208 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY ~~ [July 
MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. 
QUEKETT MicroscopicaL CLuB.—The 388th meeting 
was held on Friday, June 21.. Amongst the additions to 
the library announced was a bound copy of Mr. E. M. 
Nelson’s collected papers on microscopy and optics, pre- 
sented by the author, for which a very cordial vote of 
thanks was passed. Mr. T. J. Davis exhibited a new cov- 
er-glass holder he had devised mainly for use in bacteri- 
ology. Mr. John Shephard, of Victoria, gave a most in- 
teresting account of the pond-life in that colony, so far as 
it had been investigated, and pointed to the extreme ra- 
pidity of development after the rainy season set in. He 
exhibited a new Brachionus under the microscope, and 
also, preserved in tubes, large colonies of Lacinularia 
striolata, etc., Lepidurus australis, and other forms, Prof. 
Hartog described the pecular method of feeding in the 
common Daphnia, and a successful way of staining and 
preserving translucent organisms like Branchipus in par- 
affin, Mr. R. T. Lewis read a further note on Ixodes re- 
duvius, and exhibited a stained preparation of the sper- 
matozoa. Mr. Walter Wesché read a short paper on a 
new male rotifier, Metopidia solidus, accompanied by 
drawings. A preliminary paper on the ‘Microscopic 
Structure of Metals and Alloys,” by Mr. Sidney Smith, 
was read. Votes of thanks were passed for these several 
communications, and the proceedings terminated. The 
The informal meetings of the club for conversation and 
the exhibition of objects will be held on the first and third 
Fridays in July, August, and September. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
“The Microscopy of the More Commonly Occurring 
Starches.” By Professor Hugh Galt. (Bailliere, Tindall 
& Cox.) Illustrated. This is an unpretentious little vol- 
