912 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Mr- Geldart, the President of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society, one of the ex-officio Fellows of the Society, was welcomed by 

 the President. 



Mr. Geldait said he was greatly obliged to the Fellows for the 

 welcome given to him, and conld only express the gratification which 

 it afforded him to be present. He also wished to take advantage of 

 the opportunity to thank them, in the name of his Society, for the 

 privilege afforded to them of receiving the Journal of the Society, and 

 profiting by the very admirable summary which it contained of all 

 that was being done in microscopy, both at home and abroad. 



Mr. Geldart then called attention to a slide of Globigerina which 

 he had brought, with all its spines in situ — so unusual an object 

 that it seemed to be worth bringing for exhibition. It was obtained 

 by the ' Challenger.' 



The President inquired whether it came from the surface. 



Mr. Geldart said that this, and, indeed, all those, few in number, 

 which had been obtained, came from the surface. Those brought up 

 from the floor had the spines dragged off by the towing net. He had 

 never seen more than two. 



The President said that in examining some deposits from 14,000 

 feet he found them crammed with Globigerince, amongst which he had 

 the good fortune to find one with spines. He was very glad to 

 have seen this specimen as being an original from the ' Challenger ' 

 expedition. 



The Conversazione was announced for the 6th December. 



The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited: — 



Mr. C. Collins : — Portable Histological Microscope. 



Mr. Crisp: — (1) Guillemare's School Microscope. (2) Abbe's 

 Eefractometer. 



Mr. Curties : — Simple and Dissecting Microscopes by Zeiss. 



Mr. Geldart: — Globigerince. from the ' Challenger.' 



Mr. Groves : — New Ether-freezing Microtome. 



Mr. Joshua : — Triploceras tridentatum (New Zealand Desmid). 



Mr. Kitton : — Five slides of Diatoms from Tasmania,. 



Mr. Krutschnitt : — Six slides of ovaries, &c, of plants. 



Dr. Maddox : — (1) Photographs printed by the platinotype process. 

 (2) Warm and Moist Stages. 



New Fellows : — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : — 

 Messrs. Joseph Ball, Cornelius Van Brunt, Walter A. Dun, George 

 E. Fell, James D. Hardy, David Houston, William A. Lee, Clermont 

 Livingston, George M. Sternberg, and Frederick A. Whaite. 



Walter W. Reeves, 

 Assist. -Secretary. 



