250 THE NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST. 
N. lanceolata, Grammatophora marina, Amphiprora alata, Pin- 
nularia radiosa, P. viridis together with several Amoeba, 
NortH OF ENGLAND MicroscopicaL SociETy.—The second 
out-door meeting of this Society was held by the kind permission 
of Sir Henry A. Clavering, Bart., at Axwell Park, on the afternoon 
of Friday, July 13th. The margin of the lake affords a fine 
hunting ground for the microscopist and entomologist, the dense 
masses of aquatic vegetation affording shelter to innumerable 
organisms of the highest interest. The water lilies (Vymphea alba) 
grow in conspicuous patches and are now blooming luxuriantly— 
Equisetum, Chara, Myriophyllum, Callitriche—the burr reed 
(Spargnium zamosum), and many other plants of botanical interest 
present themselves abundantly. 
Microscopic CaBINETS.—We have been recently informed that 
Mr. Hembry, of 16, Newgate Street, London, has imported some 
curious cabinets from Japan of camphor wood, and has had them 
fitted up for the storing of microscopic objects in flat trays in three 
drawers, holding about 450 objects, leaving them in two little cup- 
boards and one large bottom drawer ample room for all kinds of 
cements, tools, brushes, and media for mounting ; in fact it becomes 
a microscopic and mounting cabinet. ‘The price is, we believe, 
#2 15s. od. The outline of the above described cabinets are 
fashioned to represent the Fusiama or Hog Mountain of Japan. 
THE FORMATION OF VEGETABLE MouLp.—A new work by Mr. 
Charles Darwin will appear early in October. Its subject is the 
formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, and 
the book will also contain some observations on the habits of 
worms. 
THE INOCULATION oF VINES.—The science to which M. Pasteur 
has devoted his studies and experiments with so much success 
appears likely to receive a new development. At a recent meeting 
of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, a communication was read 
from a gentleman who announced that he had discovered a mode 
of inoculating vines as a protection against the attacks of the 
phylloxera. 
Woop Srctions.—In our next number we hope to present our 
readers with a chromo-lithograph of a series of wood sections 
(double-stained) which Messrs. West, Newman, & Co., are prepar- 
ing for the Editor’s forthcoming work on PRacticaAL Microscopy. 
ANIMAL INOCULATION.—The Local Government Board are cir- 
culating amongst local authorities copies of a letter addressed to 
