176 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Dr.'Maddox read a iiaper " Ou Some Unusual Forms of Lactic 

 Ferment (^Bacterium Inciis)." Photographs ( x 460) and drawings, 

 in illustration of the subject, were handed round for examination. 



Mr. C. Thomas's paper, " On a New Species of Acineta" was read, 

 together with a letter from Mr. Badcock, who considered it to be 

 Trichophrya epistijUdis (Clap, and Lach.). 



Mr. Curties exhibited an improved form of Hardy's collecting 

 bottle, in which he had substituted strips of glass at the sides and 

 bottom for those of indiarubber (supra, p. 145). 



Mr. Hardy said that his original idea was to use glass, but he 

 could not get strips of sufficient length. He was very glad to find 

 that Mr. Curties had been successful in the matter, as it could now 

 be proved which was the better material. 



Dr. F. Ritter v. Stein's death was announced, he being one of the 

 Honorary Fellows of the Society, and the author of ' Der Orgauismus 

 der Infusionsthiere.' 



The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited : — 



Mr. C. Beck : — (1) Parsons' battery for working small incan- 

 descence lamps for the Microscope ; (2) Simplified form of Caldwell's 

 Automatic Microtome. 



Mr. Cheshire : — Three slides of Spermatozoa from Qncen Bee, 

 Queen "Wasp and Drone, and one of the muscle of the spermathecal 

 valve. 



Mr. Bolton : — Clava squamata. 



Mr. Crisp : — (1) Gibbes' Membrane-stretcher ; (2) Robinson's 

 " Microscopic Photographic " Camera. 



Mr. Curties:— (1) Abbe Condenser for attachment to English 

 stands ; (2) Hardy's collecting bottle. 



Ur. Van Heurck : — Two photo-negatives of Amphipleura pellucida ; 

 and six slides of his silvered diatoms. 



Mr. Michael : — Two slides of TyroQlijphus Rohini, and Hypopus 

 of T. coriicis. 



Dr. A. Y. Moore : — Slide of A. pellucida silvered by his process. 



Mr. Swift : — Cone Condenser and Achromatized Immersion Para- 

 boloid. 



New Fellows : — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows : — 

 Messrs. T. Theodore Cash, M.D., George C. Karop, M.R.C.S., Henry 

 B. Preston, Edgar Thurston, M.R.C.S., and Joseph H. Wythe, M.D. 



