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with distilled water and filtered while hot, a little salt was added, 
and after some hours largish globules were deposited, and no needles.” 
This is clearly an anticipation of experiment 6 on urate of am- 
monia, and of the general principle of many others. 
I think it right to draw attention to these experiments, first in 
justice to Dr. Bence Jones’s most valuable work ; second, in order to 
point out the remarkable agreement of these experiments with my 
own, although the two sets of experiments were undertaken with 
different objects, and certainly lead to different thought and applica- 
tion ; third, in order to clear myself from any charge of intentional 
plagiarism. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
W. M. Ord. 
Carpenter on the Microscope. 
To the Editor of the ‘ Monthly Microscopical Journal 
March 13, 1875. 
Sir, — Mr. Stodder has called my attention to an error in p. 213 of 
the above work, where Mr. Tolies is spoken of as having made the 
-jRth objective, so highly commended by Dr. Woodward. This glass 
was made by Mr. Wales. 
The binocular eye-piece ascribed to Professor H. L. Smith should 
have been placed to the credit of Mr. Tolies. 
Your obedient servant, 
Henry J. Slack. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
PiOyal Microscopical Society. 
King’s College, April 7, 1875. 
H. C. Sorby, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
A list of donations to the Society was read by the Secretary, and 
the thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 
The Secretary said that a very important paper had been received, 
entitled “ Further Researches into the Life History of the Monads,” 
by the Rev. W. H. Dallinger and Dr. Drysdale, in which they con- 
tinued the subject treated in their previous papers, and gave a complete 
life history of a new species found by them in a maceration of cod’s 
head. Other engagements would not permit of the paper being read 
that evening in extenso, and therefore after briefly alluding to its con- 
tents, he proposed that it should be taken as read ; it would then be 
