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under tlie microscope by tlie following gentlemen ; the most striking 

 were by — 



Mr. Hennah, Mnium cuspidatum, hermaphrodite flowers, showing 

 archegonia, anthridea, and paraphytes ; Mnium Hornum and Polytri- 

 chum communed showing ^ flowers ; Neckera oligocarpa, $ flowers, 

 consisting of archegonia and paraphytes. 



Mr. Smith, Cindidium stijgium, with cupiliform peristome ; Cerato- 

 don purpureus, peristome with divided teeth ; section of leaf of Poly- 

 trichum formosum, covered with papillfe ; Epliemerum servatum, with 

 pro-thallus and young buds. 



Mr. Sewell, Pottia cavifolia, section of leaf exhibiting layers; 

 OrthotricJmm Lyellii, with confervoid gemmae on the leaves ; this is 

 the Conferva castanea of the early botanists. 



Mr. Wonfor, Aidacomnion androgyum, showing gemmfe in pseudo- 

 podia ; Ullota pliyllantha, with gemmse on the tij^s of the leaves, and 

 forming aggregated cells ; and Tetraphis pellucida, in which the gemmae 

 were enclosed in a lenticular bud. 



The State Microscopical Society of Illinois. 

 October Meetings. 



Regular meeting, Friday, the 1st. James V. Z. Blaney, Esq., M.D., 

 Vice-President, in the chair. — Twelve members present. Visitors : 

 A. A. Starr, of New York ; Aldrich, of Marshallton, Iowa ; Dr. Boyd. 

 Correspondence : From Christopher Johnston, Esq., M.D., University 

 of Maryland ; Wm. B. Carpenter, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., University of 

 Loudon ; J. B. Dancer, Esq., Manchester, England ; Thomas Eoss, 

 Esq., Messrs. R. and J. Beck, and Messrs. Powell and Lealand, 

 London ; and Messrs. Field and Co., Birmingham, England. Dona- 

 tions : From Samuel Highlcy, Esq., F.G.S., London ; Lieut.-Colonel 

 Woodward, M.D., Army Medical Museum, War Dejiartment, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; W. H. Walmsley, Esq., Philadelphia. Five new mem- 

 bers proposed. Exhibited — By Starr : Living Animalculoe. Blaney : 

 Crystals of Citric, tartaric, and oxalic acid. Boerlin : Field's Society 

 of Ai'ts Prize School and Student's Microscopes ; also, the Child's 

 Microscope, by the same maker. 



Regular meeting, Friday, the 8th. James V. Z. Blaney, Esq., 

 M.D., Vice-President, in the chair. — Nineteen members present. Five 

 new members elected. Thirteen new members proposed. Dr. Blaney 

 gave a brief and interesting account of the Spectroscope, its construc- 

 tion, uses, and importance to science, illustrating the several topics by 

 exhibiting the instrument in working order. 



Regular meeting, Friday, the 15th. Joseph T. Ryerson, Esq., in 

 the chair. — Seventeen members present. Visitor : Mr. George Cook, 

 of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Thirteen new members elected. 

 Walter Hay, Esq., M.D., read a paper " On the Adulteration of 

 Coffee," showing the enormous extent and character of the frauds 

 practised upon the public in this dej)artment of trade. 



Regular meeting, Friday, the 22ud. Chas. G. Smith, Esq., M.D., 

 in the chair. — Fifteen members present. One new member proposed. 



