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 JOURNAL 



OF THE 



EOYAL MICEOSCOPICAL SOCIETY, 



Containing it0 '^can^action^ anti ^roctetiing:^, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CUERENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY 



(principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), 



mOEOSOOPY, &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 in King's College, 



S. O. Ridley, M.A., of the British Museum, and John SIayall, Jun,, 



FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETr, 



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 months of Febiiiaiy, April, June, August, October, and December. It 

 varies in size, according to convenience, but does not contain less than 

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The Journal comprises : 



(1.) The Transactions and the Proceedings of the Society : 

 being the Papers read and Reports of the business trans- 

 acted at the Meetings of the Society, including any 

 obsei-vations or discussions on the subjects brought 

 forward. 



(2.) Summary of Current Researches relating to Zoology 

 and Botany (pi-incipally Invertebrata and Ciyptogamia, 

 with the Embryology and Histology of the higher Animals 

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

 abstracts of or extracts from the more important of the 

 articles relating to the above subjects contained in the 

 various British and Foreign Journals, Transactions, &c., 

 from time to time added to the Library. 



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 of their communications gratis. Extra copies can be had at the price of 

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 number of 100 copies, and 66. per 100 plates, if plain. Prepayment by 

 P.0.0. is requested. 



All communications as to the Journal should be addressed to the 

 Editor, Koyal Microscopical Society, King's College, Strand, W.C. 



Puhlishedfor the Society hy 

 WILLIAMS AND NORGATE, 



LONDON AND EDINBURGH. 



