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and finer skill, a more artistic feeling, a sterner conscientiousness, has 

 seldom, if ever, been devoted to the work of making the Microscope 

 a thoroughly efficient and trustworthy aid in scientific research. The 

 fortunate owner of one of his fine lenses possesses one of the most 

 exquisite pieces of mechanism ever produced by the mind and hand 

 of man. Mr. ToUes loved his beautiful art. He loved it better than 

 riches ; for he died a poor man. He loved it better than life ; for 

 its pursuit, necessitating the constant inhalation of glass dust, 

 shortened his days. The labours of such a man entitle him to the 

 lasting esteem and gratitude of all lovers of the Microscope, as well 

 as of that field of investigation to which this instrument is the 

 indispensable portal.' " 



Mr. B. W. Thomas's slides of sand obtained by washing clay 

 from the boulder-drift of Meeker county, Minn., U.S.A., were explained 

 by Mr. Crisp. In similar specimens, Professor Leidy had recognized 

 some well-preserved and characteristic Foraminifera, of which two 

 forms appeared identical with Textularia globulosa and Botalia 

 glohulosa, now living in the Atlantic Ocean. The fossils Mr. Thomas 

 supposes to be derived from a soft yellow rock, cretaceous shale and 

 lignite forming part of the drift. He also reports the finding of 

 fragments of marine diatoms in the clay. 



The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited :— 

 Dr. C. H. Golding-Bird :— Microtome. 

 Mr. H. Boecker : — Slides of Bacteria, Bacilli, &c. 

 Mr. Chadwick : — Halecium halecinum, mounted as described ante, 

 p. 151. 



Mr. Cheshire :— Curious form of Spirillum. 

 Mr. Crisp : — 



(1) Old Microscope. 



(2) Eeichert's Microscope, with modified Abbe Condenser. 



(3) Eeichert's Polarization Microscope. 



(4) Griffith's Multiple Eye-piece. 



(5) Glass Frog-plate. 



(6) Getschmann's Slides of arranged Diatoms, &c. 



(7) Bradley's " Mailing Boxes." 



Miss Dancer ; — Objects found in flue-dust and coal-ash. 



Mr. Guimaraens : — The slide of Xanthidium exhibited at the last 

 meeting. 



Mr. A. W. Stokes : — Fish-trough. 



Mr. B. W. Thomas : — The slides mentioned sujpra. 



Dr. G. C. Wallich : — A Eotalian from closed flint nodular cavity 

 metamorphosed into chalcedony. 



New Fellows : — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : — 

 Messrs. Henry W. Fuller, H. A. Johnson, M.D., James C. Stodder,. 

 H. Thomas, M.D., and G. F. Turton. 



