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resembled tlie setee of Actinophrys. The question in both cases was 

 whether they represented animal life as being prolongations from the 

 inner protoplasm. 



Mr. Hardy was glad to be able to corroborate what Mr. Badcock 

 had stated with reference to the cilia upon Surirella, having observed 

 them himself independently on some of the same gathering. He was 

 not able to make out anything like ciliary movement, but should say 

 that they were not of a sarcodic nature. 



Dr. Wallich said there was a complete analogy between the speci- 

 mens now shown and some which he exhibited about twenty years 

 ago, to which he gave the name of Coscinodiscus Sol. He found his 

 specimens in the Indian Ocean, and they were described and figured 

 at the time in the Society's Journal.* In the case of the Keston 

 diatoms, he took them to be Epizoa, and thought that Mr. Hudson, 

 writing from Australia, referred to precisely the same forms ; but 

 they were also distinctly epizootic. In the case before them, there 

 was no question in his mind about their being a portion of the or- 

 ganism itself, there being distinct apertures round the valves from 

 which they were given off. He was now engaged in going over the 

 slides vp-hich he presented to the Society, and found that all these 

 specimens were amongst them still. 



Mr. G. C. Karop remarked on an examination he had recently 

 made of the saliva in a case of hydrophobia. The patient, a boy 12 



Fig. 133. 



years old, had been bitten two months before any symptoms appeared. 

 He was then brought to the Middlesex Hospital, where he died the 



* Trans. Micr. Soc, Lond., I860, Plate II. 



