26 THE MICROSCOPICAL NEWS. 
MANCHESTER CRYPTOGAMIC SociETY.—The fifth annual meet- 
ing of this Society was held on Monday evening, Dec. 17th, Dr. 
B. Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair. 
Mr. Thomas Rogers, the honorary secretary, read the annual 
report. It reviewed the work done by the members, enumerating 
the new Cryptogamic plants which had been discovered in Britain 
by the members or their friends during the past year, the new 
European Continental species by corresponding members, a re- 
markable number of rare species that had been discovered in new 
localities, and some species which had not hitherto been found in 
fruit. The most interesting of the local species were Mnzum stel- 
lave and Gymnostomum calcareum, found in fruit by Mr. Holt in 
Derbyshire. The literary work of the Society had been most 
pleasant and interesting. Mr. Cash had written the history of 
Cinclidium stygium as a British Moss, and papers on the earlier 
bryological works of Mr. William Wilson in Scotland, Ireland, 
Anglesea, Cheshire, and Lancashire. Dr. Carrington had con- 
tributed a large packet of letters containing correspondence of 
many of the best known cryptogamic botanists who lived in the 
earlier part of the present century with the eminent artizan botanist, 
Edward Hobson. These letters may some day appear in a com- 
plete form. It was also satisfactory to know that the president and 
vice-president, Dr. Carrington and Mr. W. H. Pearson, had issued 
Fasciculus III of the Hepatice Lritannice Exsiccate. 
The following were elected the officers of the Society for the 
ensuing year :—Dr. B. Carrington, president ; Captain P. G. Cun- 
liffe and Mr. James Cash, vice-presidents ; Mr. T. Rogers, honorary 
secretary and treasurer ; librarian, Mr. Pearson. 
During the evening Mr. William Forster exhibited a splendid 
series of twenty-two varieties of the common folypodium vulgare, 
from the fernery of J. M. Barnes, of Milnthorpe. Most of the 
specimens were remarkable, and many of them very beautiful. Mr. 
George Stabler sent specimens of Lophocolea spicata (Tayl), col- 
lected by the late W. Wilson, near Conway. ‘This species has not 
hitherto been recorded as growing in Wales. Mr. Stabler also sent 
Jung. Schraderi, from a new locality by the river Lune, near 
Sedberg, collected by himself in October, 1882. Another rarity 
was Biyum concinnatum (Spruce) from the Pass of Llanberis, 
collected May, 1883. Mr. Cash exhibited specimens of Andreea 
sparstfolia, which had been collected on Helvellyn, in September 
last by the Rev. C. H. Waddell. The thanks of the society were 
accorded to Dr. Braithwaite, F.L.S., for all the parts yet published 
of his British Moss Flora, and to the Royal Microscopical Society 
for their Journal and Proceedings. 
TRANSPARENCIES FOR THE LANTERN.—Mr. Chapman gives the 
