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}^ A special feature of the Journal is the classified Summary it contaim 

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

 Botany (^principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), Microscopy, dc, 

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

 and other Countries. 



' JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, 



Containiuo: it0 ^ratisfactionsf anti pcoceetiing:0, 



A5D A STJMMAKY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTAFT 



(principally Invertebrata and Crsrptogamia), 



MIGEOSCOPT, &c. 



Edited by 



Frank Crisp, LL.B., B.A., 



one of the Secretaries of the Society and a Vice-President of the Linnean Society 



of London ; 



WITH THE ASSIflTAKCB OF THE PUBLICATION CtoMKITTEE ANT) 



A. "W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc, I F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., 



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

 S. 0. Ridley, M.A., of the British Museum, and JoHN Mayall, Jun., 



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