The Journal is issued on the second Wednesday of 

 February, April, June, August, October, and December. 



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i Vol'lV^Parte. DECEMBER, 1884. f°S£:f^r''^ 



Journal 



OF THE 



Royal 

 Microscopical Society; 



CONTAINING ITS TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



ZOOXjOGJ-^ST J^l^JD BOT.A.3Sr"2' 



(principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), 



Ediie<i by 



FRANK CRISP, LL.B., B.A., 



One of the Secretariis of the Society 

 and a VUe-Praident and Treasurer of the Linnean Society oj London ; 



WITH THK ASSISTANCE OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE AND 



A. W. BENNETT, M.A., B.Sc, j F. JEFFREY BELL, M.A., 



Lecturer on Botany at St. Thomas's Hospital, \ Professor of Comparative Anatomy in Kin^t College 



S. O. RIDLEY, M.A., of the British Museum, JOHN MAYALL, JuK., 

 AND FRANK E. BEDDARD, M.A., 



FELLOWS OF TilE SOCIETY. 



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WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 



LONDON AND EDINBURGH. 



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U, r;V WM. CLOWES AND bONS, LIMniSt.,] [STAMFORD iTREET AND CHARING CROSS. 



