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can give when requested by postal card, has undertaken 
to reprint volumes I-V, which alone are out of print, so 
as to sell complete sets for $125. provided a certain num- 
ber of orders appear. Kuetzing’s unique work is the 
greatest in existence on this subject and is indispensable 
for the study of sea-weeds. Our readers should seek to 
influence wealthy libraries in the U.S., to supply our 
country with at least a few copies,—especially the Bos- 
ton Society of Natural History ; the Astor Library, New 
York ; the Congressional Library, Washington ; the Lloyd 
Library, Cincinnati; the Chicago University; the Me- 
chanics Institute Library, San Francisco; the Carnegie 
Library, Pittsburg; the Fish Commission, Washington, » 
D. C., etc. We will receive the orders for it in America. 
MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. 
QUEKETT MicroscoPicaL CLuB.—The 387th meeting 
was held on Friday, May 17. Among the donations an- 
nounced was one of 51 mounted specimens of Rotifers, 
presented by Mr. ©. Rousselet, for which a special vote of 
thanks was passed. The collection of these organisms 
now in the club’s cabinets amounts to 250, and, as type 
specimens, are invaluable for study. Mr. Massee gave a 
description of the life-history of several new fungi be- 
longing to the Laboulbeniacesw, recently discovered by 
Dr. Thaxter, U.S. A. They are mostly found growing 
on aquatic larva, chiefly coleopterous. The affinities of 
this group, especially in their reproductive organs, with 
the red alge, was pointed out and iliustrated by anumber 
of colored diagrams. The meeting then resolved into the 
usual conversazione, at which several interesting living 
organisms were shown, including Stephanoceros, Vorti- 
cella, Volvox, and others. 
The Club contains 340 members of whom A.’M. Ed- 
wards, M. D., and Prof. H. L. Smith, of Hobart College, 
