268 THE MICROSCOPICAL NEWS, 
of the “ Bazaar” suggested the establishment of a naming depart: 
ment for plants, &c. The idea did not seem to meet with much 
favour, but the following remarks made by two subsequent writers 
may give a hint to some of “our” readers :—“‘I have, as recorder of 
the Botanical Record Club, had many thousands of dried plants 
passing through my hands for name, or verification of name, during 
the last ten years, and although, of course, it is difficult, and some- 
times zmpossible, to name plants which reach me in a state of pulp, 
yet I can assure “ Jack of all Trades” that fresh flowers or plants 
not in flower, only in bud, and mosses, if gathered and sent fresh 
inclosed in a mustard tin or a starch box, or even wrapped in a 
little oiled silk or gutta percha tissue, can be named, and safely 
named, in nineteen cases out of twenty, by any one really familiar 
with the living things. 
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“The difficulty of transmitting botanical and other specimens by 
post without injury, to which Mr. May refers in your issue of the 
27th July, may be got over by using any of the special postal boxes 
that can now be purchased at most stationers. Those made by 
the Folding Box Co. are very convenient, as they can be had any 
size, at a very low price, and are particularly convenient for botani- 
cal and entomological collectors, as a considerable number can 
easily be carried in the field, and fragile or important specimens 
placed in them without delay.” 
Mr. Bo.ron’s Stup1o.—Thomas Bolton begs leave to call the 
attention of his correspondents to the display he is making at his 
stand in the Fisheries Exhibition, just above the Aquarium, close 
to the Queensgate upper exit, and below the stairs leading to the 
Western Gallery. 
He has had three successive Nests of Sticklebacks brought from 
Birmingham, and in each case the Male Stickleback has hatched 
out in due time a brood of young fry. 
He has now an attractive display in his microscopes, and last 
week exhibited a Wheel Animalcule sent to him from Salisbury, 
which proves new to science, never having been described before. 
He has now on exhibition the very rare treelike Infusorium 
Zoothamnium arbuscula, the beautiful grouped Wheel animalcule 
Lacinularia socialis, and the fresh-water Polyzoa Cristatella mucedo. 
The circulation of blood in the gill of the tadpole of the Newt, 
and the circulation of the sap in the water, weed JVitella translucens, 
always proves attractive. 
As opportunity occurs, Mr. Bolton has shown various examples 
of the Parasites of Fish Salmon disease, and many examples of 
living Fresh-water and Marine Life. 
