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1^ A gpecial feature of the Journal i$ the classified Summary it containi 

 of the work of British and Foreign Observers relating to Zoology and 

 Botany (^principally Invertebrata and Oryptogamia), Microscopy, <fc., 

 as appearing in the principal Journals, Transactions, dc, of this 

 and other Countries. 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



EOYAL MICKOSCOPICAL SOCIETY, 



Contaiuinff it0 '(Ican^actiongf antJ |9roceeliing0, 



AND A SUMilARY OF CLTIRENT RESEARCHES BEIATtNa TO 



ZOOLOGY AIH) BOTANY 



(Principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), 



mCEOSOOPY, &c. 



Edited by 

 Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A,, F.L.S., 



one of the Secretaries of the Society ; 



WITH THE ASSI8TANCK 

 OP THE PCBLICATIOX CoirMITTEE, ASD OP 



A. W. Bennett, M.A., B.So., I F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., 



Lecturer on Botany at St Thomas's Hospital, | Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's CoDegt^ 

 S. O. Ridley, M.A., of the British Museum, and John Mayall, Jun., 



FELLOWS OP THB SOCIETT. 



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 months of February, April, June, August, October, and December. It 

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(1.) The Transactions and the Proceedings of the Society r- 

 being tbe Papei-s read and Reports of the business trans- 

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 fonvard. 



(2.) Summary of Current Researches relating to Zoology' 

 and Botany (principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia, 

 with the Embryology and Histology of the liigher Animals ; 

 and Plants), and mcroscopy (properly so called) : being, 

 abstracts of or extracts fi'om tie more important of the 

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