476 PROCEEDINGS OP THE SOCIETY. 



Mr. B. W. Priest : 



Statoblasts of Fresh-water Sponge, showing tubes and processes. 

 Ml-. J. W. Eeed: 



Spicular cells in cortical portion of stem of Araucaria Bidwillii 

 and A. excelsa. 

 Mr. S. O. Eidley : 



Chsetopodous annelid. 

 Mr. G. Smith : 



Nephiline dolerite, pitchstone, &c. 

 Messrs. Swift and Son : 



Eggs of parasite of goose. 

 Mr. W. A. Thoms. 



Potato disease : sclerotia of Peronospora infestans, as seen on the 

 under side of mature leaf of potato, both ungerminated and 

 germinated. 

 Mr. A. Topping : 



Larva of bot-fly, pupa of black ant in the cocoon, &c. 

 Mr. H. Waddington : 



Melicerta ringens and Stentor. 



Meeting of 9th May, 1883, at King's College, Strand, W.C. 

 Dr. E. Braithwaite, F.L.S. (Vice-President), in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the meeting of 11th April last were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges) received since 

 the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the Society given 

 to the donors. 



From 

 Dodel-Port, A. & C. — Anatomisch-pbysiologischer Atlas der 



Bot.anik. Part 7 The Authors. 



Cobbold, T. S. — The Internal Parasites of our Domesticated 



Animals, iv. and 144 pp., 28 figs. (8vo, London, 1873.) 

 Gray, H. — Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical. 5th ed. by T. 



Holmes, exxx. and 768 pp., 395 figs. (8vo, London, 1869) Mr. Crisp. 

 Micrographic Dictionary. 4th ed., Parts xvi.-xxi Ilr. Van Voorst. 



The Chairman said they were favoured that evening by the presence 

 of Mr. Eomyn Hitchcock, of New York, and he invited that gentleman 

 to address the meeting. 



Mr. Hitchcock said he regretted that he did not know in time that 

 he was coming to England, or he would have brought some instru- 

 ments for exhibition. Taking, however, just what he had in hand, he 

 would exhibit two pieces of apparatus which he thought might be of 

 interest. The first was Grunow's camera lucida, and the other a 

 detaching nose-piece (Pease's "Facility" nose-piece) for ra^ndly 



