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Mr. Howse said, having re-examined many specimens, he was now 

 quite of Mr. Slack's opinion in reference to the supposed fungus. 



Mr. Slack said he had suggested that probably the treatment with 

 potash was the reason that there was the fungoid appearance. The 

 best way to view such things is in their natural state. 



Mr. Howse had treated them with potash that he might see whether 

 the bodies were outside or inside ; they seemed below the cuticle. 



Mr. Slack said the little globes are above the cuticle in its natural 

 state, but if the cuticle was swollen by chemical means they might 

 appear inside. 



Dr. Braithwaite thought that Mr. Slack was quite correct in the 

 inference he had drawn. The Coleus plants expelled a foetid odour 

 something like the Lamium, and the yellow glands might evolve it. 



Mr. Slack said in reference to Podisoma he had noticed a curious 

 appearance in one of his slides, in which he had put by a portion 

 of the gelatinous matter that he had alluded to without any prepara- 

 tion whatever, just to keep it free from dust in a perfectly natural 

 state ; when it began soon to develop one of the moulds. The same 

 form of mould grew upon a specimen which he had kept upon a 

 parchment paper and rice paste. It exhibited little black globes at the 

 tips of white threads. When the black globes were squeezed they 

 broke up into a number of little spherules which acted as spherical 

 lenses. When aggregated together, these highly-refractive bodies pre- 

 sented an appearance like a black pin's head. 



The meeting then adjourned to the 1st of May. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet, from March 6th to April 

 3rd, 1872 :— 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly The Editor. 



Nature. Weekly Ditto. 



Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly The Society. 



Journalof the Quekett Club, No. 18 , The Cluh. 



Journal of the London Institution, No. 13 The Imtitutinti. 



Two Slides of Battledore Scales Dr. J. Anthony. 



Twelve Slides of Podura Scales S. J. Mclntire. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 



B. D. Jackson, Esq. 

 Francis Fowke, Esq. 



Walter W. Eeevbs, 



Assist. -Secretary. 



