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table ready to work on, and the whole can be put away in an equally short 
space of time. During the evening the following objects were exhibited ;— 
Diatoms, various (Wray’s one-Sixth)...........sssesssssnseeeees Mr. Alston. 
Larvee of the Ephemeridz and their cast skins ......... Mr. Blackburn. 
Sechonl Oh ElumiamyWONGHeccsc.csccnssceoetectn cesses Mr. A. J. Doherty. 
a Byeron Sucklebacks....c1.:sscacsencncstceenneaes Mr. Dunkerley. 
o: Jaw Bone of Kitten (vertical) .............006 Mr. Dunkerley. 
oc Ig hn) |/BNCopcokapagaccnegshad soredbne dasapadtedace Mr. Dunkerley. 
IPEQDOSCIS] Ol h lymecterieesene- + dacs core ttcsceradaasice consciences Mr. Lofthouse. 
IESE HAD TE SUTE ooedcosecqocenede dbosaqdcdnonacasSossogoucoacanece Mr. Mestayer. 
EVAR UA ULELL ES Renee escceteaestecsevdecaesovessececstccscusosest Mr. Mestayer. 
Nicriner AN Deen MTs esses sc stoceccsccsecnesesae teens acces nse sriy Mr, Miles. 
Transverse section of crystalline lens of Human Eye.....Mr. Napper. 
Parasite Diatoms on Marine Algze.........seccseceeseeneeenees Mr. Stanley. 
Barlp-jeaved: Scale MOSS. pores tsctetercccenccseeassccesectreasene’ Mr. Stanley. 
MANCHESTER MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.—At the last meeting 
of the Society, held on Nov. 3rd, the President (Mr. John Boyd) stated that 
satisfactory arrangements having been made for the issue and receiving of 
books, members would now be asked for donations towards the purchase of 
books for the circulating library. A proof copy of a new work on Practical 
Microscopy, by Mr. George E. Davis, F.R.M.S., one of the vice-presidents, 
was submitted for inspection. Mr. Thomas Brittain, vice-president, distributed 
Puccinia malvacearum, and Mr. Hay, of the Salford Royal Hospital, samples 
of the various starches. 
Mr. Herbert C. Chadwick read a short communication on Anthophysa vege- 
tans, specimens of which he had found ina pond at Eccles. This infusorian, 
which belongs to the family Dendromonadide, consists of a dark brownish 
branching stem, to the free ends of which animalcules are attached in clusters, 
numbering from fifteen or twenty to as many as fifty or sixty individuals. The 
stem is built up of particles of food, from which the nutritive portion has been 
extracted by the monads in passing them through their bodies, each monad 
contributing its share, and this gives rise to the striated structure seen in some 
specimens. A short length of the stem, below the point of union with the 
clusters of monads, is often very soft and flexible, and the clusters may be 
seen to spin round at a rapid rate and in one direction for many minutes, in 
response to the vibrations of the long and extremely fine flagella with which 
the monads are provided. Each monad or zooid possesses a nucleus and two 
or three contractile vesicles. Occasionally the clusters may be seen detached 
from the stem, and swimming freely. Mr. Chadwick stated that he had repeated 
with some success an experiment made by Mr. Saville Kent, and described by 
him in his Manual of the Infusoria. This was performed by feeding the ani- 
malcules with carmine or indigo. The particles of colouring matter were 
quickly ingested, and were soon to be seen scattered about in the newly-formed 
part of the stem, having been passed into it through the posteriom extremity or 
point of union with the pedicle of each monad. Associated with Azthophysa 
wegetams were some very fine specimens of Carehesium (or Epistylis), and a 
curious organism named Phacus longicaudus, the form of which strongly re- 
sembles a three-bladed screw. 
Mr. John Smith, M.R.C.S., of Chorlton-road, followed with a paper on 
the Life History of Cysticercus cellulose. In the course of the paper, Mr. 
Smith said the meat measle had been known from time immemorial, the Mosaic 
injunction to abstain from eating swine’s flesh being probably founded ona 
knowledge of the mischievous effects of Cysticercus and Trichinz on man, and 
was one of the many wonderful hygienic rules contained in the Levitical law. 
The pork measle was mentioned in one of the Greek plays of Aristophanes. A 
learned physician had said that man was aptly defined as the cooking animal, 
