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liquid ; (2) irregularly shaped gelatinous patches, of yellow and orange 

 colour — few and in masses ; (3) round, clear corpuscles. When the 

 solution evaporates, these assume an elliptic form, the minor axis 

 being disproportionately short. Most of these corpuscles had the 

 Brownian movement when examined. 



Mr. White inquired whether anything had been done in reference 

 to the complaints made at the Eochester meeting of the American 

 Society of Microscopists, of discrepancies in the gauges for the Society 

 screw. 



Mr. Crisp said that all that was known on the subject was what 

 was recorded in the American Society's Proceedings.* No com- 

 munication had up to the present time been received by this Society 

 on the subject. It would no doubt come as soon as their friends on 

 the other side were ready to make it, and in anticipation the Council 

 had appointed a committee consisting of Mr. J. Beck, Mr. J. Mayall, 

 jun,, Mr. Bevington, and the Secretaries, to deal with any communi- 

 cation that might be received during the recess. 



Mr. G. Massee's paper on " New British Micro-fungi " was read, in 

 which he described five new species. 



Mr, W. B. Turner's letter was read, describing a method of stain- 

 ing desmids without contraction of the endochrome {swpra, p. 742). 



The President announced that in consequence of the illness of 

 the Librarian, the library would not be opened on Wednesday even- 

 ings for the present, and also that the library would in future be 

 closed for four weeks, commencing from the Monday preceding the 

 second Wednesday in August, instead of from the 1st August. The 

 latter change was desirable in order to facilitate the issue of the 

 August number of the Journal. 



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



Mr. Crisp : — Theiler's Universal Pocket Microscope. 



Mr. J. Mayall, jun. : — Nobert's 19-band plate mounted in Smith's 

 medium. 



Prof. W. A. Rogers : — Slides showing action of a diamond in ruling 

 lines upon glass. 



Mr. Sharp: — Proboscis of blow-fly mounted in biniodide of mercury. 



Prof. Stewart : — Slides and model of eyes of Chitonidae. 



Mr. Suffolk : — Collecting bottle with flat sides. 



Mr. Waters : — Slides illustrating his paper. 



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

 (At the May meeting) Mr. Samuel R. Hallam. (At the June meeting) 

 Messrs. Frederick H. Baker, Conrad Beck, and Rev. John More 



Gordon. 



* Proc. Amer. Soc. Micr., 1884, pp. 1-53-9. 



