102 THE Microscope. 
interests as I should, and put this off till too late. During the 
session I commissioned Mr. Bulloch to make it, and he agreed 
to do so (not “ to work it out”), and hence when I put the MS. 
into the hands of Secretary Kellicott I inserted the phrase in 
the form in which it appears. Now, although the Proceedings 
did not finally appear till about the holidays—long after I had 
learned of Mr. Bulloch’s breach of faith, the first sheets con- 
taining my address were set up, revised, and printed off by the 
27th of August, as is shown by a letter of Secretary Kellicott, 
of that date; and the sentence in question is thus an indisput- 
able evidence of the fact that I had engaged Mr. Bulloch to 
construct some specimens of a device of my own designing, and 
which I expected to exhibit as my own at a future meeting. 
But I cannot tax your space nor the patience of your read- 
ers so far as to follow up all the statements and insinuations of 
Mr. Bulloch’s letter. Nor is it worth while. I have no desire 
for such controversy. I shall simply say that I did show draw- 
ings of my device to Mr. B. in 1880, and again in 1883; that my 
plan was not a mere suggestion for him to work out, but a com- 
plete device, needing only mechanical skill and facilities for its 
construction. He has made up that device, patented it as his 
own, and published it to the world as his own, and now boasts 
of his ‘‘ enterprise” and shrewdness. I shall not disturb his 
enterprises any further. 
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TINTINNIDIUM SEMICILIATUM (STERKI) S. K., AND 
PHALANSTERIUM CONSOCIATUM (FRES.) CIENK. 
DR. ALFRED C. STOKES, 
AVING recently collected these Infusoria in some profusion, 
Iam able to confirm some of the discoverer’s statements 
concerning the first-named organism, and to add somewhat to 
our knowledge of its structure. It has not been recorded from 
England, nor seen until now, so far as I can ascertain, by any 
but its discoverer, yet some of the latter’s assertions have been 
doubted. Sterki describes the individual members of the ado- 
ral ciliary wreath as large, broad appendages with their distal 
extremities pectinated, and so convinced is he of the correct- 
