Fellows with great gratification. 

 They had received from the President a very kind and handsome off'er 

 to give a soiree to the Fellows of the Society on the evening of Friday, 

 the 21st of April. He thought this a very handsome offer on the part 

 of the President, who had undertaken to defray the entire expense of 



