370 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



event of the past year was the attenJancc of a deputation at tlio 

 meeting of the American Society of Microscopists at Rochester, N.Y. 

 The friendly and cordial reception of the deputation was warmly 

 acknowledged by the Society at their October meeting, and leaves 

 nothing to be said here beyond formally placing on record in this 

 Report, the gratification with which all classes of tlie Fellows have 

 regarded the fraternal greeting given to the Society by their American 

 felluw-workcrs. 



MEExrsG OF 11th March, 1885, at Kino's College, Strand, W.C, 

 THE President (the Rev. Db, Dallingeb, F.R.S.) in the Chaib. 



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

 confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



The List of Donations (exclusive of exchanges and reprints) 

 received since the last meeting was submitted, and the thanks of the 

 Society given to the donors. 



6 Slides : — Head of Honey Bee — A. melUfica (1 slide Queen, From 



1 Worker, and 1 Drone j ; Head of Ground Bee — Panunjus 

 Banksiawts ; Head of Wild Bee — Andrena fulca ; and Head 



of Wasp — Vespa vul'i'tris Mr. F. Enock. 



3 Slides of Diatoms mounted in Balsam of Tola Mr. F. Kitton. 



Hardy's Collecting Bottle with Improved Stopper . . . . Mr. Curties. 



Mr. Crisp said that, while it was not usual to look too closely at a 

 donation, it was necessary to warn microscopists against the use of 

 Mr. Curties' so-called improvement, which consisted in substituting 

 for the original iudiarubber stopper a rectangular one of glass, which 

 was greased in order to make it water-tight. The nuisance in the 

 field of a collecting bottle with a greased stopper was sufficiently 

 obvious. 



Mr. Hardy disclaimed any responsibility for the change that had 

 been made. 



Mr. Crisp exhibited (1) Wiukel's Class Microscope with movable 

 stage, (2) Tolles' Clinical Microscope, (3) KliJnne and Miiller's Port- 

 able Microscope, and (4j Swift's Microscojie for Examination of 

 Disease in Skin of Sheep, and having a very long working distance, 

 (5) Griffith's and Bertrand's Objective Adapters, and (6) a new form 

 of " Finder." 



Mr. H. G. Madan exhibited some new kinds of glass, having found 

 that a combination of ordinary blue glass with a peculiar bluish-green 

 glass, know^n as " signal-green " glass, was much more convenient 

 than the usual glass cell filled with solution of cuprammonium 

 sulphate (supra, p. 327). 



Mr. Baker exhibited some object-boxes in book form for placing 

 on a shelf with books, the objects then lying flat. 



