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paper was illustrated with a series of about fifty exceedingly well 
executed drawings of polyzoa. 
MicroscopicaL.—We are glad to note that Mr. Coppock, who 
has for years been associated with the firm of Messrs. R. and J. 
Beck, has opened magnificent premises at too, Bond-street, 
London, where he will continue his business as a manufacturing 
optician. The instruments and apparatus manufactured by the 
firm (of which he was a member) will be supplied by him as 
heretofore, together with all the most recent improvements of home 
and foreign manufacture, and from his long experience and 
practical knowledge of the requirements of the student and 
amateur we have no doubt that he will meet with that support 
which his courtesy has hitherto awarded him. He promises us a 
full catalogue with as little delay as possible, and our knowledge 
of his care and ability assures us it will be well worth perusal when 
issued. 
MANCHESTER CRyproGAmMic Society. — Captain Cunliffe, 
F.R.M.S., in the chair. Mr. J. Cash exhibited a fruiting 
specimen of Leucobryum glaucum var. minus gathered in the New 
Forest. Mr. G. Slatter sent a specimen of Schzstostega osmun- 
dacea, which had been collected, December 30th, 1882, in the 
caves of Isis Parlis, Penrith, Cumberland. This pretty little moss 
is new to the province, and was found by Mr. Martindale. Mr. 
W. H. Pearson brought before the notice of the society the 
discovery of a new British hepatic Cephalozia Jackit (Limpricht), 
which Dr. Spruce had detected in specimens of Jung. byssacea, 
collected by W. Wilson, near Warrington, April, 1841. The 
species does not appear in the recently published memoir on 
Cephalozia, by Dr. Spruce. Captain Cunliffe exhibited a fine 
series of recently collected mosses, from Wales. Dzdymodon 
cylindricus being abundantly in fruit, and Campylostelium saxicola 
was exhibited as growing on loose stones. Dr. J. B. Wood sent 
fruiting specimens of Lurhynchium carcinatum, and Hypnum 
Bottini (Brudler), the latter being a new European moss. Both 
species were found by the Mayms in Italy. 
THE MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION.— 
Evidently there is something wrong in this society. The following 
extracts are made from a letter in the Manchester City News :-— 
“‘Sir,—It is quite evident that there ought to be a change in 
this society, and none I think could foresee this so well as the late 
honorary secretary, Mr. George Yates. He has for ten years done 
all that it was possible to do for the interests of the society, but 
through the incapacity and petty interference of a few members, 
