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copy of Grisley’s ‘ Viridarium Lusitanicum,’ 1661, presented by Linnezus 
to his pupil Loefling, the author of the ‘ Iter Hispanicum.’ 
Prof. R. J. Anderson exhibited some photographs of educational museum 
cases in Queen’s College, Galway. 
A paper was read by Mr. Lister on the Myxomycetes, or Mycetozoa, a 
group of organisms on the borderland between the animal and vegetable 
kingdoms, and formerly classed with Fungi. His remarks were illustrated 
by numcrous coloured drawings of representative species, and the author 
exhibited under the microscope the swarm-cells from the spores of 
Amaurochete and the streaming plasmodium of Badhamia. Attention was 
especially directed to the mode of feeding of the swarm-cells, and observations 
made on those of Stemonitis, where large bacilli were seen to be caught by 
pseudopodia projected from the posterior end of the organism, and drawn into 
its substance and digested. An interesting discussion followed, in which the 
President, Prof. Marshall Ward, Prof. Howes, and Mr. Breese took part. 
A paper was then read by Mr. E. W. Hoyle on the deep-water fauna 
of the Firth of Clyde, embodying the result of recent investigations. The 
explored area, which is shut off from the Irish Sea by a submarine plateau 
extending from the Mull of Cantyre to the Ayrshire coast, contains seven 
distinct deep-water basins in which the depth exceeds 20 fathoms, and in 
some cases reaches 80 or 100 fathoms. An account was given of the 
dredging which had been carried on, with lists of the species obtained at 
various depths. A discussion followed, in which Messrs. John Murray, 
W. P. Sladen, and G. B. Howes took part. 
The meeting adjourned to April 18th. 
April 18, 1889.—Mr. Carrutusrs, F'.R.S., President in the chair. 
The Rev. R. Collie was admitted a Fellow of the Society, and Messrs. 
P. Goiffon, T. W. Shore, and R. W. Scully were elected. 
In view of the approaching Anniversary Meeting, the following Auditors 
were appointed :—Dr. J. Anderson and Mr. Jenner Weir for the Council ; 
Mr. T. Christy and Mr. D. Morris for the Fellows. 
The President called attention to a valuable donation of books on 
Fishes, including the celebrated work of Bloch, recently presented to the 
Society’s Library by Mr. Francis Day, C.I.E., F.L.S., who, he regretted to 
say, was lying seriously ill at Cheltenham, upon which a cordial vote of 
sympathy and thanks for the gift was unanimously accorded. 
Mr. J. R. Jackson, Curator of the Museum, Kew Gardens, exhibited 
specimens illustrating the mode of collecting at Ichang, China, the varnish 
obtained from Rhus vermicifera, so largely used by the Chinese and Japanese 
for lacquering. He also exhibited some Chinese candles made from varnish 
seed-oil. 
On behalf of Mr. Henry Hutton, of Kimberley, some photographs were 
