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. Mr. Baker showed a microscope witli a new and convenient 

 horizontal stage-movement, worked by an eccentric disk conveniently 

 situated to be acted upon by the finger. 



Mr. Moginie exhibited a very handy and complete portable 

 travelling microscope. A jjocket microscope was also shown by 

 Mr. Browning, and by Messrs. Murray and Heath. 



Mr. Crouch exhibited a new microscope devised by Mr. Fiddian, 

 one jjeculiarity of which consists in the coarse adjustment being 

 formed by the movable bar being cut with a screw-thread, and worked 

 by a large milled head with a counter-screw. On Mr. Crouch's table 

 there was likewise a modification of Fiddian's lamp, with a chimney 

 of white oj)al glass, having a central opening to receive a disk of 

 white glass. 



Mr. Swift exhibited a Beckett lamp with a cylindrical porcelain 

 shade. 



Mr. Eoss, Messrs. E. and J. Beck, Mr. Ladd, Mr. Browning, 

 Messrs. Murray and Heath, Messrs. Gould and Porter, Messrs. Home 

 and Thornthwaite, Stanley, Swift, Wheeler, Dancer, Winspear, and 

 Bailey, contributed very numerous objects of interest. 



Mr. Norman showed a superb collection of sections of fossiliferous 

 coal, made with unusual skill. 



In an uj)per room a large table was occuj)ied with students' 

 instrimients by various makers, to which prices vv^ere af&xed ranging 

 from 101. downwards. 



In the course of the evening Mr. Browning gave illustrations of 

 spectroscopic phenomena, including recent astronomical researches ; 

 and Mr. How displayed with a gas microscope a series of natural 

 objects, micro-photographs, &c. 



QuEKETT Microscopical Club.* 



At the ordinary meeting held at University College, March 25th, 

 1870, P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., M.A., President, in the chair, four new 

 members were elected, and a nimiber of presents to the library and 

 cabinet were announced. Mr. M. C. Cooke read a paper upon " Micro- 

 scopic Moulds," illustrating the subject by a large number of diagrams 

 and by specimens exhibited under the microscope at the close of the 

 meeting, and a quantity of specimens of several species were placed 

 upon the table for distribution amongst the members. Mr. Edward 

 Eichards exhibited and described his new method of using Barker's 

 selenite films. The President, in reference to the recent soiree, 

 announced that the proceeds of the sale of extra tickets, amounting to 

 5Z. 7s. 6d., had been voted by the committee to the funds of University 

 College Hospital ; and votes of thanks to those members who exhibited 

 objects at the soiree were carried unanimously. The President also 

 announced that the fortnightly field excm-sions of the Club would be 

 resumed in April. Nine gentlemen were proposed for membershij), 

 and the proceedings terminated with a conversazione, at which a 

 nimiber of objects of interest were exhibited. 



* Eeport suiiplicd by Mr. K. T. Lewis. 



