^JouSll.'^in"!'??™'?'] PKOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 55 



Spectra Bands." By Alfred Sanders, M.E.C.S., F.E.M.S., " On an 

 Undescribed Stage of Development of Tetrarhynchis Corallatus." 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet from November lOth to 



December Stb, 1869 :— 



From 



Land and "Water. Weekly Editor. 



Scientific Opinion. Weekly Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Eoyal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Vol. III. . . Society. 



Proceedings of tlie Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 18G8 Academy. 



The Chemical News. 3 Parts W. T. Suffolk, Esq. 



A Keade's Prism The President. 



A Brewster's Hemispherical Prism The President. 



The " Finder," recommended by a Committee of this Society, 

 described in vol. v., p. 95. of the ' Quarterly Joiu-nal of 



Microscopical Science.' 1868 Dr. Millar. 



Mr. Wenham's original Silvered Parabola, made by Smith and 



Beck in 1850 Dr. Millar. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 



Ezra Thomas Downes, Esq. 



F. G. Mountford, Esq. 



William Kutherford, M.D., Professor of Physiology in 



King's College, London. 

 F. H. Ward, Esq., M.E.C.S. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist. -Secretary J ^c. 



QUEKETT MiCKOSCOPICAL ClUB.* 



At the ordinary meeting held at University College, October 22, 

 P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., M.A., President, in the chair, — five new 

 members were elected ; four gentlemen were proposed for member- 

 ship ; several presents to the library were announced, and fifty-three 

 slides were presented to the cabinet, for which the thanks of the 

 club were returned. Mr. B. T. Lowne, M.E.C.S., read a paj)er " On 

 the Aid derivable from the Microscope in the Classification of 

 Animals," observing in his introductory remarks that although the 

 microscoj)e had been of great advantage to the naturalist in cases 

 where the animals were too small for unaided vision, and had been 

 of still greater service in determining observations upon embryology, 

 showing to us the distinctive modes of segmentation in vertebrate and 

 invertebrate animals, he should not touch uj^on these points, but 

 should rather treat of the ultimate histological structure of animals 

 as an aid to classification. After briefly noticing the Amoeba as the 

 simplest form of animal, consisting merely of a mass of sarcode 

 without histological structure, the author observed that rising in the 

 scale we next found the integument hardened and becoming the fii'st 

 form of a cell. Of this the Gregarina was taken as an examj)le, its 

 appearance was described and illustrated, and its resemblance to an 

 * Keport supplied by Mr. K. T. Lewis. 



