168 HOBSON, ON INDIAN DESMIDEZ. 
having no tangible existence independent of ourselves were 
it not for the glorious hope that all nature is full of forces 
equally grand, forces which we have not the power of per- 
ceiving, but which, with a higher development of our organ- 
ism, may be sweet as music and genial as sunshine. 
(In acceding to the request of the Newcastle Microscopical 
Society, that I would allow the preceding paper to be pub- 
lished, I think it but justice to myself, as well as to my 
readers, to state that it was written with the expectation of 
its being heard only by personal acquaintances; and its 
object was not so much to establish any new facts, as to 
draw attention to, and stimulate thought upon, a few com- 
monplace phenomena and observations. 
The former circumstance must be my apology for the 
colloquial style in which it is written ; and the latter cireum- 
stance will, I hope, excuse the free use I make of speculation 
and queries. It was not necessary for my purpose that 
speculations should. be well considered, so long as they were 
suggestive of interesting considerations. | 
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Notes on Inp1AN Desmipex. By Jurtran Hozson, Bombay 
Staff Corps, Mahabuleshwar. 
T rorwarp for publication two drawings of a Micrasterias 
and of a species of Docidium, to- 
gether with a description of the 
latter. They are, I think, new 
species. The Micrasterias appears 
to be something allied to M. 
Baileyi, Ralfs (pl. xxv, ‘ Suppl.’), 
but that form is not in the least 
serrated. The Docidium, in some 
degree, resembles the one figured 
in the same plate, but the teeth 
in the form I propose calling D. 
pristide are very acute, and the 
terminal processes differ greatly. 
These two species are very com- 
mon here, but nowhere else in 
the Bombay Presidency have I come across them. I have 
< 350 diam. 
