210 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Presented by 
Mikroskopische Studien aus dem Gebiete der mensch- 
lichen Morphologie von J. Gerlach : . Ditto. 
F. C. S. Roper, on the Genus Licmophora (Paper) . The Author. 
Intellectual Observer, Nos. 15 and 16 . The Kditor. 
Popular Science Review, No.7. , . Ditto. 
Photographic Journal, No.131 —. ‘ . Ditto. 
Journal of Photography, Nos. 186 to 189. Ditto. 
Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. XXIV, Part 1 ‘The Society. 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Nos. 64and65 Purchased. 
Six Slides of Sulphate of Cadminm G. Norman, Esq. 
Two Slides—ZJsthmiu enervis, Triceratium arcticum . C. Baker, Esq. 
Two Slides—Liemophora flabellata, Lic. splendida . eC: Roper, Esq. 
June 10th. 
Planta Cryptogamica da ordem dos cogumelos do genero 
Aspergillus, especie Glaucus, Dr. Carlos May Figueira The Author. 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 74 . The Society. 
Proceedings of the Linnean Society, No, 26 . . Ditto. 
Tntellectual Observer, No 17 : a . The Editor. 
Photographic Journal, No. 133. : . Ditto. 
Journal of Photography, Nos. 190 and 191 . . Ditto. 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, No. 66 Purchased. 
Nine Slides—Zoophytes from Australian Alege (3), 
Isthmia enervis (2), Licmophora flabellata, Meridion 
circulare, Rhabdonema arcuatum (2) ; J. Stainton, Esq. 
W. G. Sidi Curator. 
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL Society, MANCHESTER. 
MICROSCOPICAL SECTION, 
March 16th, 1863. 
Mr. JosepH SIDEBOTHAM, Vice-President of the Section, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. Watson presented specimens of Jungermannia tomentella 
and asplenoides, collected on Baguley Moor. 
Mr. Sidebotham presented specimens of the following mosses, in 
fruit: —Fissidens exilis, F. adiantoides, Grimmia pulvinata, Weissia 
controversa, Bryum atropurpureum, &e., in a good state for micro- 
scopical examination. 
Mr. J. G. Dale, F.C.S., presented a specimen of crystallized film 
of picrate of aniline ; and in a note to the secretary explained his 
method of preparation from picric acid and aniline. ‘The equiva- 
lent of picric acid is 229; that of aniline is 93; and when dissolved 
in strong alcohol in those proportions by weight, mixed and set 
