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the glass, which was so far apart from the plant. The phenomenoa 

 can also be well observed in plants Fetjatella conica, Corda. 



Bulbochcete minor, Prings., exhibited in fruit (^mid-ivinter). — Mr. 

 Archer showed examples in various more or less developed and 

 nearly perfect fruit of Bulbochcete minor, Pringsheim, possibly 

 possessing an additional interest as being taken in fruit in midwinter. 

 The commencing formation of the oogonia and variously advanced 

 stages were well seen, also of the antheridia. The fully- formed 

 oogonia showed the characteristic longitudinal ribs ; further, what 

 seemed to be a new character was noticeable in some empty speci- 

 mens, that these ribs were connected by numerous transverse, though 

 delicate, lines, giving a scalariform appearance. 



East Kent Natceal Histoet Society. 



Sonorary Secretary, Geoe&e Gullivee, I'.H.S. 



October 2nd, 1873. 



Crystals in Leguminous Plants.— The Hon. Sec. exhibited 

 drawings and preparations, and gave practical demonstrations in 

 the fresh plants, of the crystals of oxalate of lime which he had 

 discovered in the leaves, pods, liber, and other parts of Legu- 

 minosae, since illustrated by a plate in the December number of 

 the 'Monthly Microscopical Journal.' These crystals, mostly 

 belonging to one or the other of the prismatic systems, he calls 

 short prismatic crystals, thus distinguishing them from raphides, 

 sphseraphides, long crystal prisms, or other forms of plant-crystals. 

 The short prismatic crystals resemble those in the testa of the 

 elm, described and figured in last July number of the ' Quarterly 

 Journal of Microscopical Science,' and are about g^ono^^ ^^ '^'^ 

 inch in diameter, and occur very abundantly in chains of cells 

 along the fibro-vascular bundles of the leaves, calyx, and pods, 

 and also scattered throughout many membranous parts. In one 

 inch of one vein of a single leaflet of clover he counted no less than 

 17,500 of the short prismatic crystals ; and his lecture was con- 

 cluded by observations on the significance of these crystals in the 

 economy of animals and plants. 



Dentate Scales of Pleuronectidce. — Mr. Hayward showed some 

 prepared slides of the notched scales (ctenoid) of the sole, being 

 a good example, conLrary to the rule, of this form of scale in 

 soft-finned fish. 



November 6th, 1873. 



The late Major William Augustus Munn. — Referring to the 

 recent death of this eminent apiarian, and the loss which his 

 widow aTid family and entomological science had sustained thereby, 

 a motion expressive of the sympathy and regret of the society, of 

 which he had long been a most valuable member, was unanimously 

 carried. 



