The Journal is issued on tlie second Wednesday of 

 February, April, June, August, October, and December. 



%ol.ni. Part 3.1 J^^E. 1883. ^^^Z'^r'^ 



Journal 



OF THE 



Royal 

 Microscopical Society; 



CONTAINING ITS TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



(principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), 



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 THB ASSISTANCE OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE AND 



A. W. BENNETT, M.A., B.Sc, I F. JEFFKEY BELL, M.A., 



Lecturer on Botany at St. Thomases Hospital, \ Professor of Comparative Anatomy in Kin£s College, 



S. O. RIDLEY, M.A., of the British Museum, AND JOHN MAYALL, JuN., 



FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 



LONDON AND EDINBURGH. 



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