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PKOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



EoYAL Microscopical Society. 



King's College, November 4, 1874. 



Charles Brooke, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 

 ■ The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



A number of donations to the Society were announced, and the 

 thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 



The Secretary said that Mr. Suffolk, a Fellow of the Society, had 

 presented them with an ingenious little apparatus, known as me- 

 chanical fingers, and which had been modelled after the plan of 

 Professor Smith. 



The President observed that it was for the purpose of picking up 

 minute objects, such as diatoms, by means of a bristle held by some 

 forceps. It was a very ingenious contrivance, and was worth the 

 examination of the Fellows. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Suffolk was imanimously passed. 



The President announced that the Council purposed holding 

 another scientific evening on Wednesday, December 9 ; this arrange- 

 ment was of course subject to the consent of the authorities of King's 

 College,* and due notice would be sent to all the Fellows of the 

 Society in the usual way. 



The Secretary said they had received a paper " On Microscopical 

 Leaf Fungi from the Himalayas," by Dr. Joseph Fleming. The paper 

 and the drawings which accompanied it had been shown to Mr. Cooke, 

 who had found amongst them a number of genera and species which 

 were apparently identical with European species. The paper was one 

 which he thought would be more interesting to Fellows when they 

 could read it for themselves ; he would therefore only mention the 

 fungi discovered. It would be printed in full in the Journal, with 

 the di*a wings and the remarks of Mr. Cooke upon them. The paper 

 will be found at p. 270. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. Fleming and 

 Mr. Cooke. 



The Secretary then read a paper by Dr. Drysdale and the Eev. 

 W. H. Dallinger, entitled " Continued Researches into the Life His- 

 tory of the Monads." The paper was illustrated by numerous 

 drawings, which were enlarged upon the black-board by Mr. Charles 

 Stewart. The paper will be found at p. 261. 



The President, in proposing a vote of thanks to the authors of the 

 paper, remarked that there were several points in it which were 



* Since obtained. 



