154 THE MICROSCOPICAL NEWS. 
I have described it for opaque dry mounts, but the process can 
be equally well used with transparent dry mounts. I also use the 
wax to help to fill up the sides of balsam cell mounts, between the 
closing cement and the finishing varnish. 
In adopting this plan, the wax must be kept very hot, and the 
brush should be left in it when not in use. 
I have never seen this process described, but since I found it 
out I have told many of my friends of it; they have all found it a 
great success.—JNo. E. FAwceTT. 
LiveRPOOL MicroscoPicaL SocieTy.—We are writing with the 
Fourteenth Annual Report of this Society before us, and congratu- 
late the President and Council upon the very interesting subjects 
brought before the Society during the past year. The catalogue of 
the contents of the Society’s cabinet and of the books in the library _ 
show that the young student in Liverpool has many aids, denied to 
him residing in less favoured localities. Let us hope these advan- 
tages will be appreciated. 
MANCHESTER CRyPTOGAMIC SocrETy.—At the usual monthly 
meeting held on March 19th, Captain Cunliffe in the chair, Mr. 
James Cash exhibited specimens of Cinclidium stygium from Mal- 
ham Tarn, and read a paper on its history as a British Moss. The 
species strictly belongs to the flora of Northern Europe and the 
Arctic regions. It is recorded as growing at two stations in England 
and one in Scotland. It was first discovered by Hansworth, Green- 
wood, and Nowell, of Todmorden, during the summer of 1836. 
Mr. Cash’s paper was full of interest to the Lancashire botanist, 
including as it did the correspondence of Wilson, Hooker, and the 
Todmorden artizans on the subject of its discovery. 
Mr. Foster exhibited a beautiful and robust form of the British 
fern Polystichum angulare. 
THE MANCHESTER MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.--MOUNTING CLASS. 
——A very interesting and well attended meeting of the Mounting 
Section of this Society was held on Wednesday evening, Mar. 14th, 
Mr. R. L. Mestayer, C.E., in the chair. é 
The subjects dealt with were—mounting of the Wasp’s head, 
Vespa vulgaris in pure balsam without pressure, by Mr. H. C. 
Chadwick, F.R.M.S., and the dissection of the Cockroach, Blatia 
ortentalis, by Mr. H. P. Aylward. 
The various organs of this common household visitant were laid 
bare by the demonstrator, and their structure explained, also hints 
as to the method of their preparation and mounting. 
RAmBLES.—On Saturday afternoon, the 7th April, the first ramble 
of the season, in search of pond life (in connection with the Man- 
chester Microscopical Society) took place. By the kind permission 
