296 PROCEEDINGS OF 80CIETIES. 



aflSrmed, were common to the species of which he submitted a drawing, 

 while the non-detection of vibratile cilia by Mr. Barrett he attributed 

 to the insufliciency of magnifying power, or inadequacy of the means 

 of illumination he had employed. 



Mr. T. Charters White, in answer to a question from Mr. Slack, said 

 he had once seen a stentor as large as that described by Mr. Barrett, 

 but he could not say that it was identically the same ; in length it 

 occupied the whole w^idth of the field of the microscope, when examined 

 with a |rd of Smith and Beck's, and was abundantly supplied with cilia ; 

 it had a mucous agglomeration about its foot something like Tuhicularia, 

 into which it retreated if the stage of the microscope was struck. 



The President announced that at the next meeting Dr. Carruthers 

 would continue his description of the " Fossils of the Coal Measures," 

 and that a communication would be read from Mr. J. Bell, " On Fer- 

 mentation and its results." 



The meeting was then adjourned to the 6 th day of December next. 



Mr. Joseph Beck stated that a note referring to him in the last 

 number of the Journal was founded on misapprehension of what he 

 had said. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet, from Oct. 4th to Nov. 1st, 



1871 :— From 



Land and Water. Weekly The Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Athenaeum. Weekly W. W. B. 



Physical Optics. By Thomas Exley, A.M., 1834 . . . . Dr. Millar. 

 Annual Report of the Comniisi^ioner of Patents for the 



year 1868. 4 Vols. Washington, 1869 U. Stated Patent Office. 



Journal of the Linnean Sofiety, No. 53 Society. 



Popular Science Review, No. 41 Editor. 



Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Vol. V Royal Society. 



Three Photographs of Degeeria domestica, as seen with 



Wenham'.-s Black-ground Illumination. By Dr. J. J. 



Woodward, U. S. Army Author. 



Two Speriinens of Micro-ruling on Glass. By John S. 



Staiiistreet, Esq Ditto. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 



Thomas Armstrong, Esq. 

 John Sumsion Townsend, Esq. 

 John Cretney Sigsworth, Esq. 

 Joseph Needham, Esq. 

 Frederick John Marriott, Esq. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist, -Secretary. 



CORRECTIONS TO VOL. V. 



Page 152, bottom line, for prevent, read present. 



„ 154, line 4 from bottom, for Joseph Beck read Richard Beck. 



„ 155, „ 12, /or coin, reac? cam. 



„ „ „ 14, /or develops, re«d depresses. 



„ „ J, 17, for coin, read cam. 



