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1^ A special feature of the Journal is the classified Summary it contains 

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

 Botany (^principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), Microscopy, d;c., 

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

 and other Countries. 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



EOYAL MICKOSCOPICAL SOCIETY, 



Containtng: it0 tlTran^action^ anti ^coceetiinffis, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY 



(principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), 



MIOEOSOOPY, &c. 



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 PUBLICATION COMMITTEE AND 



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 ia King's College, 

 S. O. ElDLEY, M.A., of the British Museum, and JoHN Mayall, Jun., 



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 being the Papers read and Reports of the business trans- 

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 (2.) Summary of Current Researches relating to Zoology 

 and Botany (piincipally Invertebrata and OiTptogamia, 

 with the Embryology and Histology of the higher Animals 

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

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