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JOURNAL 



^OF THE 



EOYAL MICEOSCOPICAL SOCIETY, 



Containino; it0 Cran^actiotiiS anti ^roteeUmffjS, 



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 OP THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE AND 



A. W. Bennett, M.A., B.So., J F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., 



Lecturer on Botany at St. Thomas's Hospital, | Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College, 



S. O. ElDLEY, M. A., of the British Museum, and JOHN MaYALL, Jun., 



FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETT. 



This Journal is published bi-montlily, on the second Wednesday of the 

 months of Febmary, April, June, August, October, and December, It 

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

 9 sheets (144 pp.) with Plates and Woodcuts as required. The price to 

 non-Fellows is 58. per Number. 



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 

 observations or discussions on the subjects brought 

 forward. 

 (2.) Summary of Current Researches relating to Zoology 

 and Botany (principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia, 

 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. 



Authors of Papers printed in the Transactions are entitled to 20 copies 

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

 12s. M. per half-sheet of 8 pages, or less, including cover, for a minimum 

 number of 100 copies, and 6s. 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. 



Published for the Society by 

 WILLIAMS AND NOKGATE, 



LONSON and EDINBURGH. 



