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Rotifer Vulgaris: ...scusseseesesee Fodgeggobrigdabnana ioPSo0so0Rd0C Mr, W. Burton. 
ihilodimagroscolamarensceeaeneescesciiees sscecs «vcledtsienrs srueee Do. 
Brachionus) Bakcerd recessions sae 01 ais ee csiecessuceersmceneneens Do. 
Arana, Cerato ply ecw a.anpess oe daonsiosns'odencedemetacseneede Do. 
GiicistesscnuystallinuSpemsctesss docetssts oe snxesseneuemetonnness Do. 
NUNC) SIESTA coosqoonanseudoanooBocepasnoLoddsodosobauosnoboe Mr. J. Astin. 
IDYe: © *Snocgdoscedscaacod ope nocHaEneatonce zoo Ubaccecaaroac Mr. Bolton, 
Diatonia cece: VanlOUSi esse nsenscseetas'esinesee cae ....Mr, J. Spence Smithson. 
Do. GO penee dateien ddasiseiss auincesetigasteiapeiases Mr, J. T. Wood. 
Sections Fossil, Botany Various........ssssessssesevsevens Do. 
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OpeniInG MeEtING.—The coming winter is being foreshadowed 
by the announcement relating to Microscopical Societies. The 
Rochdale and Whitworth Society is announcing its Opening Soirée, 
to extend over two days, the 21st and 22nd September, on each of 
which evenings a Lecture will be delivered, illustrated with trans- 
parencies from the oxy-hydrogen lantern. 
The Soirée will be opened by the Rev. Canon Maclure, M.A., 
Vicar of Rochdale, and amongst the Patrons we notice the follow- 
ing names :—The Earl of Derby, the Bishop of Manchester, T. B. 
Potter, Esq., M.P., W. Agnew, Esq., M.P., W. B. Carpenter, Esq., 
M.D., Lionel S. Beale, Esq., F.R.S., W. Boyd Dawkins, Esq., F.R.S, 
Arthur Gamgee, Esq., F.R.S., Rev. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., 
&c., &c. We heartily wish the executive every success, and in 
order that members of other societies wishing to be present may 
be able to do so, we may add that the Hon. Sec. is Mr. J. Renshaw, 
of 87, Drake-street, Rochdale. 
Micro-FuNcI.—In the autumn of last year (1880) I met with 
two potato fields near the village of Urmston greatly infested with 
the common potato fungus, Perenospora infestans ; this autumn I 
find both fields covered with what appeared to be fine crops of 
wheat. On careful examination I find a comparatively large pro- 
portion of the wheat infested with Tilletia caries, much more 
so than is usual in wheat crops. Does any physical relationship 
exist betwixt the two parasites ? 
As yet we are very much in the dark as to the life-history of 
micro-fungi. All students who may have opportunities of noticing 
any peculiar circumstance in their history should take some means 
of securing a permanent record of the same for further use ; and 
I have no doubt that the Editor of TH—E NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST 
will help in the good work.—Z. Brittain. 
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