44 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



and the Annual Eeports and Journals of the Quekett Club from the 

 commencement, from the Hon. Sec. of the club. 



Mr. J. Howell read a paper "On Excavations through the Post- 

 Pliocene of Brighton." 



Mr. Mayall reported on the successful issue of his invitations of the 

 town authorities and the society to the British Association, which had 

 named Brighton as the place of meeting for 1872. 



Eeading Microscopical Society.* 



December 6th, 1870. — Dr. Shattle read part of a communication as 

 to the action of electricity in the development of nerve-cells ; and 

 having referred to the observations of John Hunter, Lister, and 

 Eichardson upon coagulation of the blood, to the remarks of Lee and 

 Pettigrew upon the spiral arrangement of nerves and layers of the 

 heart, and to Dr. Beale's descriptions of the nerve-cells of the frog, 

 proceeded to give particulors of his own experiments and theory. 



Captain Lang exhibited selected specimens of various Diatoms 

 obtainable in Primary Peat ; the gi-eater number being Pinnulariae, as 

 P. nohilis, P. major, P. acrosplioeria, P. viridis, P. gibba, P. divergens, 

 P. interrnpta, P. lata, P. alpina. 



Mr. Tatem showed Difflngice, symmetrically mounted, and Mr. 

 Austin exhibited the mycelium of Peziza ceruginosa in green oak- 

 wood. 



BIBLIOGKAPHY. 



Anatomja patologiczna. Wydame biblioteka umicjetnosci lekars- 

 kich. W. Brodowski. Bd. I. 1 Halfte. Warszawa. 



Botanische Untersuchungen iiber die Alkoholsgahrungs pilzc. 

 Mx. Kees. Leipzig. Felix. 



Bryologia Javanica sen descriptio muscorum frondosorum archi- 

 pelagi Indici iconibus illustrata. Fasc 61-63. F. Dozy und J. H. 

 Molkenboer. Lugduni Batavorum. 



Annales musei botanici Lugdimo Batavi. Edidit F. A. Miquel. 

 Tom. rV., fasc 9. Amstelodami. Leipzig. Fr. Fleischer. 



Abhandlungen der natui-forschenden Gcsellschaft zu Halle. 11 

 Band, 2 Heft. Halle. Schmidt. 



Bulletin de 1' Academic Imperiale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg. 

 Tome XV. 36 feuilles. Leipzig. Voss. 



Ueber die wachsende Kenntniss d unsichtbaren Lebens als 

 felsbildende Bacillarien in Californien. Von Dr. C. J. Ehrenberg. 

 Berlin. Diimmler. 



* Eeport supplied by Mr. B. J. Axistin. 



