The Journal is issued on the second Wednesday of 

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



A Ser. II. 



Vol. V. Part 5. 



OCTOBER, 1885. 



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Journal 



OF THE 



Royal 

 Microscopical Society; 



CONTAINING ITS TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



(principally Invertebrata and Oryptogamia), 



Edited by 



PRANK CRISP, LL.B., B.A., 



One of the Secretaries of the Society 

 and a Vice-President atid Treasurer of the Linnean Society of London ; 



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