Journal 



OF THE 



Royal 

 Microscopical Society; 



CONTAINING ITS TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS, 



AND A SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



(principally Invertebrata and. Gryptogamia), 



IvflllOIiOSOOIP^S', tSsc. LIBRARY 



NEW YORK 



£d^Ud by BOTANICAL 



FRANK CRISP, LL.B., B.A., <iARDEN 



One of the Secretaries of the Society 

 and a Vice-President and Treasurer of the Linnean Society of London ; 



WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE PUBLICATION COMMITTEE AND 



A. W. BENNETT, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S., F. JEFFREY BELL, M.A., F.Z.S,, 



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



JOHN MAYALL, Jun., F.Z.S., FRANK E. BEDDARD, M.A., F.Z.S., 



B. B. WOODWARD, F.G.S., ^ ^ H^BB, M.A., M.D. (C««..^.), 



Librarian, British Museum [Natziral History), 



AND 



J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., 



FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Ser. II.— VOL. V. 



PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY BY 



WILLIAMS & NORGATE, 



LONDON AND EDINBURGH. 

 1885. 



