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received since the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the 

 Society were given to the donors. 



From 

 Van Heurck, Dr. H. — Synopsis des Diatomees de Belgique. 

 Faso. IV. Pseudo-Raphidees. 2« partie. Plates 53'''^ to 

 77. (Anvers, 1881) T/ie Author. 



Mr. Crisp exhibited and described Holmgren's Apparatus for 

 observing the circulation in the lung of a frog, a French Pocket 

 Microscope (see p. 809), Salt's Pocket Microscope (see p. 936), and 

 Watson's Nose-piece for Analyzer, Wenham Prism and Vertical 

 Illuminator, and described Nachet's new Pocket Microscope (lent by 

 Dr. Klein), and Crossley's Microscope with special arrangement for 

 illuminating the swinging substage (see p. 653) (lent by Mr. 

 Crossley). 



The Rev. J. J. Halley, of Melbourne, Vice-President of the 

 Microscopical Society of Victoria, was introduced to the Meeting by 

 the Chairman, and thanked the Fellows for the very cordial welcome 

 which they had just given him as a representative of one of the 

 youngest Microscopical Societies in the world. He had on leaving 

 Australia been asked to thank the Eoyal Microscopical Society for 

 the great kindness done to their local Society in affiliating it to the 

 parent body. It was an act which he could assure them had been 

 highly appreciated, and he trusted that they would be able to show 

 that they were worthy of the honour. 



Mr. Halley then referred to the microscopical work which was being 

 done in the colony of Victoria, mentioning amongst others a mode 

 of making was cells for mounting objects. He said that, of course, 

 there was nothing new in the idea of using wax for this purpose as it 

 had been done over and over again, but as far as this particular 

 method of making cells was concerned he believed it to be new, and 

 it had at any rate the advantage of being simple, easy, and done in a 

 very short time. A mixture of wax and spermaceti (about -^th part of 

 the latter) was placed hot upon the middle of the slide, and the surface 

 having been made perfectly level by passing over it a gauge made of 

 glass, the slide was placed upon the turntable and the cell was turned 

 up out of the solid wax.* He had with him a number of specimens 

 from which the Fellows could judge for themselves as to the extreme 

 neatness of their appearance, and so far as durability went he thought 

 they would be equal to anything hitherto devised ; those which he 

 exhibited had stood the severe test of travelling from Australia, 

 knocking about in his portmanteau, and passing through the Eed 

 Sea in the month of August, which even to an Australian was no joke. 

 Turning to work done in connection with the fauna and flora of the 

 colony, it would easily be imagined that they had a wide field open to 

 them, seeing that their shores were so remarkably rich, particularly 

 in Bryozoa — a term which they had adopted in preference to Polyzoa. 

 Their Secretary, Mr. Goldstein, was himself working out this subject. 



* See this Journal, iii. (1880) p. 860. 

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