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suggest that the difficulty met with as to the feet might be got over 

 by feeding the insects through a gi-ating. 



Mr. Michael thought it would be much more difficult to feed flies 

 in this way than bees, on uccouut of the very different structure and 

 length of their tongues. 



Mr. Groves suggested that it might be useful to place a cover-glass 

 over the preparation, having a small hole in the middle. 



Mr. Crisp exhibited one of Messrs. Beck's new pasteboard boxes 

 to hold 300 slides (a7ite, p. 910). He had found them very convenient 

 for storing long series of slides, such as diatoms, micro-fungi, 

 minerals, &c. 



Mr. Groves said that though not a very new suggestion it was 

 a very useful one. He had had some half dozen of them in use for 

 years. 



Dr. Anthony feared the material of which the case was made was 

 too slight for the purpose, so that if pressure was exerted the flexure 

 would give space enough for the slides to override each other and 

 knock the cover -glass off. 



Mr. Groves said he had never found this to occur in practice ; 

 indeed, he often used two of the trays — without the box — to carry 

 slides about in, and he put them under his arm without ever finding 

 they got displaced. 



Mr. Crisp said they had received six slides of material taken from 

 the intestines of Lieut. Kisslingbury, U.S.N., one of t'lc victims of 

 the unfortunate Greeley Arctic Expedition. When the question of 

 cannibalism was being discussed, his body was exhumed, and a good 

 deal of the flesh was found to have been cut off the bones. In order 

 to ascertain if possible what was the last food of which the deceased 

 had partaken, and to establish whether the officers had joined in the 

 cannibalism of the men, the contents of the stomach were submitted 

 for examination. The letter of Mr. C. E. Ailing accompanying the 

 slides (which were sent by Dr. Mandeville and himself) was read to 

 the meeting. 



Mr. Groves said that although it might be possible to say from an 

 examination of these slides whether the material consisted of the 

 flesh f)f a mammal, a bird, or a fish, it would be quite impossible to 

 say if it was human flesh or not, unless it happened that a large 

 quantity of hair had been taken with it. 



Mr. Crisp said th:it he had submitted the matter to Prof. Stewart, 

 the Conservator of the Museum of the Royal Ctdhige of Surgeons, 

 who had given him the same opinion as Mr. Groves, adding only 

 that a means of identification might be found in the small hairs of 

 the general surface of the body. Ho (Mr. Crisp) had examined the 

 slides, but could find no trace of hairs. 



Mr. D. P. Penhallow's note was read as to a handle for cover- 

 glasses, as follows : — 



"In the August number of the Journal (p. 753) Mr. Cheshire 

 mentions the use of a semicircular disc of wax, somewhat smaller 



