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Mr. Crisp remarked that though there was no place for lenses, yet there 

 was an eye-piece guard to keep the dust out. 



Mr. J. Beck said he had been examining the Microscope, and he could 

 only say that he thought it a great libel upon the Japanese to attribute 

 such a thing as that to them — a bogus Microscope. He could only suppose 

 that it wa& the work of some amateur who got some Japanese rings of inlaid 

 copper, and made the rest himself. Any one had only to look at the 

 so-called fitting of the tube — which was no fit at all — to see the class of 

 work, and for his part he did not believe it was Japanese work at all; 

 there was English milling on the pillars. He had a large number of 

 Japanese instruments, the workmanship of which was as fine as anything 

 produced here. 



Mr. Mayall said it would be folly to declare without actual knowledge 

 that it was Japanese work, but it was quite certain that it was obtained from 

 Tokio, and that it came direct here from Yokohama. Probably milling 

 tools of English manufacture might have been used, as many other kinds 

 of tools were used in Japan, and the ornamentation was undoubtedly 

 Japanese work. 



Mr. Deby said that many scientific instruments of English make were 

 sent out to Japan, and he remembered seeing on one occasion 64 first-class 

 Microscopes sent there by order of the agent of the Japanese Govern- 

 ment. If, therefore, the people were well acquainted with Microscopes 

 made by Mr. Beck and others here, it would be useless for any one there to 

 produce such a one as that upon the table, as they would be quite certain 

 that no one would purchase it. 



Dr. Maddox's paper ' On the Different Tissues found in the Muscles of 

 a Mummy ' was read by Mr. Crisp, Dr. Maddox being unfortunately still 

 unable to attend the meetings of the Society. 



Prof. Bell said it was exceedingly interesting to find that a people 

 who were so despised at the present time had succeeded in preserving the 

 tissues of the body in this very remarkable way. 



Prof. Bell gave an account of a recent visit which he had paid to 

 M. Pasteur's laboratory in Paris. 



The President felt sure that the Eellows were very much obliged to 

 Prof. Bell for the very interesting account which he had given them, and 

 for which their thanks were due. 



Mr. Deby called attention to a series of double-stained sections of the 

 rare parasitical plant Brugmansia Lowii, one of the Eafflesiese, but differing 

 in its being hermaphrodite. It grows on the overground roots of a species 

 of Cissus, and was collected by him in 1884 in the Earitan range of 

 mountains in Central West Sumatra, The sections show the development 

 of the plant from the time it begins to raise the bark of its host as a 

 minute tubercle up to the complete maturity of the ovules. The double- 

 staining allows of distinguishing the limits between the tissues of the 

 parasite and of its host, which on unstained sections cannot bo determined. 



