156 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



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



Mr. Boltou : — Pyxicola affinis and Eiujlena oxyuris. 



Mr. Crisi^ : — (1) Improved Griffith Club Microscope. (2) Hart- 

 nack's (or Kecklinghausen's) Demonstration Microscope. (3) Martens' 

 Ball-jointed Microscope. 



Mr. Dowdeswell : —Section of lung of septicaBmic mouse. 



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

 Messrs. W. M. Bale, Abraham D. Baleu, Walter H. Bulloch, C. E. 

 Hanauian, J. Satchill Hopkins, J.P., William C. Ondaatje, L.M.S. 

 Bang., C. H. Stearn, John L. Wall, and David Welsh. 



CONVEBSAZIONB. 



The first Conversazione of the Session was held on the 6th 

 December last in the Libraries of King's Coll ege, when the following 

 objects, &c., were exhibited : — 



Mr. Baker : 



Zeiss's Small Dissecting Stand, with Compound Objective, Large 

 Dissecting Microscope, and Travelling Microscope. 



Hartnack's Histological Microscope. 



Arranged Tests (Pleurosigma) in balsam. 

 Mr. Badcock : 



Episfylis with Flagellata, and Lojohopus crystallinus. 

 Mr. F. P. Balkwill : 



200 Foraminifera arranged and named on one slide. 

 Mr. Blackburn : 



Cast skins of nymph and sub-imago of Heptagenia longicauda, one 

 of the Ephemeridse. 

 Messrs. E. and J. Beck : 



New Petrological Microscope, and Bacilli in lung of cow. 

 Mr. W. G. Cocks : 



Hydra imlgaris developing winter eggs. 



Pencil Tails (Polyxenus lagurus) and Volvox globator. 

 Mr. A. C. Cole : 



Sporocarp of Pilularia glohulifera in section. 

 Mr. Creese : 



Pitcher of Nepenthes distillatoria showing acid glands. 

 Mr. F. Crisp : 



Slides illustrating the views of Drs. Loew and Bokorny on the 

 chemical difference between dead and living protoplasm. 

 Mr. Curties : 



Nvtamia hursaria polarized. 

 Mr. Dowdeswell : 



Nerve-fibre, showing the reticulated structure of the sheath. 

 Mr. Enock : 



Tinqis hystricellus from Ceylon, and Hgematopinus siiis. 

 Mr. F. 'Fitch : 



Reproductive organs of a bee. 



