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Donations to tlie Library and Cabinet from March 1st to April 



5tli, 1871 :— 



From 



Land and Water. "Weekly Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Atlienseum. Weekly W. W. R. 



Journal of the London Institution, No. 4 Institution. 



Popular Science Review, No. 39 Editor. 



Tliirty-six SUdes of Palates of Victorian Mollusca, 

 collfcted and presented by C. Maplestone, Esq., of 

 Williamstown, Australia. Mounted by S. J. 

 Mclntire G. Maplestone, Esq. 



A Microscope and quantity of Apparatus. By M. Che- 

 valier, of Paris Sir John Sebright. 



Francis Alfred Bedwell, M.A., Cantab., was elected a Fellow of 

 tbe Society. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist. -Secretary. 



Beighton and Sussex Natural History Society. 



February 9tb. Ordinary Meeting. Mr. F. Merrifield, President, 

 in the chair. — The Secretary of the Eastbourne Natural History 

 Society (the Eev. A. K. Cherrill), and Mr. T. Cui'ties, of 241, High 

 Holborn, London, were elected Honorary Members. 



Mr. Wonfor announced the receipt, from the Secretary of the East- 

 bourne Natural History Society, of copies of papers read at the last 

 two meetings of that Society. The thanks of the Society were passed 

 for the donation. 



Mr. T. Hennah exhibited photographs of parallel cylindi-ical glass 

 rods, rotated over similar parallel rods, to illustrate the effects of 

 illumination. The results were very curious, some exactly resembling 

 the hemispherical markings ascribed to some diatoms, and the " note 

 of admiration " marks of the Podui-a scale. 



Mr. C. Smith then read a paper "On Lichens," in which their nature, 

 the differences between them and Algae on the one hand, and Fungi 

 on the other ; their mode of development, component parts, mode of 

 propagation, their uses and applications, habitats, and other interesting 

 points, were well described ; and illustrated by a large collection of 

 specimens, drawings, and microscopic preparations. 



A vote of thinks was given to Mr. Smith for his paper. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a series of British moths whose larvfe feed 

 on different species of lichens, which many of them resemble in colour 

 and markings. 



February 23rd. Microscopical Meeting. Mr. T. Hennah, Vice- 

 President, in the chair. — Mr. E. Glaisyer announced the receipt for 

 the cabinet of two slides from Mr. Wonfor ; and eighteen slides of 

 vegetable hairs and six illusion photographs, to which reference was 

 made at the last meeting, from Mr. Hennah. 



