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Donations to the Library from February 9tli to Marcb 9tli, 1870 : — 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 101 .. Society. 



Scientific Opinion. Part XVI Editor. 



Quekett on the Microscope, 2Hd Edition Er. Millar. 



Ditto ditto 3rd Edition Ditto. 



Philosophical Transactions for the Years 1813, 1836, 1837, 



1838, and 1843 Bo yal Society. 



Description of the Improved Achromatic Microscope. By W. 



and T. Tulley. 1832 President. 



Eeport of the Committee of the E. A. S. on W. Tulley's ikst 

 large Aciiromatic Telescope, 1828, with an Object-glass 



6-8 inches clear aperture President. 



Eeport from the U. S. Army Medical Department, on the 

 Magnesian and Electric Light for the Pm-poses of Micro- 

 photography Surgeon-Gen, U. S. 



Peter Le Neve Foster, Esq., M.A., was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist. Secretary. 



Quekett Microscopical Club.* 



At the ordinary meeting of the Clnb, held at University College, 

 February 25th, 1870, P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., M.A., President, in 

 the chair, four new members were elected, four gentlemen were 

 proposed for membership, and several presents to the library and 

 cabinet were announced. Mr. M. C. Cooke read the translation of a 

 paper by Monsieur Alphonse de Brebisson, corresponding member of 

 the Club, entitled " Critical Notes upon British and Normandy Dia- 

 toms." The paper was of a technical and critical character, and of 

 much value as bearing upon the question of " new species " of classifi- 

 cation ; upwards of twenty slides in illustration of j)ortions of the 

 paper were presented to the cabinet of the Club. 



Mr. B. T. Lowne made some interesting observations upon the 

 structure of the cornea of the bee, founded upon some recent dissections 

 of the eyes of a large African species of carpenter bee. The Secretary 

 read a short paper descriptive of a nmnber of varieties of Triceratmm, 

 found ujDon a slide prepared from Jutland cement stone, a diagram of 

 the diatoms being exhibited. Some critical remarks upon the paj)er 

 having been offered by Mr. M. C. Cooke, the Secretary announced that 

 ■ Mr. Lowne was about to commence a class for members of the Club 

 Avho were desii'ous of studying microscopic zoology, and the proceed- 

 ings terminated by a conversazione, at which objects of interest were 

 exhibited by Messrs. Brown, Golding, Hainworth, Hislop, and White. 



The annual soiree of the Club was held on March 11th, at Univer- 

 sity College, which was kindly lent for the occasion by the Council. 

 A large number of microscopes were exhibited in the library and 



* Eeport supplied by Mr. E. T. Lewis. 



