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intestine. These growths were made up of connective 

 tissue containing- a very large number of connective-tissue 

 cells, some of these cells being- apparently proliferating-. 

 No evidence of neuroma or of connection with nerve 

 fibres were- found. Sections of the tumor tissues were 

 exhibited under the microscope at New York Pathological 

 Society, May 10, 1899. 



MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETIES. 



Royal Microscopical Society. — At the last meeting, Mr. 

 E. M. Nelson, the president, exhibited an old >^in. objec- 

 tive, made by Andrew Ross, which had been presented to 

 the Society by the Master of the Rolls. It was a very rare 

 form of objective, constructed probably about the year 

 1838, and possessed a very primitive form of lens ajust- 

 ment. A special interest was attached to it because it for- 

 mally belonged to the father of the donor. Prof. John Lind- 

 ley, the second president of the society (1842-1843). The 

 president also exhibited a new coarse adjustment which 

 Messrs. Watson had made in accordance with a suggestion 

 contained in his paper, read before the society in March 

 last. It showed that, with a loose pinion, it was possible to 

 have a rack coarse adjustment that would work without 

 "loss of time." A paper by Mr. Jas. Yate Johnson, enti- 

 tled "Notes of Some Sponges Belonging to the Clionidae, 

 obtained at Madeira,'' was taken as read. Six slides of 

 speculae, &c., in illustration of the paper were exhibited 

 under microscopes. The President called the attention of 

 the Fellows present to an exhibition by Mr. Beck of parts 

 of various wildflowers shown with low powers. This was 

 the last meeting of the session, and the president an- 

 nounced that the first meeting- after the vacation would be 

 on October 18. 



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