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large collection he Lad made the previous day in a locality near Chester, to 

 which he had been kindly introduced by Mr. Chautrell, the President of the 

 Liverpool Microscopical Society, as a locality now abounding in a beautiful 

 Rotifer Lacinulnria socialis, and in a variety of fresh-water Polyzoa, of which 

 Mr. Bolton also exhibited some specimens. The next day Mr. Bolton found on 

 the same bit of weed the flower animalcule, fFloscularia cornnta,) another 

 species of Eotifer, and afterwards CeijhaJosiphon liiiuiias, and great numbersof the 

 new collar-bearing flagellate monads, discovered and described by Mr. W. Saville 

 Kent.— September 17th — Microscopical General Meeting. Mr. H. E. Forrest 

 exhibited living specimens of Spirorbis nautiloides, a marine Annelid, showing 

 compound ciliated tentacles, operculum, &c. Mrs. Kobiuson, a lady who has 

 recently returned from India, exhibited and described a very interesting and 

 extensive collection of specimens, consisting of ferns, butterflies, reptiles, &c. — 

 24th September. — Geological Section. Mr. W. R. Hughes, on behalf of Mr. 

 Councillor Pattison, showed interesting specimens of fossil wood and shells from 

 Budleigh Salterton. Mr. W. Giahaui exhibited some specimens of rocks collected 

 during the excursion to Eastnor and Malvern. Mr. S. Allport mentioned that 

 he had prepared a section of one of them, ami it showed that the rock was a fine 

 grained hornblendic rock greatly altered. Mr. W. Graham and Mr. C. Pumphrey 

 communicated an offer made by the Rev. W. G. Symonds of named specimens of 

 the rocks of the Malvern district, for the purpose of microscopical and general 

 examination. The Secretary was directed to accept the olfer with thanks. — 

 General Specimens exhibited by Mr. Levick and Mr. Forrest included 

 (among others) from near Barnt Green : — Lacinularia socialis, Deiidrosoma 

 radians, Chatospira Alidleri, Stephanoceros Eichhornii, and Pohjarthra platy- 

 ptera. By Mr. Slatter, Verbascum Blattaria, the fruit of the cherry laurel. 

 Mr. Southall, Utricularia minor and U. intermedia, the latter being very rare. 

 Mr. Wilkinson showed some monstrosities in radishes. — October 1st. — General 

 Meeting. Mr. Bagnall exhibited some bladders of Utricularia minor, &c. Mr. 

 W. Southall exhibited Fhalaris arundinacea infected by ergot, (Clariceps 

 Ijuipurea.) Mr. S. Allport exhibited specimens of the Malvern rocks, consisting 

 of contorted Mica-schist, hornblendic gneissoid rock, containing bitumen and 

 syenite from the North Hill. Mr. C. T. Parsons exhibited Lycium harbatum in fruit 

 from Alton. Mr. T. Bolton exhibited Fhilodiita roseola with J'rofococcus 

 pluvialis, both in the motile and quiescent state, from Handsworth. Mr. 

 H. E. Forrest exhibited living specimens of Zoothamnium, a lovely species 

 of Vorticella, Stephanoceros Eichhornii, Lacinularia socialis, and other 

 rare Rotifers all on one twig ; also Stentor in the act of self division. 

 — October 8th. — Biological Section. A number of interesting objects 

 were exhibited. These included mounted specimens ot Carchesium jiaii/pinnm, 

 which had been killed by immersion in hot water, contributed by Mr. T. Bolton ; 

 branched colonies of Lininias ceralophi/lli, containing about twenty individuals, 

 shown by Mr. H. E. Forrest ; and a series of microscopic preparations of 

 Utricularia, by Mr. J. E. Bagnall, showing the bladders in situ, and illustrating 

 the structm-e of the valves and of the peculiar quadrilid processes. Mr. Bagnall 

 accompanied the exhibition of his very interesting collection by notes on the 

 geographical distriliution of Utriculariie, and by remarks on the structure 

 and function of the bladders, recording the result of observations many of which 

 were made previous to the publication of Mr. Darwin's researches on the same 

 subject. Mr. A. W. Wills exhibited the rare Rotifer ]t/cUccrta, or more properly 

 (Ecistcs jnlula, which he had sliowu under some disadvantage at a previous 

 meeting, and referred to the classification of the thecated section of the Rotifers 

 proposed by Mr. Cubitt, and to the structure of the genera Melicerta and (Ecistes 

 respectively, as justifying the inclusion of the species now referred to in the 

 latter genus. Also a Rotifer belonging to the same genus, and secreting a large 

 semi-transparent theca, also found in .^uttou Park, and apparently identical with 

 or closely resembling a species described by Mr. Oxley at a recent meeting of 

 the Royal Microscopical Society. As no name appears to have been proposed 

 for this animal, Mr. Wills suggested that it should be called (E. lonf/ij>cs, from 

 the great length of its slender foot. — October 15th. — Microscopical General 

 Meeting. Mr. Bolton exhibited ChatojJiora cndiric/o/ia, one of the fresh- 

 water alga;, sent by Mr. Chantrell, president of tiie Liverpool Microscopical 

 Society. Mr. Simcox exhibited a partition of J\'autilus, oniamented by a native 

 of New Caledonia ; a large caterpillar, found with several others, three feet 

 deep, in a creek near Sydney, N.S.W. ; and a large operculum, and other parts 



