72 E. KELLY MAXWELL ON MICROSCOPIST DURING WARTIME. 



least, standing out from all the tangled experiences of the dire 

 years of war. The horses stamping and champing in the gloomy 

 forge while I toiled like Vulcan to get the rivet out of the 

 dividers— the first glimpse of my friend at the beautiful flower- 

 like polype, outside our tent on the hill-side, with the most 

 wonderful nightingale in France in full song a few yards away — 

 the shy little French girl clutching at her mother's skirt after 

 peeping into the magic tube — the gallant men from London and 

 Peru, Panama and Bonnie Scotland, who formed the delightful 

 " Royal Society " on the little French hill-side. 



Note. — The specimens exhibited at the reading of the paper 

 were some of the polyparies mentioned, viz. : 



Hydrallmania falcata (Lin.). 

 Ahietinaria ahietina (Lin.) 

 Idmonea serpens (Lin.). 

 Sertularia operculata. 

 Ohelia (? species). 



and the mycetozoa collected in the little wood, viz. : 



Badhamia utricularis (from the log at my billet). 

 Arcyria denudata. 



Trichia inconspicua (var. contorta) (possibly also afftnis). 

 Physarum pocillum. 



I gladly take this opportunity of expressing my indebtedness 

 to the President, Dr. Rendle, F.R.S., for getting the zoophytes 

 named for me at very short notice, and to Mr. Hilton for revising 

 the nomenclature of my specimens of mycetozoa. 



Journ. Qvckell .Microscopical CM, Scr. 2, Vol X!V., No. 85, Soiemher 1919. 



