270 THE NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST, 
Bedford, and Mr. T. Bennion-Acton. 5. Phanerogamia. Flowering plants, 
bearing true flowers and reproduced by seeds: Exhibited by Mr. J. Mills, Mr. 
Rochfort Connor, Mr. John Shaw, Mr. T. Wakefield, Mr. C. S. Patterson 
(Liverpool), and Mr. R. H. Job. 
Mineral Kingdom: (Illustrative of the microscopic structure of rocks) I. 
Sedimentary rocks (rocks formed by deposit of ‘‘ sediment ”), exhibited by Mr. 
Dickson, Mr. H. C. Beasley (Liverpool), and Mr. Nabb. 2. Organic rocks 
(rocks formed from plants or animals), exhibited by Mr. Denson, Mr. Shrubsole, 
and Mr. W. Shone. 3. Igneous rocks (rocks of volcanic origin), exhibited by 
Mr. W. F. Lowe, and Mr. Bryan Johnson. 
Among the miscellaneous exhibits were crystals shown with polariscope, by 
Mr. H. A. Higgins, Liverpool; Lophopus crystallinus, by Mr. George E. 
Davis, Stockport ; pond life, by Mr. A. Leicester, Liverpool; circulation of 
blood in young newts, by Dr. McClelland, Liverpool; electric spark under the 
microscope, by Mr. E. W. Okell; leaf of anacharis with parasitic growth, &c., 
by Mr. G. F, Chantrell, Mr. W. H. Weightman, and Mr. G. F. Healey. 
A collection of insects mounted without pressure was shown by Mr. Fred 
Enock, London. 
In No. 1 Committee Room Mr. A. O. Walker showed a fine collection of 
herbaceous plants, while Mr. R. S. Hudson, of the Bache Hall, exhibited a 
small collection of living plants. 
No. 2 Committee Room was devoted to a lantern exhibition of enlarged 
microscopic drawings by Mr. Rochfort Connor, which was attended by large 
numbers during the evening. 
Dr. Roberts, of Clare College, Cambridge, delivered an address on “ Higher 
Education,” and ‘‘ The Cultivation of Science,” and congratulated the Society 
upon the hearty and vigorous manner in which its work had been carried on. 
He strongly inculcated the teaching of science in schools, but at the same time 
held that literary culture was indispensable. With the increase of knowledge 
came an increase of pleasure, and therefore it would be admitted that one of the 
objects of a local scientific society should be to provide so much systematic 
teaching as was necessary to enable the younger members to study scientific 
pursuits with increasing interest and profit. The University of Cambridge had 
done a great deal in the way of promoting higher education in the country. 
The movement had been started eight years ago through the instrumentality of 
Professor Stewart, and since then very vigorous off-shoots had been sent out. If 
the time ever came when the question of national higher education became a 
subject for imperial legislation he felt confident that the work must be carried 
on along the lines already laid down. 
MANCHESTER CRYPTOGAMIC SOCIETY.—On September 19th, 
Captain P. G. Cunliffe in the chair, Mr. W. E. A. Axon called attention to 
the researches of M. H. Fauvel, who had recently examined a number of India- 
rubber tubes and teats attached to the infants’ feeding bottles in the day nurseries 
in Paris, and these he found to be infected with bacteria and ovoid cells and 
mycelium of cryptogamic vegetation, the particular species not having yet been 
determined. The milk used became infected with the same organisms. Speci- 
mens of Leftodon Smithii in fruit was sent for the society’s herbarium by the 
Rey. H. H. Wood. This beautiful little moss had been found in fruit by him in 
Dorsetshire. Notes from Herr Jack’s recently published monograph on the 
species of Radula were read by Mr. W. H. Pearson. In it seven species are 
escribed, six of which are British, and three of the seven peculiar to our flora. 
Three new species are described, two of which are also British. Radula 
Carringtoni, named by Herr Jack in honour of the president, Dr. Carrington, as 
the original discoverer; Radula commutata (Gottsche), and Radula Germana 
(ack), the last species being the one not yet known as indigenous to Britain. 
description is also given of the rare British species, Radula Lindbergiana 
