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Books Purchased. 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. 

 Annals of Natural History. 

 Proceedings of tiie Eoyal Society. 

 Micrographic Dictionary. Tliird Edition. 

 Mycographia Icones Fuugorum. Part 1. 



Apparatus, Slides, &c. 



Tnrn-table, from C. F. Cox, Esq., U.S.A. 



Eight Slides. 



Bos of Minerals, &c., from Mr. Hanks, of San Francisco. 



A selection of tliese last objects have been beautifully mounted 

 by W. T. Loy, Esq., and placed in the Society's cabinet. 



Papers of the Session 1875-6. 



The papers read before the Society during the past year will by 

 reason of their variety and importance bear favourable comparison 

 with those of any previous period. Arranging them according to 

 subjects, we find 



Natural History. 



" Further Eesearches into the Life History of the Monads," by 

 W. H. Dallinger and J. Drysdale, M.D., read May 1st, and con- 

 cluding the series commenced in 1873. 



Paper on " Bog Mosses," by Dr. Braithwaite, finishing the series 

 commenced in July, 1871, the whole supplying descriptions and 

 figures of all the known Eui'opean sjDecies. 



" A Eotifer named Melicerta (Tyro) " was described and figured 

 by Dr. Hudson, October 6th. 



The imperfectly known " Entozoon Bucephalus polymorphus" was 

 the subject of remarks by Mr. Badcock, in April, to which Mr. Slack 

 appended notes translated from Von Baer and other observers ; and 

 Mr. Stewart contributed further information in the July number. 

 The " Absorptive Glands of Carnivorous Plants " were described and 

 figured by Professor A. W. Bennett, on December 1st. 



" Perforating Proboscis Moths " were brought imder the notice of 

 the Society by Mr. Slack (on October 6th), calling attention to a 

 paper read before the French Academy on certain Australian species, 

 throwing light upon a slide presented to the Society in April, 1874, 

 by Mr. Mclntire, the first European observer of a perforating organ 

 belonging to a lepidojiter. 



The " Markings of Frustulia Saxonica " formed the subject of a 

 note by Dr. Woodward, read on November 3rd. 



The " Variability of Form of the Forminifera, and especially of 

 the Cristellarians," was elaborately illustrated in a paper by Professor 

 Rupert Jones, read on December 1st, and published in the ' M. M. J.' 

 for February. 



Apparatus and Optics. 



The President (H. C. Sorby, Esq.) described "A New and Im- 

 proved Microscope Spectrum Apparatus, and its Applications to 



