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Journal 



OF THE 



Royal 

 Microscopical Society; 



CONTAINING ITS TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



zoonioG-"3r -a-istid b o t .a. isr "sr 



(principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), 



Edited by 



FRANK CRISP, LL.B., B.A., 



One of the Secretaries of the Society 

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



WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE PaBLICATION COMMITTEE AND 



A. W. BENNETT, M.A., B.Sc, I F. JEFFKEY BELL, M.A^ 



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



S. O. RIDLEY, II.A., of the British Mmeitm, AND JOHN MAYALL, Jun., 



FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 



LONDON AND EDINBURGH. S^V 



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